FTL: Faster Than Light vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
18.4× more reviews
Critical reception
FTL: Faster Than Light
8.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
FTL: Faster Than Light
$30.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
19.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
6 years apart
FTL: Faster Than Light
2012 · Indie
- Reviews
- 62,078
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 5.3M
- Net rev
- $30.1M
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 FTL: Faster Than Light, 16 only on Rust.
Only FTL: Faster Than Light
Rogue-likeSpaceStrategySci-fiSingleplayerPerma DeathDifficultReplay ValueReal-Time with PauseProcedural GenerationTacticalSpace SimTop-Down2DRogue-liteChoose Your Own Adventure
Shared
IndieSurvivalSimulationAdventure
Only Rust
CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-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
vv1.03.2M to 7.4M
units (median: 5.3M)
≈ $18.1M to $42.2M 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)
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