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Call of the Sea vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

186.8× more reviews

Critical reception

Call of the Sea

0.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Call of the Sea

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

197.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Call of the Sea

2 years apart

A

Call of the Sea

2020 · Adventure

Out of the Blue Games · Raw Fury

Reviews
6,105
Positive
88%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
519K
Net rev
$5.9M
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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Call of the Sea, 17 only on Rust.

Only Call of the Sea

PuzzleStory RichFemale ProtagonistLovecraftianAtmosphericMysteryExplorationCasualColorfulSingleplayerInvestigationNarrationWalking SimulatorHistoricalSurrealEmotional3D

Shared

AdventureFirst-PersonIndie

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-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

311K to 726K

units (median: 519K)

$3.6M to $8.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

311Kmedian726K

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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