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Hotel Architect vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

633.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Hotel Architect

6.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Hotel Architect

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

1036.2× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Hotel Architect

8 years apart

A

Hotel Architect

2026 · Indie

Pathos Interactive · Wired Productions

Reviews
1,801
Positive
94%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
99K
Net rev
$1.7M
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

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 14 only on Hotel Architect, 15 only on Rust.

Only Hotel Architect

StrategyManagementEconomyLife SimColorfulComedyRelaxingCapitalismFunnySingleplayer3DTop-DownTime ManipulationFamily Friendly

Shared

SimulationBuildingSandboxIndieEarly Access

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-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

vv1.0

59K to 139K

units (median: 99K)

≈ $1.0M to $2.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

59Kmedian139K

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

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