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Coral Island vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

54.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Coral Island

1.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Coral Island

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

65.2× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Coral Island

5 years apart

A

Coral Island

2023 · Adventure

Stairway Games · Balor Games

Reviews
20,981
Positive
89%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.6M
Net rev
$27.0M
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 Coral Island, 13 only on Rust.

Only Coral Island

Farming SimLife SimRelaxingDating SimAgricultureRPGCharacter CustomizationSingleplayerCasualFishingMiningLGBTQ+Cartoony

Shared

SimulationCraftingSandboxBuildingOpen WorldIndieAdventure

Only Rust

SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftPvPFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-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

944K to 2.2M

units (median: 1.6M)

$16.2M to $37.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

944Kmedian2.2M

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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