Rust vs The Forgotten City
Reviews on Steam
Rust
86.3× more reviews
Critical reception
The Forgotten City
9pp gap
Cheaper at launch
The Forgotten City
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
86.3× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Forgotten City
3 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
The Forgotten City
2021 · Adventure
Modern Storyteller · Dear Villagers
- Reviews
- 13,222
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.2M
- Net rev
- $17.0M
Tag overlap
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Rust, 16 only on The Forgotten City.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
Open WorldAdventureFirst-PersonIndie
Only The Forgotten City
Time TravelMysteryExplorationChoices MatterInvestigationStory RichRPGMultiple EndingsWalking SimulatorAtmosphericPhilosophicalGreat SoundtrackRemakeFantasyRomeSilent Protagonist
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
vv1.0714K to 1.7M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $10.2M to $23.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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