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Rust

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Developer
Facepunch Studios
Publisher
Facepunch Studios
Franchise
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Release date
Feb 8, 2018
Store page updated
Jun 15, 2026
Price
−50% $39.99 $19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

67.6/ 100

Based on 353 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 80% of 7,770
All time 😄 Very Positive 87% of 1,398,979
“played 12 hours straight, extremely engaging and addictive”
игра просто топ играл целый день наверное часов 12 в 6 утра лег спать проснулся у меня нету дома 👍

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.20
Difficulty +0.03

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Story & World
+2.17

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

World +2.52

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.40
Variety -0.68

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+0.41

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Visuals -0.43

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Multiplayer
-1.28
Playing together +0.29
“fun defending base with coordinated team playing 24/7” (25)
игра про деф вашего жилище и мне это нравится) чаще всего приходят бахать в офе( из вас делают элитного охранника вашей будки если есть тим который может играть 24/7 советую (у меня его нет)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-3.59
Balance -3.75
“large teams benefit from hoarding blueprints, solo players disadvantaged” (17)

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Tech & Ops
-2.78
Developer support -1.80

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
60%70%80%90%100%
Dec 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 7,529 reviews, peak 406/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 353 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English29%
  • Russian15%
  • Turkish10%
  • Spanish8%
  • French8%
  • Chinese7%
  • Other23%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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