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Captain of Industry vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

104.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Captain of Industry

3.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Captain of Industry

$5.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

125.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Captain of Industry

4 years apart

A

Captain of Industry

2022 · Indie

MaFi Games · MaFi Games

Reviews
10,949
Positive
90%
Launch price
$34.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
821K
Net rev
$16.4M
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 Captain of Industry, 16 only on Rust.

Only Captain of Industry

Base-BuildingAutomationResource ManagementManagementEconomyMiningCity BuilderColony SimStrategyRealisticTransportationLogicSingleplayerAgriculture3DModdable

Shared

SimulationSurvivalBuildingEarly Access

Only Rust

CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpIndiePost-apocalyptic

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

493K to 1.1M

units (median: 821K)

≈ $9.8M to $23.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

493Kmedian1.1M

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

How comparison pages work

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