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Rust vs Styx: Master of Shadows

Reviews on Steam

Rust

98.5× more reviews

Critical reception

Rust

3.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Styx: Master of Shadows

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

110.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

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

Styx: Master of Shadows

2014 · Action

Cyanide Studio · Cyanide Studio

Reviews
11,581
Positive
83%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
926K
Net rev
$10.6M

Tag overlap

25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on Styx: Master of Shadows.

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation

Shared

MultiplayerOpen WorldAdventureActionIndie

Only Styx: Master of Shadows

StealthSingleplayerAtmosphericViolentStory RichThird PersonAssassinParkourDark FantasyFantasyRPGSteampunkMagicDifficultGreat Soundtrack

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

556K to 1.3M

units (median: 926K)

≈ $6.3M to $14.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

556Kmedian1.3M

How comparison pages work

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