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Fractal Block World vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

848.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Fractal Block World

11.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Fractal Block World

$33.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

1091.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Fractal Block World

3 years apart

A

Fractal Block World

2021 · Action

Dan Hathaway · Fractal Block Team LLC

Reviews
1,344
Positive
98%
Launch price
$6.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
94K
Net rev
$0.4M
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

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Fractal Block World, 13 only on Rust.

Only Fractal Block World

ExplorationSurrealVoxelPsychedelicNonlinearSpace SimSpaceModdable3DSingleplayerDungeon CrawlerOld SchoolCombat

Shared

Open WorldFPSIndieAdventureFirst-PersonActionShooter

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxNudityCo-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

56K to 132K

units (median: 94K)

≈ $225K to $526K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

56Kmedian132K

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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