Terraria vs The Isle
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
11.7× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
17.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Terraria
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
12.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Isle
4 years apart
Terraria
2011 · Action
- Reviews
- 1,216,769
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 103.4M
- Net rev
- $590.2M
The Isle
2015 · Action
Afterthought LLC · Afterthought LLC
- Reviews
- 104,281
- Positive
- 80%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 8.3M
- Net rev
- $95.3M
Tag overlap
45% shared , 9 shared tags, 11 only on Terraria, 11 only on The Isle.
Only Terraria
Open World Survival Craft2DPixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingExplorationOnline Co-OpSingleplayerReplay ValuePlatformerAtmospheric
Shared
SandboxSurvivalMultiplayerAdventureCo-opOpen WorldIndieActionRPG
Only The Isle
DinosaursSimulationHuntingRealisticMassively MultiplayerEarly AccessThird PersonHorrorWalking SimulatorTeam-BasedStrategy
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
vv1.062.1M to 144.8M
units (median: 103.4M)
≈ $354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.05.0M to 11.7M
units (median: 8.3M)
≈ $57.2M to $133.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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