Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator vs Rust

Reviews on Steam

Rust

26.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

39.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

4 years apart

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

2022 · Indie

niceplay games · tinyBuild

Reviews: 43,722
Positive: 93%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: n/a
Sales (median): 2.6M
Net rev: $30.0M

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 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, 16 only on Rust.

Only Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

SingleplayerRelaxingMedievalManagement2DLife SimRPGCasualResource ManagementHand-drawnFarming SimTradingChoices MatterPoint & ClickHistoricalCapitalism

Shared

CraftingSimulationIndieSandbox

Only Rust

SurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-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

vv1.0

1.6M to 3.7M

units (median: 2.6M)

≈ $18.0M to $41.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.6Mmedian3.7M

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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