IXION vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
66.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
8.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
IXION
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
91.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
IXION
4 years apart
IXION
2022 · Indie
Bulwark Studios · Kasedo Games
- Reviews
- 17,264
- Positive
- 79%
- Launch price
- $34.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.1M
- Net rev
- $22.4M
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, 15 only on IXION, 15 only on Rust.
Only IXION
SpaceCity BuilderStrategyResource ManagementColony SimBase-BuildingExplorationChoices MatterAtmosphericEconomySingleplayerDarkManagementRTSDifficult
Shared
SurvivalBuildingSimulationPost-apocalypticIndie
Only Rust
CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly Access
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
vv1.0673K to 1.6M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $13.5M to $31.4M 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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