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Dinkum vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

46.9× more reviews

Critical reception

Dinkum

5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Dinkum

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

70.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Dinkum

7 years apart

A

Dinkum

2025 · Adventure

James Bendon · KRAFTON, Inc.

Reviews
24,329
Positive
92%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.5M
Net rev
$16.7M
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

45% shared , 9 shared tags, 11 only on Dinkum, 11 only on Rust.

Only Dinkum

AgricultureFarming SimLife SimRelaxingFarmingRPGCasualExplorationSingleplayerFishingHunting

Shared

Open World Survival CraftCo-opCraftingSimulationSandboxIndieBuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure

Only Rust

SurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldPvPFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterPost-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

876K to 2.0M

units (median: 1.5M)

$10.0M to $23.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

876Kmedian2.0M

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

How comparison pages work

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