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Contraband Police vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

47.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Contraband Police

8.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Contraband Police

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

65.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Contraband Police

5 years apart

A

Contraband Police

2023 · Action

Crazy Rocks · PlayWay S.A.

Reviews
24,005
Positive
95%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.6M
Net rev
$26.7M
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

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Contraband Police, 13 only on Rust.

Only Contraband Police

SingleplayerRealisticMultiple Endings1980sAutomobile SimStory RichManagementDetectiveImmersive SimAction-AdventurePhysicsDestructionAtmospheric

Shared

Open WorldSimulationFirst-PersonActionFPSSurvivalIndie

Only Rust

CraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureNudityShooterCo-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

vv1.0

936K to 2.2M

units (median: 1.6M)

≈ $16.0M to $37.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

936Kmedian2.2M

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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