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Rust vs Tetris® Effect: Connected

Reviews on Steam

Rust

129.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Tetris® Effect: Connected

7.6pp gap

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

154.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Tetris® Effect: Connected

3 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

Tetris® Effect: Connected

2021 · Casual

Monstars Inc. · Enhance

Reviews
8,836
Positive
95%
Launch price
$39.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
663K
Net rev
$15.1M

Tag overlap

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Rust, 16 only on Tetris® Effect: Connected.

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation

Shared

MultiplayerPvPOnline Co-OpIndie

Only Tetris® Effect: Connected

PuzzleFamily FriendlySingleplayerCompetitiveMusicArcadeCasualLocal Co-OpScore AttackPsychedelicTutorialAtmosphericControllerLocal MultiplayerVRStylized

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

398K to 928K

units (median: 663K)

≈ $9.1M to $21.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

398Kmedian928K

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