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Starbound vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

10.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

7.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

9.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Starbound

5 years apart

A

Starbound

2016 · Action

Chucklefish · Chucklefish

Reviews
120,582
Positive
90%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
10.9M
Net rev
$92.9M
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

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

Only Starbound

SpaceRelaxingSci-fi

Shared

Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpMultiplayerOpen WorldExplorationIndie2DActionBuildingCo-opRPGAtmospheric

Only Terraria

SingleplayerReplay ValuePlatformer

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

6.5M to 15.2M

units (median: 10.9M)

≈ $55.8M to $130.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

6.5Mmedian15.2M

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

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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