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Cosmic Dust & Rust

16bit Nights · published by Back To Basics Gaming · released May 17, 2016 · data updated Oct 24, 2026

CasualStrategyTower Defense

by 16bit Nights, published by Back To Basics Gaming

Cosmic Dust & Rust is a tower defence game set in space. Upgrade your ship, build turrets and defence systems, undergo side missions and take control of your ship manually and use its cannons and super weapons to destroy

Released May 17, 2016

Steam figures

	Value	As of
Steam reviews	Mixed · 58% positive of 218 Steam reviews	Oct 23, 2026
Followers on Steam	No followers data for this game yet
Regular US price	$1.99	Oct 20, 2026

New Steam reviews per month

Month	New positive	New negative
Nov 2025	1	0
Dec 2025	0	0
Jan 2026	1	1
Mar 2026	1	1
Apr 2026	1	1
Jun 2026	1	0
Jul 2026	1	2
Aug 2026	1	0

Sales estimate

Copies sold on Steam	3.7k – 22k
Gross revenue on Steam	$6.9k – $24k before refunds, tax and Steam’s cut
Steam reviews by buyers	218	Oct 23, 2026
Copies per review	17–99

Estimates are based on an aggregation of industry-accepted conversion formulas. How this is estimated

Tag DNA

Tag	Share of Steam games
Tower Defense	1 in 38 games
Difficult	1 in 19 games
Pixel Graphics	1 in 6 games
Strategy	1 in 4 games
Action	1 in 3 games
Casual	1 in 2 games
Indie	1 in 2 games

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