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Rust vs Stranded Deep

Reviews on Steam

Rust

26.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

12.6pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Stranded Deep

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

40.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Stranded Deep

4 years apart

A
R

Rust

2018 · Action

Facepunch Studios · Facepunch Studios

Reviews
1,165,850
Positive
87%
Launch price
$39.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
104.9M
Net rev
$2396.8M
B
S

Stranded Deep

2022 · Adventure

Beam Team Games · Beam Team Publishing

Reviews
43,593
Positive
74%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
Unknown
Sales (median)
2.6M
Net rev
$29.9M

Tag overlap

70% shared , 14 shared tags, 6 only on Rust, 6 only on Stranded Deep.

Only Rust

PvPNudityFPSShooterOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic

Shared

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionCo-opIndieEarly AccessSimulation

Only Stranded Deep

ExplorationRealisticSingleplayerUnderwaterAtmosphericStrategy

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

63.0M to 146.9M

units (median: 104.9M)

≈ $1438.1M to $3355.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

63.0M median 146.9M
+ How is this calculated?
1,165,850 reviews × NB(90) = 104,926,500 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2018 +15
price_$40 +15
positive_87% +10
final NB 90

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.6M to 3.7M

units (median: 2.6M)

≈ $17.9M to $41.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.6M median 3.7M
+ How is this calculated?
43,593 reviews × NB(60) = 2,615,580 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2022 0
price_$20 0
positive_74% 0
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 60

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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