POOLS vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
182.1× more reviews
Critical reception
POOLS
8.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
POOLS
$30.20 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
252.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
POOLS
6 years apart
POOLS
2024 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 6,261
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $9.79
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 407K
- Net rev
- $2.3M
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 POOLS, 16 only on Rust.
Only POOLS
Psychological HorrorWalking SimulatorAtmosphericRealisticExplorationSingleplayerImmersiveSurrealRelaxingNonlinearMinimalist3DUnderwaterDarkEscape RoomMystery
Shared
First-PersonAdventureIndieMultiplayer
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-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
vv1.0244K to 570K
units (median: 407K)
≈ $1.4M to $3.2M 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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