Head to head

Blade & Soul vs Rust

Blade & Soul

Live

48 – 23k daily

Rust

Live

310k – 1m 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

48 – 23k

310k – 1m

Estimated players

11.5k

552.6k5.5%

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
October 2026	~11.5k
September 2026	~11.5k
August 2026	~11.5k
July 2026	~11.5k	—

Rust

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~529.2k	Up 0.8%
September 2026	~525k	Down 2.6%
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: 712.4kUp 0.2%

Rust currently has about 14× as many subreddit members as Blade & Soul — 712,436 vs 49,176.

Twitch viewers

Blade & Soul: 9Up 125%
Rust: 8.3kDown 86%

Rust currently has about 926× as many live Twitch viewers as Blade & Soul — 8,332 vs 9.

YouTube subscribers

Blade & Soul: 65.5k
Rust: 207kUp 0.5%

Rust currently has about 3.2× as many YouTube subscribers as Blade & Soul — 207,000 vs 65,500.

Steam concurrent players

Blade & Soul: —
Rust: 63kDown 51%

Rust currently has 62,961 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

Discord members

Blade & Soul: —
Rust: 814.3kUp 0.3%

Rust currently has 814,341 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Blade & Soul.

How these estimates are made

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is estimated to have 48 – 23k players a day. Around 27k – 3m 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 310k – 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.