Rust vs The Magic Circle
Reviews on Steam
Rust
761.3× more reviews
Critical reception
The Magic Circle
5.6pp gap
Cheaper at launch
The Magic Circle
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
761.3× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Rust
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 Magic Circle
2015 · Action
- Reviews
- 1,498
- Positive
- 93%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 135K
- Net rev
- $1.5M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 9 only on The Magic Circle.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly Access
Shared
AdventureFirst-PersonActionIndieSimulation
Only The Magic Circle
PuzzleStory RichSatireStrategyComedySingleplayerProgrammingWalking SimulatorExploration
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
vv1.081K to 189K
units (median: 135K)
≈ $924K to $2.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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