Rust vs Windblown
Reviews on Steam
Rust
113.5× more reviews
Critical reception
Windblown
2.1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Windblown
$15.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Rust
157.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Windblown
6 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
Windblown
2024 · Action
- Reviews
- 10,048
- Positive
- 89%
- Launch price
- $24.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 653K
- Net rev
- $9.3M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Rust, 15 only on Windblown.
Only Rust
SurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonNudityFPSShooterOnline Co-OpPost-apocalypticSimulation
Shared
MultiplayerActionCo-opIndieEarly Access
Only Windblown
Action RoguelikeHack and SlashRogue-likeSouls-likeIsometricRogue-liteDifficultFast-PacedReplay ValueRoguevaniaTop-DownPerma DeathDungeon CrawlerTeam-BasedCharacter Customization
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
vv1.0392K to 914K
units (median: 653K)
≈ $5.6M to $13.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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