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SpaceEngine vs Stardew Valley

Reviews on Steam

Stardew Valley

55.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Stardew Valley

2.4pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stardew Valley

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Stardew Valley

76.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

SpaceEngine

3 years apart

A

SpaceEngine

2019 · Casual

Cosmographic Software · Cosmographic Software

Reviews
15,694
Positive
96%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.0M
Net rev
$17.5M
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 SpaceEngine, 13 only on Stardew Valley.

Only SpaceEngine

Early AccessSci-fiSpaceSpace SimFlight3DScienceRealisticColorfulEducationAtmosphericFuturisticProcedural Generation

Shared

Open WorldCasualSandboxSimulationRelaxingIndieSingleplayer

Only Stardew Valley

Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGAgricultureCraftingBuilding2DDating 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

612K to 1.4M

units (median: 1.0M)

$10.5M to $24.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

612Kmedian1.4M

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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