Head to head

Need for Speed: Edge vs Rust

Need for Speed: Edge

Live

Rust

Live

320k – 1m daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

October 2017 · 9 years ago

February 2018 · 9 years ago

Daily players

No population data

320k – 1m

Estimated players

—

531.1k2.1%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Need for Speed: EdgeRust

Need for Speed: Edge

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	—	—
July 2026	—	—

Rust

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
August 2026	~545.2k	Up 0.1%
July 2026	~544.6k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Steam concurrent players

Need for Speed: Edge: —
Rust: 126.9kDown 5.0%

Rust currently has 126,948 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: Edge.

Discord members

Need for Speed: Edge: —
Rust: 804.4kUp 0.9%

Rust currently has 804,440 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: Edge.

Reddit members

Need for Speed: Edge: —
Rust: 708.2kUp 0.3%

Rust currently has 708,156 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: Edge.

Twitch viewers

Need for Speed: Edge: —
Rust: 6.4kDown 74%

Rust currently has 6,381 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: Edge.

YouTube subscribers

Need for Speed: Edge: —
Rust: 206kUp 0.5%

Rust currently has 206,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Need for Speed: Edge.

How these estimates are made

Need for Speed: Edge

Not enough data collected to estimate this game yet.

Rust

Rust is estimated to have 320k – 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.