Stranded Deep vs The Forest

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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

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The Forest

2018 · Action

Endnight Games Ltd · Endnight Games Ltd

Reviews: 577,971
Positive: 96%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 43.3M
Net rev: $495.0M

Tag overlap

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

Only Stranded Deep

MultiplayerCo-opUnderwater Strategy

Shared

Open World Survival Craft Survival Open World Crafting First-Person Adventure Exploration RealisticSingleplayerBuilding Sandbox SimulationEarly AccessActionAtmosphericIndie

Only The Forest

Horror Survival Horror Gore Zombies

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

26.0M to 60.7M

units (median: 43.3M)

≈ $297.0M to $692.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

26.0M median 60.7M

+ How is this calculated?

577,971 reviews × NB(75) = 43,347,825 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_96%	+10
final NB	75

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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