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Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

90.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

7.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

135.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

4 years apart

A

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

2022 · Simulation

Walternate Realities · Walternate Realities

Reviews
12,626
Positive
94%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
758K
Net rev
$8.7M
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

40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander, 12 only on Rust.

Only Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Sci-fiSingleplayer2DSpaceStrategyExplorationSpace SimDifficultAtmosphericPixel GraphicsReal-Time with PauseSpaceships

Shared

IndieBuildingSurvivalMultiplayerOnline Co-OpSimulationAdventureEarly Access

Only Rust

CraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opPost-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

455K to 1.1M

units (median: 758K)

$5.2M to $12.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

455Kmedian1.1M

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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