Root vs Rust
Reviews on Steam
Rust
214.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Root
3.3pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Root
$25.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
257.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Root
2 years apart
Root
2020 · Indie
- Reviews
- 5,323
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 399K
- Net rev
- $3.4M
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
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Root, 15 only on Rust.
Only Root
Board GameTabletopStrategyWarWargameCuteTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerTouch-FriendlyAsynchronous MultiplayerCard GamePuzzleSolitaireTop-DownCartoony
Shared
IndieSimulationPvPMultiplayerEarly Access
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic
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
vv1.0240K to 559K
units (median: 399K)
≈ $2.1M to $4.8M 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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