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Hades vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

4.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Hades

11.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Hades

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

4.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Hades

2 years apart

A

Hades

2020 · Action

Supergiant Games · Supergiant Games

Reviews
281,339
Positive
98%
Launch price
$24.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
22.5M
Net rev
$321.3M
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

10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on Hades, 18 only on Rust.

Only Hades

Action RoguelikeRogue-liteHack and SlashMythologyRogue-likeSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackStory RichRPGDungeon CrawlerReplay ValueIsometricDifficultAction RPGHand-drawnAtmosphericPerma DeathLGBTQ+

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

vv1.0

13.5M to 31.5M

units (median: 22.5M)

$192.8M to $449.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

13.5Mmedian31.5M

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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