Rust vs The Past Within
Reviews on Steam
Rust
69.1× more reviews
Critical reception
The Past Within
7.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
The Past Within
$34.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
95.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Past Within
4 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 Past Within
2022 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 16,514
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $5.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.1M
- Net rev
- $3.7M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on The Past Within.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
MultiplayerAdventureCo-opOnline Co-OpIndie
Only The Past Within
PuzzleEscape RoomHorrorMysteryPoint & ClickPsychological HorrorLocal Co-OpStory RichAtmosphericLocal MultiplayerAsynchronous MultiplayerThriller2DSurreal3D
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
vv1.0644K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $2.2M to $5.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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