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RimWorld vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

6.0× more reviews

Critical reception

RimWorld

0.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

5.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

RimWorld

7 years apart

A

RimWorld

2018 · Indie

Ludeon Studios · Ludeon Studios

Reviews
203,546
Positive
98%
Launch price
$34.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
18.3M
Net rev
$366.1M
B

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,216,769
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
103.4M
Net rev
$590.2M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on RimWorld, 13 only on Terraria.

Only RimWorld

Colony SimBase-BuildingStrategyManagementSimulationModdableCity BuilderProcedural GenerationSci-fiSpaceTactical RPGCartoonyWestern

Shared

SurvivalSandboxBuildingSingleplayerOpen World2DIndie

Only Terraria

Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerAdventurePixel GraphicsCraftingExplorationCo-opOnline Co-OpActionRPGReplay ValuePlatformerAtmospheric

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

11.0M to 25.6M

units (median: 18.3M)

$219.7M to $512.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

11.0Mmedian25.6M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

62.1M to 144.8M

units (median: 103.4M)

$354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

62.1Mmedian144.8M

How comparison pages work

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