Rust vs Starcom: Unknown Space
Reviews on Steam
Rust
263.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Starcom: Unknown Space
5.7pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Starcom: Unknown Space
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
365.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Starcom: Unknown Space
6 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
Starcom: Unknown Space
2024 · Action
- Reviews
- 4,322
- Positive
- 93%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 281K
- Net rev
- $4.0M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on Starcom: Unknown Space.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftPvPSandboxFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
Open WorldBuildingAdventureActionIndie
Only Starcom: Unknown Space
SpaceExplorationSpace SimAction RPGStory RichSci-fiTop-Down ShooterRPGCombatAction-AdventureLore-RichSingleplayerAliensAtmospheric2D
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
vv1.0169K to 393K
units (median: 281K)
≈ $2.4M to $5.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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