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Little Nightmares vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

22.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Little Nightmares

7.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Little Nightmares

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

19.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

1 years apart

A

Little Nightmares

2017 · Adventure

Tarsier Studios · BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment

Reviews
51,668
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
5.2M
Net rev
$59.0M
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 Little Nightmares, 17 only on Rust.

Only Little Nightmares

HorrorAtmosphericSingleplayerPuzzle-PlatformerDarkPuzzleStory RichStealthPlatformerPsychological HorrorGreat Soundtrack2.5DThird PersonSurvival HorrorFemale ProtagonistShortStrategy

Shared

AdventureIndieAction

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterCo-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

3.1M to 7.2M

units (median: 5.2M)

≈ $35.4M to $82.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

3.1Mmedian7.2M

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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