Head to head

Blade & Soul vs Rust

Blade & Soul

Live

35 – 16k daily

Rust

Live

270k – 950k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2012 · 14 years ago

February 2018 · 9 years ago

Daily players

35 – 16k

270k – 950k

Estimated players

11.5k

532k2.8%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Blade & SoulRust

Blade & Soul

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~11.5k
August 2026	~11.5k
July 2026	~11.5k	—

Rust

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~528.5k	Down 2.0%
August 2026	~539.2k	Down 1.0%
July 2026	~544.6k	—

Community breakdown

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

Reddit members

Blade & Soul: 49.2k
Rust: 709.6kUp 0.2%

Rust currently has about 14× as many subreddit members as Blade & Soul — 709,625 vs 49,154.

Twitch viewers

Blade & Soul: 4Down 56%
Rust: 3.4kDown 86%

Rust currently has about 859× as many live Twitch viewers as Blade & Soul — 3,434 vs 4.

YouTube subscribers

Blade & Soul: 65.5kDown 0.2%
Rust: 206k

Rust currently has about 3.1× as many YouTube subscribers as Blade & Soul — 206,000 vs 65,500.

Steam concurrent players

Blade & Soul: —
Rust: 51.2kDown 60%

Rust currently has 51,184 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Discord members

Blade & Soul: —
Rust: 809.3kUp 0.8%

Rust currently has 809,258 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

How these estimates are made

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is estimated to have 35 – 16k players a day. Around 24k – 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 270k – 950k 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.