Palworld vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
3.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Palworld
7.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Palworld
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
4.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Palworld
6 years apart
Palworld
2024 · Action
- Reviews
- 355,335
- Positive
- 94%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 23.1M
- Net rev
- $395.7M
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 Palworld, 8 only on Rust.
Only Palworld
Creature CollectorBase-BuildingThird-Person ShooterAutomationRPGAnimeExplorationFarming
Shared
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpCraftingCo-opAdventureSandboxBuildingActionEarly Access
Only Rust
PvPFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterIndiePost-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
vv1.013.9M to 32.3M
units (median: 23.1M)
≈ $237.4M to $553.9M 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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