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Three territories: how the CS2, Rust and Dota 2 markets differ

Our catalogue covers three games, and the navigation tabs make them look like neighbours. They are not. Price out every item in stock and you get three economies that barely resemble each other — different medians, different ceilings, different reasons to spend. Here is the census, one live snapshot, all three territories side by side.

The territories at a glance

CS2: the full-range market

CS2 is the only territory where money is spread across the whole map. A quarter of the stock costs less than a euro — and another quarter costs more than a hundred. The ninetieth percentile sits at €300, which means one listing in ten is a three-digit purchase, and the ceiling is a knife listed at €17,461.

This is what a collector economy looks like: wear grades, floats, patterns and stickers give nearly identical items wildly different price tags, and the top of the market behaves like an auction house rather than a shop. Everything we wrote about price cliffs and coordinates applies here at full strength.

Rust: the workshop flea market

Rust is the opposite. Sixty percent of the whole territory sits between one and five euros, and listings above a hundred euros are a rounding error — a handful of grails in a market of thousands. There are no wear grades and no floats: a Rust skin is the same object in every copy, so the collector premium that powers CS2 simply has no fuel here.

The practical consequence is pleasant: in Rust you outfit everything you own — weapons, armour, the base — for the price of a single mid-tier CS2 skin. The rare exceptions, like the legendary furnace listed at €7,436, are shop windows rather than shopping: one-of-a-kind drops from the game’s early history.

Dota 2: the penny archipelago

Dota 2 is the largest territory by island count and the cheapest by average depth: 82 percent of nearly fifteen thousand items cost less than a euro, and the median listing is ten cents. Treasure chests have flooded the market with cosmetics for years, and most of them float at the bottom.

Value in Dota concentrates in a thin archipelago at the top: Arcanas, Immortals from retired treasures, collector rarities from tournaments long past. The priciest listing in our snapshot is €1,975 — an item that has not dropped for years. Buying Dota cosmetics cheap is trivial; the skill is in telling which of the ten-cent islands will still be above water in five years.

Reading your own map

• Budget of a few euros? In Rust it dresses your whole loadout; in Dota it buys a full hero set; in CS2 it buys one honest low-float skin.
• Chasing value retention? CS2 concentrates it in knives, gloves and low floats; Dota in discontinued rarities; Rust barely plays that game at all.
• Do not carry CS2 instincts across the border: no floats in Rust, no wear cliffs in Dota — the rules of one territory do not travel.

All figures are one live snapshot of our own catalogue, taken in late September 2026: every item in stock, grouped by game, prices as listed that day.