Rust vs Stranded Deep
Reviews on Steam
Rust
26.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
12.6pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Stranded Deep
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
39.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Stranded Deep
4 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
Stranded Deep
2022 · Adventure
Beam Team Games · Beam Team Publishing
- Reviews
- 43,247
- Positive
- 74%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 2.6M
- Net rev
- $29.6M
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
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
vv1.01.6M to 3.6M
units (median: 2.6M)
≈ $17.8M to $41.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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