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Escape the Backrooms vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

9.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Escape the Backrooms

3.5pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Escape the Backrooms

$30.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

19.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Escape the Backrooms

7 years apart

A

Escape the Backrooms

2025 · Action

Fancy Games · Secret Mode

Reviews
117,078
Positive
90%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
5.3M
Net rev
$30.1M
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 Escape the Backrooms, 12 only on Rust.

Only Escape the Backrooms

HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorEscape RoomExplorationVR3DSingleplayerAction-AdventureCasualStealthDungeon Crawler

Shared

MultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opFirst-PersonAdventureActionIndieEarly Access

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxNudityFPSShooterPost-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

3.2M to 7.4M

units (median: 5.3M)

≈ $18.0M to $42.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

3.2Mmedian7.4M

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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