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Dawn of Man vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

64.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

0.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Dawn of Man

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

72.4× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Dawn of Man

1 years apart

A

Dawn of Man

2019 · Indie

Madruga Works · Madruga Works

Reviews
17,719
Positive
87%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.4M
Net rev
$20.2M
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 Dawn of Man, 13 only on Rust.

Only Dawn of Man

City BuilderColony SimStrategyHistoricalSingleplayerEconomyChoices MatterRTSResource ManagementDestructionStory RichManagementPolitical

Shared

SurvivalSimulationSandboxOpen WorldIndieMultiplayerNudity

Only Rust

CraftingOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionFPSShooterCo-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

851K to 2.0M

units (median: 1.4M)

$12.1M to $28.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

851Kmedian2.0M

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

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