Head to head

Ingress vs Rust

Ingress

Live

73 – 34k daily

Rust

Live

310k – 1m daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2013 · 13 years ago

February 2018 · 9 years ago

Daily players

73 – 34k

310k – 1m

Estimated players

18.3k

552.6k5.5%

Available on

Android
iOS

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

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First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

IngressRust

Ingress

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~18.3k
September 2026	~18.3k
August 2026	~18.3k	Up 5.7%
July 2026	~17.3k	—

Rust

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~528.9k	Up 0.7%
September 2026	~525k	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.

Reddit members

Ingress: 58.4kUp 0.2%
Rust: 712.4kUp 0.2%

Rust currently has about 12× as many subreddit members as Ingress — 712,433 vs 58,430.

Twitch viewers

Ingress: 0
Rust: 7.4kDown 87%

Ingress currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Rust has 7,372.

YouTube subscribers

Ingress: 122k
Rust: 207kUp 0.5%

Rust currently has about 1.7× as many YouTube subscribers as Ingress — 207,000 vs 122,000.

Steam concurrent players

Ingress: —
Rust: 47.5kDown 63%

Rust currently has 47,541 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ingress.

Discord members

Ingress: —
Rust: 814.3kUp 0.3%

Rust currently has 814,341 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Ingress.

How these estimates are made

Ingress

Ingress is estimated to have 73 – 34k players a day. Around 28k – 3m 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 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.