Stardew Valley vs Styx: Master of Shadows
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
75.0× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
15.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
84.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Stardew Valley
2 years apart
Stardew Valley
2016 · Indie
- Reviews
- 868,743
- Positive
- 98%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 78.2M
- Net rev
- $669.5M
Styx: Master of Shadows
2014 · Action
Cyanide Studio · Cyanide Studio
- Reviews
- 11,581
- Positive
- 83%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 926K
- Net rev
- $10.6M
Tag overlap
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Stardew Valley, 14 only on Styx: Master of Shadows.
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsLife SimRelaxingAgricultureSimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingCasual2DDating SimCuteFishing
Shared
MultiplayerRPGIndieSingleplayerOpen WorldGreat Soundtrack
Only Styx: Master of Shadows
StealthActionAdventureAtmosphericViolentStory RichThird PersonAssassinParkourDark FantasyFantasySteampunkMagicDifficult
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
vv1.046.9M to 109.5M
units (median: 78.2M)
≈ $401.7M to $937.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.0556K to 1.3M
units (median: 926K)
≈ $6.3M to $14.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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