Terraria vs The Sapling
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
640.7× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
7.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Terraria
$8.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
726.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Sapling
8 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 Sapling
2019 · Simulation
- Reviews
- 1,899
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $17.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 142K
- Net rev
- $1.5M
Tag overlap
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Terraria, 14 only on The Sapling.
Only Terraria
Open World Survival Craft2DMultiplayerAdventurePixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOnline Co-OpActionRPGReplay ValuePlatformer
Shared
SandboxSurvivalOpen WorldIndieSingleplayerAtmospheric
Only The Sapling
Life SimScienceGod GameNatureArtificial IntelligenceProcedural GenerationSimulationDinosaursAliensEducationRelaxingCasualEarly AccessShort
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
vv1.085K to 199K
units (median: 142K)
≈ $878K to $2.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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