No Man's Sky vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
3.7× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
2.1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Rust
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
3.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
2 years apart
No Man's Sky
2016 · Action
- Reviews
- 307,436
- Positive
- 85%
- Launch price
- $59.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 29.2M
- Net rev
- $1000.8M
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
60% shared , 12 shared tags, 8 only on No Man's Sky, 8 only on Rust.
Only No Man's Sky
SpaceExplorationSci-fiProcedural GenerationSingleplayerAtmosphericSpace SimVR
Shared
Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalAdventureFirst-PersonMultiplayerSandboxCraftingIndieActionSimulationFPS
Only Rust
BuildingPvPNudityShooterCo-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
vv1.017.5M to 40.9M
units (median: 29.2M)
≈ $600.5M to $1401.1M 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)
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