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Mini Metro vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

69.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Mini Metro

9.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Mini Metro

$30.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

73.2× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

3 years apart

A

Mini Metro

2015 · Indie

Dinosaur Polo Club · Dinosaur Polo Club

Reviews
16,506
Positive
96%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.4M
Net rev
$8.0M
B

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

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Mini Metro, 17 only on Rust.

Only Mini Metro

StrategyPuzzleMinimalistTrainsSingleplayerCasualManagementRelaxing2DTransportationTouch-FriendlyMouse onlyDifficultGreat SoundtrackAddictiveReplay ValueTop-Down

Shared

SimulationIndieBuilding

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly 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

vv1.0

842K to 2.0M

units (median: 1.4M)

≈ $4.8M to $11.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

842Kmedian2.0M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

61.6M to 143.8M

units (median: 102.7M)

≈ $1407.3M to $3283.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

61.6Mmedian143.8M

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