Rust Surpasses 20M Copies Sold on Steam and Announces Friends With Benefits Update
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Key points
- Rust surpassed 20 million copies sold on Steam alone.
- In 2025, the game reached its highest online peak, with 262,284 concurrent players, according to SteamDB.
- Rust has a “Very Positive” rating on Steam with 1,027,005 reviews.
Multiplayer survival title Rust surpassed 20 million copies sold on Steam, according to an announcement from the game’s developer and publisher, Facepunch Studios, in a mid-year recap video on YouTube.
The video also highlights that, in 2025, the game reached its highest online peak, with 262,284 concurrent players, according to SteamDB.
The game was initially released for macOS and Windows PC on Feb. 8, 2018, and then ported, in collaboration with Double Eleven, to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on May 21, 2021. As of the time of writing, Rust has a “Very Positive” rating on Steam with 1,027,005 reviews.
As for the July 2025 update, Friends With Benefits, it will bring to the game a party system aimed at making assembling on one server with friends easier, new outpost spawning available in both Vanilla and Primitive modes, and multiple other tweaks and changes.
