Rust vs Wartales
Reviews on Steam
Rust
32.7× more reviews
Critical reception
Rust
0.7pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Wartales
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
34.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Wartales
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
Wartales
2023 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 34,899
- Positive
- 86%
- Launch price
- $34.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 3.0M
- Net rev
- $59.3M
Tag overlap
40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Rust, 12 only on Wartales.
Only Rust
CraftingOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterPost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Shared
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldSandboxAdventureCo-opOnline Co-OpIndie
Only Wartales
RPGTurn-Based StrategyParty-Based RPGMedievalTurn-Based CombatStrategyTactical RPGSingleplayerExplorationTurn-BasedStory RichViolent
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
vv1.01.8M to 4.2M
units (median: 3.0M)
≈ $35.6M to $83.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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