Terraria vs The Witness
Reviews on Steam
Terraria
72.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Terraria
12.9pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Terraria
$30.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Terraria
59.0× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Witness
5 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 Witness
2016 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 16,694
- Positive
- 84%
- Launch price
- $39.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.8M
- Net rev
- $40.0M
Tag overlap
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Terraria, 14 only on The Witness.
Only Terraria
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival2DMultiplayerPixel GraphicsCraftingBuildingCo-opOnline Co-OpActionRPGReplay ValuePlatformer
Shared
AdventureExplorationOpen WorldIndieSingleplayerAtmospheric
Only The Witness
PuzzleFirst-PersonColorfulDifficultWalking SimulatorMysteryNonlinearPhilosophicalRelaxingSurrealCasualGreat SoundtrackStory RichBeautiful
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
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $24.0M to $56.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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