Head to head
Gaia Online vs Rust
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Daily players
Estimated players
Available on
- Browser
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
- PlayStation
- Xbox
Player activity
Smoothed estimated players over time.
Gaia Online
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~789 | |
| August 2026 | ~789 | |
| July 2026 | ~789 | — |
Rust
| Month | Estimated players | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ~529k | Down 1.9% |
| 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
- Gaia Online
- 0
- Rust
- 11.7kDown 23%
Gaia Online currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Rust has 11,723.
YouTube subscribers
- Gaia Online
- 7.9kDown 0.1%
- Rust
- 206k
Rust currently has about 26× as many YouTube subscribers as Gaia Online — 206,000 vs 7,880.
Steam concurrent players
- Gaia Online
- —
- Rust
- 123.5kDown 4.0%
Rust currently has 123,451 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Gaia Online.
Discord members
- Gaia Online
- —
- Rust
- 808.3kUp 0.8%
Rust currently has 808,342 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Gaia Online.
Reddit members
- Gaia Online
- —
- Rust
- 709.4kUp 0.3%
Rust currently has 709,413 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Gaia Online.
How these estimates are made
Gaia Online
Gaia Online is estimated to have 16 – 8k players a day. Around 8k – 800k 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 280k – 980k 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.