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Stranded Deep vs The Long Dark

Reviews on Steam

The Long Dark

2.6× more reviews

Critical reception

The Long Dark

14.8pp gap

Estimated sales (median)

The Long Dark

4.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stranded Deep

5 years apart

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Stranded Deep

2022 · Adventure

Beam Team Games · Beam Team Publishing

Reviews
43,449
Positive
74%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
2.6M
Net rev
$29.8M
B
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The Long Dark

2017 · Adventure

Hinterland Studio Inc. · Hinterland Studio Inc.

Reviews
110,972
Positive
89%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
11.1M
Net rev
$126.7M

Tag overlap

80% shared , 16 shared tags, 4 only on Stranded Deep, 4 only on The Long Dark.

Only Stranded Deep

MultiplayerRealisticBuildingUnderwater

Shared

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldCraftingFirst-PersonAdventureExplorationSingleplayerCo-opSandboxSimulationEarly AccessActionAtmosphericIndieStrategy

Only The Long Dark

Post-apocalypticWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorDifficult

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

1.6M to 3.6M

units (median: 2.6M)

≈ $17.9M to $41.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.6M median 3.6M
+ How is this calculated?
43,449 reviews × NB(60) = 2,606,940 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2022 0
price_$20 0
positive_74% 0
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 60

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

6.7M to 15.5M

units (median: 11.1M)

≈ $76.0M to $177.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.7M median 15.5M
+ How is this calculated?
110,972 reviews × NB(100) = 11,097,200 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2017 +30
price_$20 0
positive_89% +10
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 100

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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