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Hyper Light Drifter vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

60.9× more reviews

Critical reception

Hyper Light Drifter

6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Hyper Light Drifter

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

60.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

2 years apart

A

Hyper Light Drifter

2016 · Action

Heart Machine · Heart Machine

Reviews
18,724
Positive
93%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.7M
Net rev
$19.2M
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Hyper Light Drifter, 16 only on Rust.

Only Hyper Light Drifter

Pixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericDifficultHack and SlashSingleplayerExplorationRPG2DColorfulTop-DownAction RPGMetroidvaniaSouls-likeFantasySci-fi

Shared

AdventureIndieActionPost-apocalyptic

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly 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

1.0M to 2.4M

units (median: 1.7M)

≈ $11.5M to $26.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.0Mmedian2.4M

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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