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Terraria vs Valheim

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

2.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

3.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Terraria

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

4.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Valheim

15 years apart

A
T

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,247,686
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
106.1M
Net rev
$605.2M
B
V

Valheim

2026 · Action

Iron Gate AB · Coffee Stain Publishing

Reviews
475,018
Positive
93%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
26.1M
Net rev
$447.5M

Tag overlap

70% shared , 14 shared tags, 6 only on Terraria, 6 only on Valheim.

Only Terraria

2DPixel GraphicsRPGReplay ValuePlatformerAtmospheric

Shared

Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalMultiplayerAdventureCraftingBuildingExplorationCo-opOpen WorldOnline Co-OpIndieActionSingleplayer

Only Valheim

Base-BuildingDifficultMythologyPvEThird PersonEarly Access

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

63.6M to 148.5M

units (median: 106.1M)

≈ $363.1M to $847.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

63.6M median 148.5M
+ How is this calculated?
1,247,686 reviews × NB(85) = 106,053,310 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2011 +30
price_$10 -5
positive_97% +10
final NB 85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

15.7M to 36.6M

units (median: 26.1M)

≈ $268.5M to $626.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

15.7M median 36.6M
+ How is this calculated?
475,018 reviews × NB(55) = 26,125,990 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2026 -10
price_$30 +5
positive_93% +10
final NB 55

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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