Risk of Rain 2 vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
4.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Risk of Rain 2
6.9pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Risk of Rain 2
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
5.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Risk of Rain 2
2 years apart
Risk of Rain 2
2020 · Action
Hopoo Games · Gearbox Publishing
- Reviews
- 236,687
- Positive
- 94%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 18.9M
- Net rev
- $270.3M
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
40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Risk of Rain 2, 12 only on Rust.
Only Risk of Rain 2
Third-Person ShooterAction RoguelikeRogue-liteRogue-likeLooter ShooterLootGreat SoundtrackDifficultThird PersonSingleplayerSoundtrackBullet Hell
Shared
MultiplayerCo-opActionOnline Co-OpShooterIndieSurvivalEarly Access
Only Rust
CraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSPost-apocalypticSimulation
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
vv1.011.4M to 26.5M
units (median: 18.9M)
≈ $162.2M to $378.4M 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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