GROUND BRANCH vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
54.5× more reviews
Critical reception
GROUND BRANCH
1.6pp gap
Cheaper at launch
GROUND BRANCH
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
61.4× more units (white-box estimate)
GROUND BRANCH
2018 · Action
BlackFoot Studios · MicroProse Software
- Reviews
- 20,912
- Positive
- 89%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.7M
- Net rev
- $28.7M
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
55% shared , 11 shared tags, 9 only on GROUND BRANCH, 9 only on Rust.
Only GROUND BRANCH
TacticalRealisticMilitarySingleplayerGun CustomizationWarStrategyTeam-BasedAtmospheric
Shared
FPSShooterMultiplayerSimulationActionCo-opFirst-PersonOnline Co-OpEarly AccessIndieSandbox
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureNudityPost-apocalyptic
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
vv1.01.0M to 2.3M
units (median: 1.7M)
≈ $17.2M to $40.1M 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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