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Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

22.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

19.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

36.4× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm

7 years apart

A

Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm

2023 · Simulation

Toxic Dog · Excalibur Games

Reviews
39,017
Positive
79%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
2.1M
Net rev
$30.6M
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

40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm, 12 only on Stardew Valley.

Only Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm

Online Co-OpFarmingJob SimulatorCo-opRealisticHuntingManagementEconomyTradingDestructionImmersive SimFirst-Person

Shared

SimulationMultiplayerOpen WorldFarming SimSandboxSingleplayerRelaxingIndie

Only Stardew Valley

Pixel GraphicsLife SimRPGAgricultureCraftingBuildingCasual2DDating SimCuteGreat 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

1.3M to 3.0M

units (median: 2.1M)

$18.4M to $42.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.3Mmedian3.0M

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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