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Outlast 2 vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

21.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Outlast 2

4pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Outlast 2

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

21.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

1 years apart

A

Outlast 2

2017 · Action

Red Barrels · Red Barrels

Reviews
52,979
Positive
91%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
4.8M
Net rev
$54.4M
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

40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Outlast 2, 12 only on Rust.

Only Outlast 2

HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorGoreSingleplayerDarkAtmosphericViolentMatureSexual ContentStory RichParkour

Shared

First-PersonSurvivalActionNudityAdventureMultiplayerIndieFPS

Only Rust

CraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxShooterCo-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

2.9M to 6.7M

units (median: 4.8M)

$32.7M to $76.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.9Mmedian6.7M

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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