Rust Breaks Another Record on Steam While Still Trending on Twitch
Rust's recent activity record lasted only a few days. The new one was set last night. For the first time over 200,000 people were playing the game on Steam.
Rust is still on the rise. A few days ago we reported that Facepunch's game set an activity record on Steam, with 134,483 people playing simultaneously. The record from January 4 has already become obsolete - the new one is 203,795 players at once and was achieved last night.
At the time of writing this news, 113,635 people were playing Rust on Steam at the same time. This result gives the game the fifth place among the most popular games on the website, enabling it to overtake such titles as Cyberpunk 2077, Team Fortress 2 or Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege.
Before this year, the game's activity record was 125 thousand users and was set in April 2020. Rust's sudden rise in popularity is due to what is happening on Twitch. At the end of December OfflineTV set up a server where dozens of famous streamers, including Shroud, xQc, Pokimane, Disguised Toast, Sodapoppin and Myth, started playing together. The broadcasts from their games are very popular and effectively increase interest in the game itself.
On January 3, the number of users watching Rust streams on Twitch exceeded 1.2 million, a result many times better than anything the game has achieved before. In the following days, the number exceeded 900 thousand viewers many times, and yesterday's record was 766 thousand.
At the time of writing this news Rust is the most popular game on Twitch, beating Escape From Tarkov, League of Legends and Just Chatting.
