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Where Rust players are concentrated: November 2026

59.5% of Rust players are on the busiest 1% of servers, and 90% are on just 765.

  • 60%of players are on the top 1% of servers +3.5 pts vs last edition
  • 99%of players are on the top 10% of servers +0.2 pts vs last edition
  • 765servers hold 90% of players -11.5% vs last edition
  • 4%of servers hold 90% of players -0.4 pts vs last edition

Changes are compared with the previous edition. How these numbers are measured

Rust player concentration: 60% of players are on the top 1% of servers

We took 22,143 public Rust servers and ranked them by their average player count over the seven days to 31 October.

The busiest 1% of them held 59.5% of all players, up from 56% in the October edition, and the busiest 10% held 99.4%. Half of all players were on just 161 servers. It took 765 servers, 3.5% of the total, to hold 90% of players, down from 864 in the October edition.

The report has the full curve, the busiest servers and the split by region, along with how the numbers were worked out.

Read the full report

The numbers count players connected to servers on the public Rust server list, as tracked by GameSentry. Steam's player count is higher because it also counts everyone with the game open in menus, loading screens and queues.

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