Rust vs SpaceEngine
Reviews on Steam
Rust
72.7× more reviews
Critical reception
SpaceEngine
9.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
SpaceEngine
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
100.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
SpaceEngine
1 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
SpaceEngine
2019 · Casual
Cosmographic Software · Cosmographic Software
- Reviews
- 15,694
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.0M
- Net rev
- $17.5M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on SpaceEngine.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic
Shared
Open WorldSandboxIndieEarly AccessSimulation
Only SpaceEngine
CasualSci-fiSpaceSpace SimFlight3DScienceRealisticColorfulEducationRelaxingAtmosphericFuturisticSingleplayerProcedural Generation
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
vv1.0612K to 1.4M
units (median: 1.0M)
≈ $10.5M to $24.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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