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Galacticraft vs Rust

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
Released

Released

February 2013 · 14 years ago
February 2018 · 9 years ago

Est. daily players

~21049 – 630Down 7.4% this weekLow confidence · Last measured Nov 11, 2026
~590k420k – 820kDown 26% this weekHigh confidence · Last measured Nov 11, 2026

Available on

  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • PlayStation
  • Windows
  • Xbox

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

GalacticraftRust

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.

How we estimate

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