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Loop Hero vs Slay the Spire

Reviews on Steam

Slay the Spire

4.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Slay the Spire

5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Loop Hero

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Slay the Spire

4.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Loop Hero

2 years apart

A

Loop Hero

2021 · Roguelike Deckbuilder

Four Quarters · Devolver Digital

Reviews
50,000
Positive
91%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
gamemaker_studio_2
Sales (median)
3.8M
Net rev
$32.1M
B

Slay the Spire

2019 · Roguelike Deckbuilder

Mega Crit · self-published

Reviews
200,000
Positive
96%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
libgdx
Sales (median)
16.0M
Net rev
$228.4M

Tag overlap

50% shared — 2 shared tags, 2 only on Loop Hero, 2 only on Slay the Spire.

Only Loop Hero

Auto BattlerPixel Graphics

Shared

RoguelikeDeckbuilder

Only Slay the Spire

Card GameTurn-Based

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

vv1.0

2.3M5.3M

units (median: 3.8M)

$19.3M$45.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.3Mmedian5.3M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

9.6M22.4M

units (median: 16.0M)

$137.0M$319.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

9.6Mmedian22.4M

How comparison pages work

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