Rust vs The Roottrees are Dead
Reviews on Steam
Rust
132.9× more reviews
Critical reception
The Roottrees are Dead
9.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
The Roottrees are Dead
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
199.4× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Roottrees are Dead
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 Roottrees are Dead
2025 · Adventure
Evil Trout Inc. · Evil Trout Inc.
- Reviews
- 8,578
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 515K
- Net rev
- $5.9M
Tag overlap
10% shared , 2 shared tags, 18 only on Rust, 18 only on The Roottrees are Dead.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
AdventureIndie
Only The Roottrees are Dead
MysteryPuzzleDetectivePoint & ClickAtmosphericStory RichInvestigationSingleplayer1990'sLogicInteractive FictionRetroStylized2DCasualNoirImmersiveAlternate History
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
vv1.0309K to 721K
units (median: 515K)
≈ $3.5M to $8.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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