Head to head

Forge of Empires vs Rust

Forge of Empires

Live

160 – 73k daily

Rust

Live

270k – 940k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

April 2012 · 14 years ago

February 2018 · 9 years ago

Daily players

160 – 73k

270k – 940k

Estimated players

8.4k

529.7k3.1%

Available on

Browser
Android
iOS

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Isometric

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Forge of EmpiresRust

Forge of Empires

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~8.4k
August 2026	~8.4k	—

Rust

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~495.6k	Down 8.1%
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.

Twitch viewers

Forge of Empires: 0Down 100%
Rust: 5kDown 97%

Forge of Empires currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Rust has 5,017.

Steam concurrent players

Forge of Empires: —
Rust: 89.2kDown 30%

Rust currently has 89,164 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

Discord members

Forge of Empires: —
Rust: 806.5kUp 0.9%

Rust currently has 806,454 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

Reddit members

Forge of Empires: —
Rust: 708.7kUp 0.3%

Rust currently has 708,725 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

YouTube subscribers

Forge of Empires: —
Rust: 206kUp 0.5%

Rust currently has 206,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Forge of Empires.

How these estimates are made

Forge of Empires

Forge of Empires is estimated to have 160 – 73k players a day. Around 20k – 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 – 940k 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.