News Tower vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
262.4× more reviews
Critical reception
News Tower
7.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
News Tower
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
429.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
News Tower
7 years apart
News Tower
2025 · Simulation
Sparrow Night · Twin Sails Interactive
- Reviews
- 4,346
- Positive
- 94%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 239K
- Net rev
- $3.4M
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
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on News Tower, 14 only on Rust.
Only News Tower
ManagementStrategy2DResource ManagementEconomyTime ManagementCapitalismTacticalChoices MatterHistoricalSingleplayerComedyAtmosphericAmerica
Shared
SimulationSandboxIndieBuildingCraftingEarly Access
Only Rust
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic
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
vv1.0143K to 335K
units (median: 239K)
≈ $2.0M to $4.8M 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)
How comparison pages work
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