HOLE vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
316.0× more reviews
Critical reception
HOLE
7.1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
HOLE
$35.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
711.0× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
HOLE
6 years apart
HOLE
2024 · Action
- Reviews
- 3,609
- Positive
- 94%
- Launch price
- $4.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 144K
- Net rev
- $0.4M
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
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 9 only on HOLE, 15 only on Rust.
Only HOLE
Extraction ShooterHorrorAtmosphericSurrealPsychological HorrorSingleplayer3DViolentCombat
Shared
FPSIndieActionShooterFirst-Person
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureNudityCo-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
vv1.087K to 202K
units (median: 144K)
≈ $247K to $576K 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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