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This action-adventure RPG, released in 2018, places players in a massively multiplayer survival experience. It has garnered over 1,134,611 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Rust is a 2018 Action game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Facepunch Studios. On Steam it has gathered 1,140,437 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Facepunch Studios with publisher Facepunch Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 61.6 million to 143.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Rust can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,140,437
Positive
87%
Steam appid
252490
Engine
n/a
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)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Rust at roughly 61.6 million to 143.7 million copies, with a median around 102.6 million, derived from its 1,140,437 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2344.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $20.95Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $20.95 to $39.99, averaging $37.70 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $20.95 on 2026-03-10.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingPvPSandboxAdventureFirst-PersonActionNudityFPSShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpIndiePost-apocalypticEarly AccessSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Rust sold?
- indielist estimates Rust has sold between 61,583,598 and 143,695,062 units (median 102,639,330), derived from its 1,140,437 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Rust?
- Rust was developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Facepunch Studios.
- When was Rust released?
- Rust was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Rust have on Steam?
- Rust has 1,140,437 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Rust sold?
- indielist estimates Rust has sold between 61,583,598 and 143,695,062 units (median 102,639,330), derived from its 1,140,437 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Rust?
- Rust was developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Facepunch Studios.
- When was Rust released?
- Rust was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Rust have on Steam?
- Rust has 1,140,437 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Rust within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Facepunch Studios's other releases and Facepunch Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rust sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Rust page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.