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Exanima vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

84.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

6.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Exanima

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

94.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

3 years apart

A

Exanima

2015 · Action

Bare Mettle Entertainment · Bare Mettle Entertainment

Reviews
13,562
Positive
80%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.1M
Net rev
$9.3M
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

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Exanima, 14 only on Rust.

Only Exanima

PhysicsRPGDark FantasyDungeon CrawlerMedievalDifficultIsometricSingleplayerAtmosphericSouls-likeCharacter CustomizationRogue-likeHorrorAction Roguelike

Shared

AdventureActionEarly AccessIndieSimulationNudity

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic

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

651K to 1.5M

units (median: 1.1M)

$5.6M to $13.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

651Kmedian1.5M

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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