Head to head
Rust vs Star Citizen
Rust
~650k daily · 470k – 910k
Last measured Nov 9, 2026
Star Citizen
~10k daily · 2.3k – 30k
Last measured Nov 9, 2026
VerdictRust has ~65× Star Citizen's daily players (~650k vs ~10k, as of Nov 9, 2026). Star Citizen'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
- PlayStation
- Windows
- Xbox
- Linux
- Windows
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
- Rust
- 106.5kDown 24% past week
- Star Citizen
- —
Rust currently has 106,450 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Star Citizen.
Discord members
- Rust
- 813.8k
- Star Citizen
- 161.3k
Rust currently has about 5× as many Discord members as Star Citizen — 813,814 vs 161,301.
Reddit members
- Rust
- 713k
- Star Citizen
- 535.7k
Rust currently has about 1.3× as many subreddit members as Star Citizen — 712,970 vs 535,662.
Twitch viewers
- Rust
- 7.9kDown 66% past week
- Star Citizen
- 2.7kDown 2.3% past week
Rust currently has about 3× as many live Twitch viewers as Star Citizen — 7,948 vs 2,660.
YouTube subscribers
- Rust
- 207k
- Star Citizen
- 577k
Star Citizen currently has about 2.8× as many YouTube subscribers as Rust — 577,000 vs 207,000.
How these estimates are made
Rust
We estimate that about 650,000 people play Rust on a typical day (most likely between 470,000 and 910,000), based on data from Nov 9, 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.
Star Citizen
We estimate that about 10,000 people play Star Citizen on a typical day (most likely between 2,300 and 30,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 900,000 accounts (between 310,000 and 2,100,000) have played it at some point. Star Citizen 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.