Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
32.3× more reviews
Critical reception
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
8.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
36.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
3 years apart
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
2021 · Racing
- Reviews
- 35,274
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 2.8M
- Net rev
- $40.3M
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
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Car Mechanic Simulator 2021, 14 only on Rust.
Only Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
Automobile SimRealisticModdableDrivingRacing3DSingleplayerEducationImmersive SimPuzzleAtmosphericMinigamesVRStrategy
Shared
SimulationSandboxFirst-PersonOpen WorldAdventureIndie
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-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
vv1.01.7M to 4.0M
units (median: 2.8M)
≈ $24.2M to $56.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.061.6M to 143.7M
units (median: 102.6M)
≈ $1406.7M to $3282.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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