Head to head
Citadel: Forged With Fire vs Rust
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Daily players
Estimated players
Available on
- Windows
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
- PlayStation
- Xbox
Categories
Player activity
Smoothed estimated players over time.
Citadel: Forged With Fire
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~685 | |
| August 2026 | ~685 | Up 17% |
| July 2026 | ~587 | — |
Rust
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~525.2k | 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.
Steam concurrent players
- Citadel: Forged With Fire
- 9Down 31%
- Rust
- 82.1kDown 33%
Rust currently has about 9118× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Citadel: Forged With Fire — 82,059 vs 9.
Twitch viewers
- Citadel: Forged With Fire
- 0
- Rust
- 57.8kUp 230%
Citadel: Forged With Fire currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Rust has 57,768.
YouTube subscribers
- Citadel: Forged With Fire
- 893Down 0.4%
- Rust
- 206k
Rust currently has about 231× as many YouTube subscribers as Citadel: Forged With Fire — 206,000 vs 893.
Discord members
- Citadel: Forged With Fire
- —
- Rust
- 812.2kUp 0.8%
Rust currently has 812,152 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Citadel: Forged With Fire.
Reddit members
- Citadel: Forged With Fire
- —
- Rust
- 711.2kUp 0.4%
Rust currently has 711,169 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Citadel: Forged With Fire.
How these estimates are made
Citadel: Forged With Fire
Citadel: Forged With Fire is estimated to have 25 – 88 players a day. Around 130k – 330k 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.
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.
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