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Necesse vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

49.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Necesse

6.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Necesse

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

88.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Necesse

7 years apart

A

Necesse

2025 · Action

Fair Games ApS · Fair Games ApS

Reviews
23,154
Positive
93%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.2M
Net rev
$9.9M
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

65% shared , 13 shared tags, 7 only on Necesse, 7 only on Rust.

Only Necesse

Pixel GraphicsRPGExplorationAutomation2DAtmosphericBase-Building

Shared

Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen WorldSandboxIndieAdventureSurvivalCraftingEarly AccessCo-opBuildingActionOnline Co-Op

Only Rust

PvPFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticSimulation

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

695K to 1.6M

units (median: 1.2M)

$5.9M to $13.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

695Kmedian1.6M

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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