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Ancient Cities vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

536.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

23.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Ancient Cities

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

1072.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Ancient Cities

5 years apart

A

Ancient Cities

2023 · Indie

Uncasual Games · Uncasual Games

Reviews
2,127
Positive
63%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
96K
Net rev
$1.6M
B

Rust

2018 · Action

Facepunch Studios · Facepunch Studios

Reviews
1,140,437
Positive
87%
Launch price
$39.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
102.6M
Net rev
$2344.5M

Tag overlap

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Ancient Cities, 16 only on Rust.

Only Ancient Cities

StrategyCity BuilderHistoricalRelaxingImmersive SimModdableProcedural GenerationCozyBase-BuildingColony SimRealisticEconomyManagementResource Management3DSingleplayer

Shared

SurvivalBuildingSimulationSandbox

Only Rust

CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpIndiePost-apocalypticEarly Access

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

57K to 134K

units (median: 96K)

≈ $984K to $2.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

57Kmedian134K

Sales estimate

vv1.0

61.6M to 143.7M

units (median: 102.6M)

≈ $1406.7M to $3282.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

61.6Mmedian143.7M

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