Stardew Valley vs The Long Dark
Reviews on Steam
Stardew Valley
7.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Stardew Valley
9.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stardew Valley
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Stardew Valley
7.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Long Dark
1 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
The Long Dark
2017 · Adventure
Hinterland Studio Inc. · Hinterland Studio Inc.
- Reviews
- 110,190
- Positive
- 89%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 11.0M
- Net rev
- $125.8M
Tag overlap
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Stardew Valley, 14 only on The Long Dark.
Only Stardew Valley
Farming SimPixel GraphicsMultiplayerLife SimRPGRelaxingAgricultureBuildingCasual2DDating SimCuteGreat SoundtrackFishing
Shared
SimulationCraftingSandboxIndieSingleplayerOpen World
Only The Long Dark
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftExplorationAtmosphericFirst-PersonAdventurePost-apocalypticWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorStrategyDifficultCo-opActionEarly Access
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
vv1.06.6M to 15.4M
units (median: 11.0M)
≈ $75.5M to $176.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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