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Party Animals vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

20.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

7.2pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Party Animals

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

36.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Party Animals

5 years apart

A

Party Animals

2023 · Action

Recreate Games · Source Technology

Reviews
56,574
Positive
80%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
2.8M
Net rev
$32.3M
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

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Party Animals, 14 only on Rust.

Only Party Animals

FunnyCasualCuteParty GameFightingPartyFamily FriendlyLocal MultiplayerPhysics4 Player Local3D FighterLocal Co-OpTeam-BasedAction-Adventure

Shared

MultiplayerCo-opActionPvPOnline Co-OpIndie

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterPost-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

1.7M to 4.0M

units (median: 2.8M)

$19.4M to $45.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.7Mmedian4.0M

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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