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Hotline Miami vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

10.9× more reviews

Critical reception

Hotline Miami

10pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Hotline Miami

$30.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

11.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

6 years apart

A

Hotline Miami

2012 · Action

Dennaton Games · Devolver Digital

Reviews
104,245
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
8.9M
Net rev
$50.6M
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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Hotline Miami, 17 only on Rust.

Only Hotline Miami

Great SoundtrackViolentPixel GraphicsTop-DownGore1980sFast-PacedRetroPsychedelicDifficultSingleplayerSurreal2DTop-Down ShooterAtmosphericAddictiveMusic

Shared

ActionIndieShooter

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSCo-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

5.3M to 12.4M

units (median: 8.9M)

≈ $30.3M to $70.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.3Mmedian12.4M

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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