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Rust vs Torchlight II

Reviews on Steam

Rust

34.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Torchlight II

5.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Torchlight II

$20.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Rust

34.7× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Rust

6 years apart

A

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
B

Torchlight II

2012 · Action

Runic Games · XD

Reviews
32,891
Positive
93%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
3.0M
Net rev
$33.8M

Tag overlap

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Rust, 14 only on Torchlight II.

Only Rust

SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation

Shared

MultiplayerAdventureActionCo-opOnline Co-OpIndie

Only Torchlight II

RPGAction RPGHack and SlashLootDungeon CrawlerFantasySingleplayerModdableCharacter CustomizationIsometricReplay ValueSteampunkAtmosphericCartoon

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

vv1.0

61.6M to 143.7M

units (median: 102.6M)

$1406.7M to $3282.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

61.6Mmedian143.7M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

1.8M to 4.1M

units (median: 3.0M)

$20.3M to $47.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.8Mmedian4.1M

How comparison pages work

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