Rust vs Ship of Fools
Reviews on Steam
Rust
189.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
5pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
262.8× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Ship of Fools
4 years apart
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
Ship of Fools
2022 · Action
- Reviews
- 6,009
- Positive
- 82%
- Launch price
- $39.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 391K
- Net rev
- $8.9M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on Ship of Fools.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
MultiplayerActionCo-opOnline Co-OpIndie
Only Ship of Fools
Rogue-liteRogue-likeLocal Co-OpAction Roguelike2DLocal MultiplayerCuteColorfulFantasySingleplayerNaval CombatCombatGreat SoundtrackNavalTower Defense
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
vv1.061.6M to 143.7M
units (median: 102.6M)
≈ $1406.7M to $3282.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.0234K to 547K
units (median: 391K)
≈ $5.4M to $12.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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