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Game Dev Tycoon vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

28.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Game Dev Tycoon

8.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Game Dev Tycoon

$30.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

36.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

5 years apart

A

Game Dev Tycoon

2013 · Casual

Greenheart Games 💚 · Greenheart Games 💚

Reviews
40,065
Positive
95%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
2.8M
Net rev
$16.0M
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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Game Dev Tycoon, 17 only on Rust.

Only Game Dev Tycoon

ManagementStrategyCasualSingleplayerEconomy2DModdableAddictiveReplay ValueGameMakerFunnyDifficultPoint & ClickGreat SoundtrackIsometricComedyTouch-Friendly

Shared

SimulationIndieSandbox

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-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

1.7M to 3.9M

units (median: 2.8M)

≈ $9.6M to $22.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.7Mmedian3.9M

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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