Rust vs Spirit Island
Reviews on Steam
Rust
718.6× more reviews
Critical reception
Spirit Island
4.7pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Spirit Island
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
808.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Spirit Island
2 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
Spirit Island
2020 · Indie
Handelabra Games Inc. · Handelabra Games Inc.
- Reviews
- 1,587
- Positive
- 92%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 127K
- Net rev
- $1.8M
Tag overlap
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Rust, 16 only on Spirit Island.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticSimulation
Shared
MultiplayerCo-opIndieEarly Access
Only Spirit Island
NatureBoard GameTurn-Based TacticsDestructionGrand StrategyStrategyTabletopCard GameLocal Co-Op2DDeckbuildingFantasyLocal MultiplayerSingleplayerMagicPsychological Horror
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
vv1.076K to 178K
units (median: 127K)
≈ $1.1M to $2.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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