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Five Nights at Freddy's vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

21.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Five Nights at Freddy's

6.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Five Nights at Freddy's

$35.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

27.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

4 years apart

A

Five Nights at Freddy's

2014 · Indie

Scott Cawthon · Scott Cawthon

Reviews
52,676
Positive
94%
Launch price
$4.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
3.7M
Net rev
$10.5M
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 Five Nights at Freddy's, 17 only on Rust.

Only Five Nights at Freddy's

HorrorSingleplayerSurvival HorrorRobotsPsychological HorrorDifficultPoint & ClickDarkAtmosphericMouse onlyJump ScareSupernaturalResource ManagementLore-RichSilent ProtagonistShortHistorical

Shared

IndieFirst-PersonSurvival

Only Rust

CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureActionNudityFPSShooterCo-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

2.2M to 5.2M

units (median: 3.7M)

≈ $6.3M to $14.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.2Mmedian5.2M

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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