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Rain World vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

20.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

4.4pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

19.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rain World

1 years apart

A

Rain World

2017 · Action

Videocult · Akupara Games

Reviews
42,258
Positive
94%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
4.0M
Net rev
$57.3M
B

Stardew Valley

2016 · Indie

ConcernedApe · ConcernedApe

Reviews
868,743
Positive
98%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
78.2M
Net rev
$669.5M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Rain World, 13 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Rain World

DifficultAtmosphericSurvivalExplorationPlatformerPost-apocalypticAdventure2D PlatformerSurvival HorrorMetroidvaniaPhysicsSouls-likeAction

Shared

IndiePixel Graphics2DOpen WorldCuteSingleplayerSimulation

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureCraftingSandboxBuildingCasualDating SimGreat SoundtrackFishing

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

2.4M to 5.6M

units (median: 4.0M)

$34.4M to $80.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.4Mmedian5.6M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

46.9M to 109.5M

units (median: 78.2M)

$401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

46.9Mmedian109.5M

How comparison pages work

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