Stranded Deep vs The Long Dark
Reviews on Steam
The Long Dark
2.5× more reviews
Critical reception
The Long Dark
14.7pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
The Long Dark
4.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Stranded Deep
5 years apart
Stranded Deep
2022 · Adventure
Beam Team Games · Beam Team Publishing
- Reviews
- 43,247
- Positive
- 74%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 2.6M
- Net rev
- $29.6M
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
80% shared , 16 shared tags, 4 only on Stranded Deep, 4 only on The Long Dark.
Only Stranded Deep
MultiplayerRealisticBuildingUnderwater
Shared
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldCraftingFirst-PersonAdventureExplorationSingleplayerCo-opSandboxSimulationEarly AccessActionAtmosphericIndieStrategy
Only The Long Dark
Post-apocalypticWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorDifficult
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
vv1.01.6M to 3.6M
units (median: 2.6M)
≈ $17.8M to $41.5M 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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