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Rust vs The Chef's Shift

Reviews on Steam

Rust

656.9× more reviews

Critical reception

The Chef's Shift

10.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

The Chef's Shift

$27.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

1689.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

The Chef's Shift

7 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

The Chef's Shift

2025 · Casual

Panitia GameDev · Catoptric Games

Reviews
1,736
Positive
98%
Launch price
$12.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
61K
Net rev
$0.5M

Tag overlap

10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on Rust, 18 only on The Chef's Shift.

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly Access

Shared

IndieSimulation

Only The Chef's Shift

CookingTypingTime ManagementCrimeDifficultSingleplayerNarrationManagementDark HumorArcadeCute2DFunnyColorfulText-BasedCasualTop-DownStrategy

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

36K to 85K

units (median: 61K)

≈ $270K to $631K net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

36Kmedian85K

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