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Rust vs Spaceflight Simulator

Reviews on Steam

Rust

124.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Spaceflight Simulator

9.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Spaceflight Simulator

$25.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

187.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Spaceflight Simulator

4 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

Spaceflight Simulator

2022 · Indie

Team Curiosity ✦ · Team Curiosity ✦

Reviews
9,144
Positive
97%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
549K
Net rev
$4.7M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Rust, 13 only on Spaceflight Simulator.

Only Rust

SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic

Shared

CraftingOpen WorldBuildingSandboxIndieEarly AccessSimulation

Only Spaceflight Simulator

Space SimSpace2DExplorationSingleplayerScienceSpaceshipsPhysicsAtmosphericRealistic2.5DModdableSci-fi

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

329K to 768K

units (median: 549K)

≈ $2.8M to $6.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

329Kmedian768K

How comparison pages work

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