Head to head
Pioner vs Rust
Pioner
~900 daily · 210 – 2.7k
Last measured Nov 14, 2026
Rust
~690k daily · 500k – 970k
Last measured Nov 14, 2026
VerdictRust has ~767× Pioner's daily players (~690k vs ~900, as of Nov 14, 2026). Pioner'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
- 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.
Steam concurrent players
- Pioner
- 6Down 65% past week
- Rust
- 112kDown 23% past week
Rust currently has about 18668× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Pioner — 112,010 vs 6.
Twitch viewers
- Pioner
- 2
- Rust
- 6.8kDown 33% past week
Rust currently has about 3391× as many live Twitch viewers as Pioner — 6,782 vs 2.
YouTube subscribers
- Pioner
- 22.5k
- Rust
- 207k
Rust currently has about 9.2× as many YouTube subscribers as Pioner — 207,000 vs 22,500.
Discord members
- Pioner
- —
- Rust
- 814.8kUp 0.2% past week
Rust currently has 814,819 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Pioner.
Reddit members
- Pioner
- —
- Rust
- 713.1k
Rust currently has 713,131 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Pioner.
How these estimates are made
Pioner
We estimate that about 900 people play Pioner on a typical day (most likely between 210 and 2,700), based on data from Nov 14, 2026. Around 160,000 accounts (between 95,000 and 380,000) have played it at some point. Pioner is on Steam, but Steam covers only part of its players, so the estimate also draws on 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 690,000 people play Rust on a typical day (most likely between 500,000 and 970,000), based on data from Nov 14, 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.