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Rust vs Space Engineers 2

Reviews on Steam

Rust

246.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

11.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Space Engineers 2

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

493.5× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Space Engineers 2

7 years apart

A

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
B

Space Engineers 2

2025 · Action

Keen Software House · Keen Software House

Reviews
4,622
Positive
76%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
208K
Net rev
$3.6M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Rust, 13 only on Space Engineers 2.

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftPvPAdventureNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpIndiePost-apocalyptic

Shared

Open WorldBuildingSandboxFirst-PersonActionEarly AccessSimulation

Only Space Engineers 2

StrategyAction-AdventureExploration3DChoose Your Own AdventureSpaceRealisticThird PersonSci-fiFuturisticRelaxingSingleplayerVoxel

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

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

Sales estimate

vv1.0

125K to 291K

units (median: 208K)

≈ $2.1M to $5.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

125Kmedian291K

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