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Emberward vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

308.0× more reviews

Critical reception

Emberward

10pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Emberward

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

462.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Emberward

6 years apart

A

Emberward

2024 · Action

Refic Games · Refic Games

Reviews
3,703
Positive
97%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
222K
Net rev
$1.9M
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 Emberward, 17 only on Rust.

Only Emberward

Tower DefenseStrategyRogue-liteBase-BuildingDeckbuildingRogue-likeRTSSingleplayerTactical3DColorfulCartoonyFantasyMagicResource ManagementTop-DownProcedural Generation

Shared

Early AccessIndieBuilding

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticSimulation

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

133K to 311K

units (median: 222K)

$1.1M to $2.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

133Kmedian311K

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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