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Plague Inc: Evolved vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

20.3× more reviews

Critical reception

Plague Inc: Evolved

7.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Plague Inc: Evolved

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

24.4× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

2 years apart

A

Plague Inc: Evolved

2016 · Casual

Ndemic Creations · Ndemic Creations

Reviews
56,119
Positive
94%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
4.2M
Net rev
$36.0M
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 Plague Inc: Evolved, 12 only on Rust.

Only Plague Inc: Evolved

StrategyOutbreak SimSingleplayerZombiesCasualTacticalReplay ValueAddictiveRealistic2DDifficultAtmospheric

Shared

SimulationIndieMultiplayerPost-apocalypticCo-opSandboxEarly AccessSurvival

Only Rust

CraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterOnline Co-Op

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

2.5M to 5.9M

units (median: 4.2M)

≈ $21.6M to $50.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

2.5Mmedian5.9M

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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