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Forager vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

32.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Forager

2.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Forager

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

39.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Forager

1 years apart

A

Forager

2019 · Action

HopFrog · Balor Games

Reviews
35,015
Positive
90%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
2.6M
Net rev
$30.0M
B

Rust

2018 · Action

Facepunch Studios · Facepunch Studios

Reviews
1,140,888
Positive
87%
Launch price
$39.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
102.7M
Net rev
$2345.4M

Tag overlap

50% shared , 10 shared tags, 10 only on Forager, 10 only on Rust.

Only Forager

Pixel GraphicsFarming Sim2DBase-BuildingSingleplayerResource ManagementExplorationRPGCasualAgriculture

Shared

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalCraftingIndieSandboxAdventureMultiplayerBuildingOpen WorldSimulation

Only Rust

PvPFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly Access

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

1.6M to 3.7M

units (median: 2.6M)

$18.0M to $42.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.6Mmedian3.7M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

61.6M to 143.8M

units (median: 102.7M)

$1407.3M to $3283.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

61.6Mmedian143.8M

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.

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