Rust vs Thief Simulator 2
Reviews on Steam
Rust
177.6× more reviews
Critical reception
Thief Simulator 2
1.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Thief Simulator 2
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
266.3× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Thief Simulator 2
5 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
Thief Simulator 2
2023 · Action
- Reviews
- 6,423
- Positive
- 88%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 385K
- Net rev
- $4.4M
Tag overlap
40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Rust, 12 only on Thief Simulator 2.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPNudityFPSShooterOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticEarly Access
Shared
Open WorldSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionCo-opIndieSimulation
Only Thief Simulator 2
StealthCrimeSingleplayerAtmosphericHeistDrivingWalking SimulatorCasualHackingExplorationFunnyRealistic
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
vv1.0231K to 540K
units (median: 385K)
≈ $2.6M to $6.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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