GemCraft - Chasing Shadows vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
261.3× more reviews
Critical reception
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
$30.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
276.7× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
3 years apart
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
2015 · Action
Game in a Bottle · Armor Games Studios
- Reviews
- 4,364
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 371K
- Net rev
- $2.1M
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
10% shared , 2 shared tags, 13 only on GemCraft - Chasing Shadows, 18 only on Rust.
Only GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Tower DefenseStrategySingleplayerTop-DownFantasyTactical2DClassicDifficultGreat SoundtrackPuzzleMagicDark Fantasy
Shared
IndieAction
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterCo-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
vv1.0223K to 519K
units (median: 371K)
≈ $1.3M to $3.0M 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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