Outlast vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
11.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Outlast
9.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Outlast
$25.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
11.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
5 years apart
Outlast
2013 · Action
- Reviews
- 101,554
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 9.1M
- Net rev
- $78.3M
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
35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Outlast, 13 only on Rust.
Only Outlast
HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericPsychological HorrorGoreSingleplayerDarkStealthParkourDifficultWalking Simulator3D VisionSci-fi
Shared
First-PersonSurvivalAdventureActionMultiplayerIndieNudity
Only Rust
CraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFPSShooterCo-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
vv1.05.5M to 12.8M
units (median: 9.1M)
≈ $47.0M to $109.6M 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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