Frostpunk vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
10.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Frostpunk
5.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Frostpunk
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
11.4× more units (white-box estimate)
Frostpunk
2018 · Simulation
11 bit studios · 11 bit studios
- Reviews
- 112,340
- Positive
- 93%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 9.0M
- Net rev
- $154.0M
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
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Frostpunk, 16 only on Rust.
Only Frostpunk
City BuilderResource ManagementStrategySteampunkColony SimBase-BuildingSingleplayerManagementChoices MatterAtmosphericEconomyDarkDifficultRTSGreat SoundtrackReal-Time with Pause
Shared
SurvivalPost-apocalypticBuildingSimulation
Only Rust
CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpIndieEarly 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
vv1.05.4M to 12.6M
units (median: 9.0M)
≈ $92.4M to $215.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.061.6M to 143.7M
units (median: 102.6M)
≈ $1406.7M to $3282.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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