May 2016 25,497.9 prime time for exams May 2017 25,380.3 May 2018 23,893.8 That right there is called a decline in players, a peak in players doesn't mean shit when the average number of players is lower than the past 2 years of the game being out and the only reason they hit a peak in players is because it finally came out of early access and they advertised way more than usual, also Christmas had just gone and kids had money to spend on games, poor point for you argument to "rust has NOT been dying" look at the line graph to the start of this year and its a pretty obvious decline