Head to head
Galacticraft vs Rust

Galacticraft
~210 daily · 49 – 630
Last measured Nov 11, 2026

Rust
~590k daily · 420k – 820k
Last measured Nov 11, 2026
VerdictRust has ~2810× Galacticraft's daily players (~590k vs ~210, as of Nov 11, 2026). Galacticraft's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.
Side by side
Values shared by both games are highlighted.
Status
Released
Est. daily players
Available on
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
- PlayStation
- Windows
- Xbox
Categories
Player activity
Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.
Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.
Community breakdown
Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.
Discord members
- Galacticraft
- 5.4k
- Rust
- 814.2kUp 0.1% past week
Rust currently has about 151× as many Discord members as Galacticraft — 814,201 vs 5,377.
Steam concurrent players
- Galacticraft
- —
- Rust
- 66kDown 53% past week
Rust currently has 65,957 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.
Reddit members
- Galacticraft
- —
- Rust
- 713k
Rust currently has 713,027 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.
Twitch viewers
- Galacticraft
- —
- Rust
- 1.8kDown 92% past week
Rust currently has 1,808 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.
YouTube subscribers
- Galacticraft
- —
- Rust
- 207k
Rust currently has 207,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Galacticraft.
How these estimates are made
Galacticraft
We estimate that about 210 people play Galacticraft on a typical day (most likely between 49 and 630), based on data from Nov 11, 2026. Around 51,000 accounts (between 18,000 and 120,000) have played it at some point. Galacticraft publishes no Steam player data, so the estimate is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.
Rust
We estimate that about 590,000 people play Rust on a typical day (most likely between 420,000 and 820,000), based on data from Nov 11, 2026. Around 20,000,000 accounts (between 16,000,000 and 26,000,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: high — measured from a full day of Steam data, for a game played mainly on Steam.
