Head to head

Aion Classic vs Rust

Aion Classic

Live

30 – 14k daily

Rust

Live

340k – 1m daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2021 · 5 years ago

February 2018 · 9 years ago

Daily players

30 – 14k

340k – 1m

Estimated players

263%

520.1k11%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Aion ClassicRust

Aion Classic

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~5	—

Rust

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~557k	Up 2.3%
July 2026	~544.6k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Twitch viewers

Aion Classic: 0Down 100%
Rust: 12.5kDown 95%

Aion Classic currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Rust has 12,515.

Steam concurrent players

Aion Classic: —
Rust: 78.7kDown 54%

Rust currently has 78,704 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Aion Classic.

Discord members

Aion Classic: —
Rust: 802.2kUp 0.3%

Rust currently has 802,217 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Aion Classic.

Reddit members

Aion Classic: —
Rust: 707.5kUp 0.1%

Rust currently has 707,506 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Aion Classic.

YouTube subscribers

Aion Classic: —
Rust: 206k

Rust currently has 206,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Aion Classic.

How these estimates are made

Aion Classic

Aion Classic is estimated to have 30 – 14k players a day. Around 17k – 2m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

Rust

Rust is estimated to have 340k – 1m players a day. Around 13m – 34m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.