Rust vs Universe Sandbox
Reviews on Steam
Rust
42.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Universe Sandbox
9.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Universe Sandbox
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
47.4× 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
Universe Sandbox
2015 · Casual
- Reviews
- 27,041
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 2.2M
- Net rev
- $37.1M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on Universe Sandbox.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpPost-apocalyptic
Shared
Open WorldSandboxIndieEarly AccessSimulation
Only Universe Sandbox
SpacePhysicsScienceDestructionRealisticGod GameEducationSingleplayerRelaxingFamily FriendlySpace SimCasualSci-fiAtmosphericExploration
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
vv1.01.3M to 3.0M
units (median: 2.2M)
≈ $22.2M to $51.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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