Rust vs The Headliners
Reviews on Steam
Rust
112.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
0.7pp gap
Cheaper at launch
The Headliners
$32.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
225.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Headliners
7 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 Headliners
2025 · Action
- Reviews
- 10,113
- Positive
- 86%
- Launch price
- $7.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 455K
- Net rev
- $2.1M
Tag overlap
30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Rust, 14 only on The Headliners.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
MultiplayerFirst-PersonActionCo-opOnline Co-OpIndie
Only The Headliners
HorrorFunnyAction-AdventureTeam-BasedGoreDestructionAtmosphericDarkSingleplayerViolentSouls-likeSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorSexual Content
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
vv1.0273K to 637K
units (median: 455K)
≈ $1.2M to $2.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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