Gold Mining Simulator vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
70.5× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
14.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Gold Mining Simulator
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
79.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
1 years apart
Gold Mining Simulator
2017 · Indie
- Reviews
- 16,166
- Positive
- 73%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.3M
- Net rev
- $14.8M
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
40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Gold Mining Simulator, 12 only on Rust.
Only Gold Mining Simulator
MiningSingleplayerRealisticDrivingEconomyExplorationStrategyManagementAutomobile SimRelaxingFunnyDifficult
Shared
SimulationOpen WorldIndieSandboxBuildingFirst-PersonAdventureCo-op
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftPvPActionNudityFPSShooterOnline 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
vv1.0776K to 1.8M
units (median: 1.3M)
≈ $8.9M to $20.7M 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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