PAYDAY™ The Heist vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
52.5× more reviews
Critical reception
PAYDAY™ The Heist
6.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
PAYDAY™ The Heist
$30.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
55.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
7 years apart
PAYDAY™ The Heist
2011 · Action
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. · Starbreeze Entertainment
- Reviews
- 21,724
- Positive
- 93%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.8M
- Net rev
- $10.5M
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
50% shared , 10 shared tags, 10 only on PAYDAY™ The Heist, 10 only on Rust.
Only PAYDAY™ The Heist
HeistCrimeGreat SoundtrackTeam-BasedStealthDifficultTacticalStrategySingleplayerRPG
Shared
FPSActionCo-opMultiplayerOnline Co-OpShooterFirst-PersonSimulationIndieAdventure
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxNudityPost-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
vv1.01.1M to 2.6M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $6.3M to $14.8M 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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