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Friends vs Friends vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

78.8× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

4.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Friends vs Friends

$30.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

157.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Friends vs Friends

5 years apart

A

Friends vs Friends

2023 · Action

Brainwash Gang · Raw Fury

Reviews
14,479
Positive
83%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
652K
Net rev
$3.7M
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

45% shared , 9 shared tags, 11 only on Friends vs Friends, 11 only on Rust.

Only Friends vs Friends

Card GameOld SchoolBattle RoyaleColorfulTeam-BasedCombatArena ShooterHero ShooterPixel GraphicsGun CustomizationDestruction

Shared

ActionOnline Co-OpCo-opFPSMultiplayerIndiePvPShooterFirst-Person

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingSandboxAdventureNudityPost-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

391K to 912K

units (median: 652K)

$2.2M to $5.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

391Kmedian912K

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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