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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

8.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

10.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

$35.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

10.4× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

9 years apart

A

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

2009 · Strategy

PopCap Games, Inc. · PopCap Games, Inc.

Reviews
140,494
Positive
98%
Launch price
$4.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
9.8M
Net rev
$28.0M
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

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, 16 only on Rust.

Only Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

Tower DefenseZombiesStrategySingleplayerCasualClassicGreat Soundtrack2DComedyFamily FriendlyFunnyPuzzleAddictiveCuteTacticalTouch-Friendly

Shared

SurvivalIndieAdventurePost-apocalyptic

Only Rust

CraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly 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

5.9M to 13.8M

units (median: 9.8M)

≈ $16.8M to $39.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.9Mmedian13.8M

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

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