Starbound vs Terraria: sales & reviews compared

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Starbound

2016 · Action

Chucklefish · Chucklefish

Reviews: 120,658
Positive: 90%
Launch price: $14.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 10.9M
Net rev: $93.0M

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Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews: 1,247,686
Positive: 97%
Launch price: $9.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 106.1M
Net rev: $605.2M

Tag overlap

85% shared , 17 shared tags, 3 only on Starbound, 3 only on Terraria.

Only Starbound

Space Relaxing Sci-fi

Shared

Open World Survival Craft Sandbox Survival Adventure Crafting Pixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpMultiplayerOpen World ExplorationIndie2DAction BuildingCo-opRPGAtmospheric

Only Terraria

SingleplayerReplay Value Platformer

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.5M to 15.2M

units (median: 10.9M)

≈ $55.8M to $130.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.5M median 15.2M

+ How is this calculated?

120,658 reviews × NB(90) = 10,859,220 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$15	0
positive_90%	+10
final NB	90

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

63.6M to 148.5M

units (median: 106.1M)

≈ $363.1M to $847.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

63.6M median 148.5M

+ How is this calculated?

1,247,686 reviews × NB(85) = 106,053,310 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2011	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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