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HROT vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

178.4× more reviews

Critical reception

HROT

9.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

HROT

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

267.6× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

HROT

5 years apart

A

HROT

2023 · Action

Spytihněv · Spytihněv

Reviews
6,393
Positive
97%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
384K
Net rev
$4.4M
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, 15 only on HROT, 15 only on Rust.

Only HROT

RetroBoomer ShooterSingleplayerOld SchoolGoreViolentDarkHorrorAtmospheric1980sAlternate HistoryBloodHorsesDrivingVehicular Combat

Shared

FPSShooterIndieFirst-PersonAction

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

vv1.0

230K to 537K

units (median: 384K)

$2.6M to $6.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

230Kmedian537K

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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