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Bloons TD 5 vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

96.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Bloons TD 5

7.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Bloons TD 5

$30.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

101.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

4 years apart

A

Bloons TD 5

2014 · Action

Ninja Kiwi · Ninja Kiwi

Reviews
11,861
Positive
95%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.0M
Net rev
$5.8M
B

Rust

2018 · Action

Facepunch Studios · Facepunch Studios

Reviews
1,140,888
Positive
87%
Launch price
$39.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
102.7M
Net rev
$2345.4M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Bloons TD 5, 13 only on Rust.

Only Bloons TD 5

Tower DefenseStrategyFamily FriendlyCasualSingleplayer2DFunnyColorfulReplay ValueGreat SoundtrackDifficultCuteRelaxing

Shared

Co-opActionMultiplayerOnline Co-OpSandboxSurvivalIndie

Only Rust

CraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation

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

605K to 1.4M

units (median: 1.0M)

$3.5M to $8.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

605Kmedian1.4M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

61.6M to 143.8M

units (median: 102.7M)

$1407.3M to $3283.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

61.6Mmedian143.8M

How comparison pages work

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