Cataclismo vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
274.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Cataclismo
2.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Cataclismo
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
448.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Cataclismo
7 years apart
Cataclismo
2025 · Simulation
- Reviews
- 4,161
- Positive
- 89%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 229K
- Net rev
- $3.9M
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 Cataclismo, 16 only on Rust.
Only Cataclismo
StrategyBase-BuildingRTSCity BuilderGrand StrategyTacticalManagementModdableHistorical4XSingleplayerWarResource ManagementEconomyReplay ValueReal-Time with Pause
Shared
SimulationBuildingSandboxOpen World
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen 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
vv1.0137K to 320K
units (median: 229K)
≈ $2.4M to $5.5M 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)
How comparison pages work
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