Terraria vs The Long Dark
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
11.0× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
8.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Terraria
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
9.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Long Dark
6 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 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
60% shared , 12 shared tags, 8 only on Terraria, 8 only on The Long Dark.
Only Terraria
2DMultiplayerPixel GraphicsBuildingOnline Co-OpRPGReplay ValuePlatformer
Shared
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalAdventureCraftingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldIndieActionSingleplayerAtmospheric
Only The Long Dark
First-PersonSimulationPost-apocalypticWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorStrategyDifficultEarly 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
vv1.062.1M to 144.8M
units (median: 103.4M)
≈ $354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.06.6M to 15.4M
units (median: 11.0M)
≈ $75.5M to $176.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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