Skip to content
indielist (beta)

Dustborn vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

1682.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

20.4pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Dustborn

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

3364.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Dustborn

6 years apart

A

Dustborn

2024 · Action

Red Thread Games · Spotlight by Quantic Dream

Reviews
678
Positive
67%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
31K
Net rev
$0.5M
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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Dustborn, 17 only on Rust.

Only Dustborn

Story RichSingleplayerComic BookChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistLGBTQ+ColorfulLore-RichEmotionalExplorationAlternate HistoryAction-AdventureThird PersonDramaAtmosphericFuturisticSuperhero

Shared

IndieAdventureAction

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation

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

18K to 43K

units (median: 31K)

≈ $314K to $732K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

18Kmedian43K

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

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

Want a comparison that doesn't exist? Browse all games, find two slugs, and concatenate them: /compare/games/<slug-a>/<slug-b>. Both orderings render the same content; we canonicalise to alphabetical for SEO.