Kenshi vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
12.0× more reviews
Critical reception
Kenshi
8.6pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Kenshi
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
13.5× more units (white-box estimate)
Kenshi
2018 · Action
- Reviews
- 95,327
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 7.6M
- Net rev
- $130.6M
Rust
2018 · Action
Facepunch Studios · Facepunch Studios
- Reviews
- 1,140,888
- Positive
- 87%
- Launch price
- $39.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 102.7M
- Net rev
- $2345.4M
Tag overlap
45% shared , 9 shared tags, 11 only on Kenshi, 11 only on Rust.
Only Kenshi
RPGStrategyBase-BuildingSingleplayerCity BuilderManagementRTSCharacter CustomizationNinjaAlternate HistorySteampunk
Shared
Open WorldSandboxSurvivalBuildingPost-apocalypticCraftingIndieAdventureSimulation
Only Rust
MultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftPvPFirst-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
vv1.04.6M to 10.7M
units (median: 7.6M)
≈ $78.4M to $182.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.061.6M to 143.8M
units (median: 102.7M)
≈ $1407.3M to $3283.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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