Rust Reviews for PC

As many other reviews have mentioned, the community around this game is incredibly toxic. On two separate servers I was mocked for not knowing how to begin, when there is no in-game tutorial (even a single pop-up with the basics of hit trees to get wood, hit dark grey rocks to get stone, and pick up hemp or hit cacti to get cloth would have been enough; though the map and sleeping bags could really use an explanation as well). And so after visiting a few extra-game websites to figure out how to start playing what's really a pretty simple game, I finally began.
After waking up naked, I ran up to a tree and started hitting it only to hear someone whisper "Hey, buddy" behind me. I turned around and he killed me with a gun. I woke up naked somewhere else and arrows immediately started flying past my head. I jumped around a bit until the other fellow finally pulled out a gun and killed me. Third time's the charm, right? Nope. After waking up naked, I started running away from the spawn area, only to get sniped at and finally killed by a couple of guys who were quite some distance away.
Finally on the fourth try, I was able to functionally start playing. After a couple of hours, I had a reasonably functioning base; cue a guy trying to sneak up and kill me with a silenced rifle. Luckily he was a terrible shot and I got lucky; I killed him first. I took all his gear and started exploring to see if I could find some of the stuff I couldn't craft myself. About 10 minutes later, I was dead and being looted by a guy with a machine gun.
After restarting again and getting a friend involved (who also was new to the game, but strength in numbers), I got a reasonable base and plenty of supplies. Had high quality metal bars smelted and could craft most of the stuff in the build menu. That was when I realized why everyone sat around killing other players: Unless you're really interested in just exploring the island, there's really only about 10 hours of gameplay here. By that time you'll have a fully functioning base, good armor, and at least a semi-automatic rifle. At that point, might as well just hunt new players as there's not really anything else left to do.

BEFORE YOU JUDGE; I would recommend this game, there is only one HUGE thing that makes it a no from me. The community. This game has beautiful graphics, great survival mechanics, AMAZING guns, awesome tools and buildings, and all around this is a great game on its own. Now, the reason its a no is that the community is horrid, as in 99% of the people you find want to kill you, even if you are a fresh spawn and have nothing. This is a huge game breaker in my opinion because it makes it so the game is WAY too PvP centered and IN MY OPINION, makes for a boring survival game.

This could be a good game, but because of the Cancer Kill on Sight Community i can't figure it out... Thanks for ruining the Game!

The optimization is awful. Expect problems.

Rust is incredibly unfriendly to new players. I say that to point out what kind of community you are buying into here, not to whine. Its a survival game, so some death is expected, however here expect anything you do as a learning player to be destroyed within a day, if it isn't blown up in front of your eyes. There are entire groups of people that play this game solely to hunt down the new people, because they're fresh spawns with no weapons. Many people will simply sit on rooftops and snipe weaker people just for kicks.

I frankly think that any kind of promise this game has is ruined by this, since the entire point of these kinds of games is the online community.

Furthermore, as an edit: Since posting this review, I've had to regularly delete insults, slurs, and all kinds of nonsense from this review. I've even had some particularly brave young souls feel the need to go to my profile and leave spectacularly witty attacks against my person, my intelligence, and such silliness unrelated to Rust. Because I wrote a review for a game in which I said some people acted poorly. Seriously, that's the community for this game. Don't believe me? Check another highly rated negative review that the author doesn't manage. It's vile.

But it isn't just me and my puny 5 hours of playtime saying that. If you feel the need to comment on my playtime, be aware that I will delete your comment as this is not the only account I have played on, and frankly I could idle the game until my account said 500 hours. Playtime is a meaningless statistic. That said, check how many other people acknowledge the toxic community. Even some of the most positive reviews note the community is that special kind of bad, like a spouse who leaves their marraige when the other is terminal.

So, be warned.

Not a fan of this game.

[Community]
The community is VERY toxic. In my initial review I said it was "a tad toxic" however I've had countless abusive comments written on this review, let alone the ferociousness of the players INSIDE the game. I've even had comments written on my Steam profile! Most, if not all of the players inside the game will try and kill you on sight - even if you're a newbie and they're fully kitted out. It's a damn shame but that's how it goes in Rust.

[Bugs and other spastications]
There's a lot of bugs (some small, some large) often involving things clipping through walls which you would have expected to have been fixed early on in the game but still exist three years after the release.

[Servers]
Most servers both modded and vanilla are jam packed with buildings for quite a distance around the various different spawn locations. You can keep server hopping until you find a relatively sparce one but more often than not you'll be killed by one of the many noclipping bears or have your head crushed by the local russian en-route to your new home for absolutely no reason. Clans often dominate servers so a solo or small group of players will not stand a chance in any established server. In other words unless you're a total tryhard, this isn't the game for you.

[Performance]
The optimization is kinda dire - I'm using a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card and an AMD FX-6300 CPU and I can't seem to run the game even on the bare minimum settings without lagging. I don't know if this is because I'm using an AMD CPU and Rust isn't built to be crunched by one or if the game has ♥♥♥♥ optimization in general (To quickly put this into perspective: I'm easily able to rock GTA V at 50-60 FPS with all settings on a mixture of High and Ultra).

[Microtransactions]
Who in their right mind releases microtransactions in an unfinished early access game? The argument promoted by the developers of Rust is that the microtransactions have little to no impact on the game however I personally feel like it's the developers feeble attempt to milk as much money out of this game before the sales dry up completely.

I do believe rust had a lot of potential but it just isn't worth investing in until the developers address issues put forward by the individuals who've been shunned over the past three years for openly expressing negative opinions about the game.


Edit - You might find some additional information about the game in the comments of this review so feel free to check it out and/or leave some feedback for others to see!

Edit 2 - It seems the argument posed by most hardcore Rust lovers is that it takes a long time for you to learn how to play and progress so anybody with a playing time of less than 30 hours has a completely invalid opinion.

Feel free to czech out a positive review to see the PROS of Rust.

Really good game but a very toxic community.

*Wake up naked
*Get killed by a geared guy with assault rifle.
*Realise your rock isn't a good weapon and stop knocking at people's doors.
*Find gear in a airdrop.
*lose it by a geared guy.
*Build a house.
*With a normal lock because your to bad to get a furnace and kill animals.
*Realise how to farm stone
*Upgrade house > Stone
*Wake up next day *raided
*Build a new house.
*Level up.
*Craft your first gun.
*Die by a geared guy.
*Start getting better and learning how to play.
*Do your first raid get loot.
*Start killing nakeds with Ak47's
*Die by a zerg clan.
*Feels bad man.
*Start to play with friends.
*Start a clan.
*Run around with endgame loot on the 2nd day.
*bully solo players.
*Go to bed.
*Wake up raided by a bigger clan.
*You and your friends join bigger clan.
*Bigger clan > Even Bigger Clan.
*Dominating the server.
*Drink bleach
*Die
69/10

Best survival/pvp game ever i.m.o!

I was banned by a dev after someone I was with, killed a streamer. The streamer thought he must be hacking and notified a dev friend to ban him. Three of us immediately banned by a dev. Absolutely none of us were cheating. I did not even kill anyone the entire time. I made a reddit post with the stream video clip. Nobody wants to listen, oh you got banned you are a hacker. Let me tell you this can happen to anyone. I understand the firm stance on cheating but once in awhile a mistake is going to be made. All they have to do is take a second look at the situation. I hope FacePunch will look into the matter and we are waiting to hear back. Rust is a great game but this isn't fair.

I really enjoy this game, but I finally ended up giving it up for a multitude of reasons. In my defense, I rarely quit games unless they have serious problems, and in this? The problem is the playerbase.

People in this game are cancerous beyond measure and seem to do anything in their power to hinder anyone who joins the game rather than help. Needless to say, you'd either need to be a recognized youtuber,or etc figure, or in some clan, if you want to survive for an extended period of time.

The game does a lot of things well, and I honestly enjoy it. The graphics, along with PVE gameplay are amazing by themselves. But, again, the hellbent playerbase seems to only enjoy one thing:

♥♥♥♥ing your day up.

>Joined server for first time after buying the game
>im naked chopping trees n ♥♥♥♥
>hear footsteps near
>think oh ♥♥♥♥ im gonna get killed already
>hear a quiet Ho ho ho getting louder and louder
>turn around to see a naked guy in a santa hat behind me staring me down
>he throws me a supply drop signal without saying anything
>he noclips off into the sunset

I like this game

Only playable if you dont have a life

Rust delivers you an unfair and cruel survival experience.
-Do not buy this game if you don't have time as this is a huge grind and extremely hard for new players.

Rather than reviewing the game like I usually do, I will tell you what the experience with it was for me (since it's hard to review an early access game), and how it may go like for you too:

First you spend 10 hours setting up your stone base and crafting arrows and a bow just to have a big group of people with C4 come and take it away from you instantly, take away all your stuff, and make you realize how horrifyingly cruel a game can be. All your hard work for nothing.

Every single bush can have someone with an AK ready to shoot you down and take your stuff, every single person you meet only wants your resources for his own needs, no one will be friendly.

After you realize the terrifying truth about this game, you get a bunch of friends and you join a server. Every singe person you see shout friendly gets instantly shot in the most brutal manner and you steal all his belongings. Resetting his 20 hours of solo adventures, feeling no mercy, feeling no remorse for your horrific actions.

You have became a monster.

Welcome to Rust.

Rust legacy was so much fun!
RUST was a survival game where you had to battle the elements/animals/people.
Now it is nothing more then a free for all deathmatch with clans ruling the servers.
Weirdly enough in old rust this was never a thing, ofc KoS was a thing now and then.
But it has never been like this, before it was a game is he friendly or not?
Now you know 100% sure you gotta kill him or he kills you.
I was one of the people who were hyped about the new rust that they promised.
And everyone know it was gonna take a while since they started from scratch.
But now looking back at everything that happent I wish they would have sticked to the legacy version.
The graphics have improved but with that has everything been said...
Graphics don't make a game, and while they did upgrade the graphics they forgot the game.
Welcome to naked battlefield with basebuilding!!!

I love this game. you start with a rock and end with ak's running around killing people while you let stuff smelt at your home. or so it was like that before the new xp system came about. now the game is "go out your house with a crossbow or a bow (doesnt matter cause they both do same dmg...) and a pair of mining tools. hit trees, rocks and any live animal to level up. reach a decent level by the end of the day, go home and find your base totally destroyed by a clan of 10 who got to max level 5 min into the new wipe with xp sharing. I wanna end this review with a short letter.

Dear Facepunch,
You ♥♥♥♥ed your own game in the ♥♥♥ and made it boring for the solo/small friend group players. Fix your life, and your previously awesome game.

Best Regards,
the whole ♥♥♥♥ing community(except for the 10 man clans)

Let me tell you the short story of Rust.

Day 1: Legacy - Rust is born! Fun game, solo players and small, 2-3 man groups have a chance against larger groups.

Day 2: Experimental/New Rust - Rust is reborn! Still fun (arguably), small groups got nerfed but still stand a chance.

Day 3: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 4: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 5: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 6: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 7: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 8: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 9: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 10: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 11: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 12: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 13: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 14: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 15: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 16: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 17: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 18: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 19: solo player nerf, clan buff

Day 20: solo player nerf, clan buff

etc. until:

Day X : solo players & small groups quit, big clans have nothing to do and are too scared to fight eachother, game dies.

Bye, Rust. It's been fun till you ♥♥♥♥ed it up. Over, and over, and over again.

Useless Developers! Dont actually understand that the reason BPs was so good! Maybe the fact that you had a chance of picking up something good to craft but no...... Lets just let them grind XP....No actually lets change it to components and let them grind that!
Helk is a useless developer thinking hes knows the way forward. Doomed project, Buy if you want but you'll never experience the greatness of rust anymore as they have completely nerfed out casual gamers! If you have no life and you spend 10 hours a day playing then buy it and enjoy it until you realised this is an empty, boring grinding game.....Tiny amounts of fun at times but nothing really impressive

Rust as a game is good; even with the new XP system however unless you're playing with a dedicated clan and are prepared to put some serious hours into learning about raid proof base designs then this game isn't for you. This isn't a salty opinion; the development team are very clear this is a clan based game design.

If you're a random guy or girl who has seen someone playing on Youtube and think it will be a laugh; save your money. Your nice 3x3 will be offline griefed most days and like so many other players the reality of starting from the begining each time you play will be what your gameplay consists of and it will be become hours of chopping trees, hitting stones, being killed, losing it all.

with all the new updates the game is dying all the streamers that used to bring people to the game have quit due to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gameplay garry has made it even harder to join a server late in the wipe by nerfing the early game weapons and making them useless against fully geared people im convinced that garry is just killing his own game so he can abandon it like he does with everyone of his games without upsetting too many people please garry get ur ♥♥♥♥ together im also sure noone that works on this game actualy plays this game (full nerd) like many people do because if they did there would be alot of changes for the better

EDIT looking at the new changes to early game damage buff (arrow headshot multiplyer 1.5x was .5x and throwables headshot multiplyer) also with lower crafting times that in the past required 20 people to craft just to make raiding equiptment like gunpowder and lower level requirements for necessary items armored door exc. we will see if this update is for the better or worse

THIS REVIEW IS NO LONGER UP TO DATE! I stopped playing a while ago and can't judge the current status. This review has been written months ago and doesn't represent the game anymore.


This game used to be great. It had a very special play Style with collectible Blueprints for guns and other items that was quite unique. I won't go into Detail cause it has been removed and replaced with an exp System.

I used to play this game from time to time but only for so long. I enjoyed having a small Base and collecting Blueprints, being able to build high end guns and compete with others eventually.

Sadly this doesn't work anymore. You can't research guns you find or be lucky and get a blueprint, you have to Grind exp to level up and unlock it. I put a few hours into the game since that Update and I hated it.

The game now feels like a Grind Simulator. There is not a lot to do except for farming resources to earn exp. After a couple of hours I gave up. This game is sadly no longer the Rust I played for the past years.

If you are able to put a decent amount of hours into the game, you will still be able to enjoy it but it is too time consuming if you have a job/ go to school and can't put dozens of hours into it per week.


This exp system is my biggest issue with the game at the moment, though there are man other issues aswell. Bugged animal ai, Items nerfed into Oblivion and performance issues are just a few of them. It is an early access game, but it has been for years. If I look at other early access Games I can see more progress than in Rust - which is sad, cause the game had potential and still has it, the Devs just seem to make the wrong decisions at the moment.

If anything changes and the game feels more like harsh survival and less like a grind Simulator, I will happily recommend this game, but currently there are just too many issues with the game in my opinion.


For anyone interested in buying the game: I would wait a couple of weeks to see how the exp system turns out.
At the moment Rust feels less like a game and more like a job if you actually wanna compete with others, therefore I DO NOT recommend it

Rust use to be amazing. One month a go I would have told you 100% to buy it. Then the XP update came. Now you grind for 10 hours a day for a week just to get what you need. By then everyone on your server has quit and a server wipe along with your XP won't be far away. Devs have said they don't care basically, they are doing it their way.

So they removed the level system but the game still feels bad.

I mean, don't get me wrong, maybe I'm too old-school, but if you compare the current version with the december 2014 one (Rust 2.0 at the beggining) you will see that the game was A LOT MORE fun in the past. Even the legacy version felt more complete and better than the current state of the game. To be honest, adding a ♥♥♥♥ ton of new materials doesn't make Rust any better.

And to describe you how Rust was destroyed, I say it loud: I can't even play on the officials anymore. Why would I do that? For building a base in 5 hours and getting it raided in 5 minutes? It really makes no sense. I mean, in the past, you used to gain resources easier and you still had a chance alone against groups.

If the legacy version or the previous version (december 2014 to be specific) would replace the current Rust, I'd give it a positive review with my heart. It's so sad seeing an incredibly addictive and good game turning into garbage.

Maybe Facepunch will make Rust great again in the future. At least, we should still keep our hope. Until that happens, I highly suggest you to avoid buying it.

I want to love this game, I really do. However, I cannot stand the developers. Slowly but surely, the game is slowing being caterted toward groups and, let's be honest, hackers. The official blogs even singles out and makes fun of people being "lone wolves." We get it Facepunch, groups and hackers will give your game more sales than us loners. Thus, I cannot recommend a game whose developer actively work against me.

LATEST UPDATE TO RUST

Why are you hitting that rock? To survive? To make something you need in the world?… no… to get XP.
Why are you killing that animal? To eat? To prolong your meagre existence?… no… to make a flashing star pop up and a bong noise happen
How did you learn to make that item? By finding another in the world? By discovering an object that youve risked your precious life to go and find? By exploring and interacting? Trading even? Practicing something related?…. no, I hit a rock repeatedly… oh, and I dropped an axe ages ago. (?)
Do I care if I die?… No, it was worth it for the xp.

Rust is the kind of game that can be extremely frustrating playing solo, but a lot of damn fun if you play with a friend. I nearly gave up in the beginning, but I'm glad I didn't. Once I had worked out the mechanics and how to start from fresh every time I died it became a lot more enjoyable.

Here's a few tips I hope will help fellow explorers starting out.

- Harvest enough wood and stone for a hatchet (you will double your wood income per hit)
- Make a map from paper (Useful when exploring, so you can see places you've already been) [optional]
- Craft a pickaxe (double your loot from mining rocks)
- If I've found no cloth I make a wooden spear to launch at animals. If I have cloth, I'll make a bow instead. Basically I want to make sure I've always got some kind of ranged weapon on me because those animals can run fast, and you want to kill them before they run through a wall, or scale a mountain you can't access.

Found a nice area full of wealth? Throw down a sleeping bag in a safe place so you can respawn there when you die (Yeah, not IF you die. When).
Be sure to collect mushrooms, pumpkins or any other food source you find along the way. If you don't find any animals for meat, these are good alternatives to keep you going.
Try not to eat everything at once, as tempting as it might be when starting out. Exploring takes a lot out on you and you always want to make sure to have reserves if you find a zone with very little food.
If you play on a busy server there are generally abandoned campfires all over the place. Save yourself some wood and just use one of those to cook your meat. If you're lucky enough there might even be some leftovers in there for you.

Finally, the community is pretty bad in general. Don't trust anyone. Even if they seem friendly at first, they will most likely turn on you. Some guy invited me into his base, locked me in a room for 10 minutes then finally came back and shot me with an ak47. I was completely naked with just a rock, torch and wood on me. There was no need to do that, but they will anyway.
If you see someone, run in the opposite direction as fast as you can. If you have a decent weapon, don't run around with it. Have people believe you only possess a rock and they will become overconfident, then pull out your tommy gun and fill them full of holes when they approach.
Rust community has a shoot on sight mentality, so keep that in mind always. If you're playing like a paranoid person then you're doing it right.

Happy exploring!

I woke up on a beach, naked and hungry, while walking inland looking for food a deranged naked man tried to abduct me, so I smashed his head in with a rock and ate him

Then I left Somalia, went home and bought rust

Rust is really a lot of fun. It's hardcore survival. You have to build, and in order to do that, you need to gather resources. You must be careful because as you gather, someone might kill you. If you die you start over, with nothing. It's a ruthless and savage world. Rust is a game that required me to become emotionally invested, and when I got killed by 16 year old cheaters, it ruined the experience.

Rust is plagued with cheaters/hackers. The systems that they have in place to even detect these people are practically usless. This game has an AWESOME foundation. It can be so much more awesome but the devs are extremely short sighted and I don't think they really care about cheaters. Or the direction of the game. I'm pretty sure they just roll the dice and go in a random direction with development.

BEFORE YOU DOWNVOTE ME, I realize this game has a LOT more going for it than 99% of other "Early Access" titles. Just understand that it's equally broken/unfinished/bug ridden, as those same games. It's just more "centrally complete" with more functional systems.

456 Hours of Rust at this time. Here comes my review on the game in it's current state: Rust is an amazing game, one of, if not the best survival games on Steam right now. But the thing that drives everyone, literally ♥♥♥♥ing everyone away from it, is it's community. The community in Rust is quite possible the most toxic and unfair group of people you will ever lay your eyes upon and you might truly think they all deserve to die, they might. On modded servers where you don't have to farm for an hour before you're able to even think of getting a base, still, it's nigh impossible to play without a group of 4 people or more because you will be demolished by every squeaker who gets a waterpipe regardless of skill.

Now on vanilla servers....where the gather rate is NORMAL....there comes to issue of a broken keyboard/monitor etc. you will be out alone for a VERY long time and the second you run into one person with better things than you, you have to start over ALL. OVER. AGAIN. It's very repetitive unless you have a group of your closest friends to play with you so you don't get destroyed. On the decent side, again, Rust is a very amazing game without the community, with great building systems, radtowns to find loot, and an amazing world to explore. But once more, stay away from this game until the community grows up and finally finishes 3rd grade, or you have a group of friends to enjoy the game with you.

Hi there. ive been playing rust for a few months now.
recently ive been playing alot of solo. it gives me a greater sense of freedom. achievement.
But, ive stopped playing now. I really love this game so much, but the way the game is now, it wants you to play every hour of the day.
especialy with the way cupboards and decay works. wanna take a day, or 2 break from the game?
Nope.
wanna do that without your base getting turned over? Nope
but thats just rust. and i accept that.
solo rust is hard mode. i accept that.
but when your farming. and 3 guys, fully geared jump you, theres nothing you can do.
same sort goes for the rad towns.
you always. ALWAYS got a group of ♥♥♥♥ing roof campers at most of the radtowns. its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t.
but as a solo player ive gotten to the point where i just cant be bothered to play like this.
some of you will say. git gud. or go play minecraft.
well tbh i rather would go play minecraft at this point.
atleast its not the most stressful ♥♥♥♥ing game in the world. that near enough gives you a heart attack when you get suprised headshot.
I do NOT recommend getting Rust unless it's on sale perhaps.

Thanks for reading.

This is a negative review ONLY because of the terrible rust community.

Rust is a great concept and I love it. It has many hours of fun buried with in it. Whether it is building a base or hunting animals, it's a fun game. But spawning in and dying from guns and crossbows for no reason is a terrible experience and this is what happens 90% of the time.

I've encountered this problem so many times over my 60 hours of playtime. Once I loaded into a server with 100 people on it and started to grind for 1 hour to build a base for my friends and somebody with a crossbow and shotgun and killed me, for doing NOTHING!

The rust community is by far one of the worst gaming communities I have ever played in.

This game is good if you have friends who are willing to tough it out and try and counter these scumbags. I've tried for over 60 hours and I can't seem to find any peaceful rust player who won't backstab me. It's unacceptable!

The rust community is beyond redemption, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

Spawned in server, 30 seconds later shot in the head. I think to myself why did i buy this game? I contemplate even respawning but i do. Only to be greeted by a man named Pablo. Pablo was a man of many talents, he took me under his wing and told me to follow him back to his base. I was not anticipating getting locked in a jail cell along with many other fresh spawns beside me, each in their own cell. Each cell had a window and i was on the ground level of the compound. I looked outside, we were surrounded by high stone walls and there was no way for anyone to get in and rescue us i thought, I was wrong. That night i heard explosions and looked out as i saw a wall come crashing down before me, it was a group of 3 people, but they were no match for Pablo, he shot all 3 but not before 1 chucked me an AK through the window... I wondered what i could do with this, could i kill Pablo having only played the game for half an hour? I waited for him to come with food and i launched my attack, he opened my door and i shot him in the head. I looked in his corpse and saw something i never thought i would, he was holding the rocket launcher the 3 men used to break through the walls previously. 7 Rockets were also there, i ran to the exit and blew out, using 4 of the 7 rockets in the process, Pablo was outside, i used a 5th rocket and blasted him. 2 left. I look to my left, there it was, the hole in the wall but i wanted more revenge, i decided to head further into the compound using my last 2 rockets to blast through a wall which had Pablo's sleeping bag and Tool cabinet in it. I struck gold. I authorised myself and destroyed Pablo's sleeping bag - I was now the ruler of Pablo's prison. I then did the same to Pablo as he did to me only to be raided by another group of people and lose my prison, the cycle repeats itself. 10/10 Would be imprisoned, take over the prison, and lose the prison again.

Rust = Survival of the fittest

If you want a game about peace, love and dancing in poppy fields then this game is not for you :) So for all the negative reviews about a toxic community I would simply suggest that you don't understand the nature of this game.

Everything you do in rust needs to be assessed from the perspective of "how will this benefit me, and what is the risk" so when you find another player you need to asses the risk in wanting to have a nice talk with a random player who appears "wink wink" to be friendly as this may result in having your brains blown out. In rust you need resources to build, if you "steal" another players resources i.e. (blow their brains out and take from there corpse) you can build faster and protect yourself better. There is also an advantage to forming a group but this comes with its own risk i.e. could I tolerate this squeakers voice for more than 10 minutes, will he betray me, is he utterly useless, is his cod piece bigger than mine. :)

Every encounter is a adrenaline fuelled adventure leaving your heart pounding and your butt cheeks clenched, oh and either the euphoric thrill of victory from defeating an enemy or resisting the urge to punish the keyboard when you get shot. No other game I know of lets you grind your enemies into dust quite like rust, first you kill them, then chop the body up for meat, then destroy their base, then take all the resources they spent hours collecting, and last up dinner time "fillet of enemy" whilst telling the guy you killed your eating him in chat :).

You start with nothing but a rock and a torch but with enough time and dedication you can build an empire. You don't need a team to survive in rust although it does make it easier. Anyone can have a big base with all the trimmings if you play smart.

I have over 1200 hours in this game and have only every seen a few hackers, if you play on a server with active admins they will ban the hacker immediately. If anyone wishes to buy the game but does not want to play alone then add me on steam and you can join my group of players and we can give you the rust crash course.

>Be me
>Fresh spawn looking for supplies and maybe an ally
>Find a guy with a gun
>Tells me "I have some spare gear at my base"
>*follows him*
>I'm inside his house right now
>I hear another voice
>It's another guy
>Gun guy locks the doors
>Tells us to fight
>I'm fighting this naked guy with a rock
>Kill him
>Gun guy tells me my only food is human meat and I'm his fighter
>He takes me to an arena to fight other guys
>A guy I start fighting with starts screaming tells me he doesn't want to fight
>He gets shot by another gun
>I loot his body and find a bow with arrows
>On the way back to my cage with gun guy I turn around and headshot him killing him
>I take his gun and keys and take over his base
>Decide to live at his base
>On the way back to his base I found another fresh spawn
>Decide to help him on the way to the base with the guy
>I decide to make him my fighter
>I make him fight another naked guy
>an hour later I'm shot in head by my fighter with a bow
10/10 The cycle continues

Found someone's house and knocked on the door with no weapons drawn as I only had a rock, torch, and a spear.
The occupant opens the door and listens to me ask for food in exchange for wood.
He murders me with a sword.
I swear revenge.

I begin preparations.
I searched barrels, boxes, crates, anything that could give me the tools I needed to avenge myself.
And it came to me.
A gracious barrel with a curious object.
A flamethrower.

I found just enough materials to repeair it and fuel it.
I made a few spears and found a grenade.
I found his house (again).

I waited until dawn to see if he would leave to forage the nearby ruins of an airfield.
He left.
With the door open.
The first mistake.

I began burning the wooden foundations with my fury and watched as it burned.
I entered the house after the first flames died down.
Bedrolls and beds in the open (respawn points).
I destroy them with my own sword.

I set the house aflame from within and watch.
It is the most beautiful sight my eyes will ever behold.

The owner returns.
The house is in shambles.
He fires a shell from his pipe shotgun.
He fails to kill me.
I throw my spear straight into his face.
He goes down.
"How does it feel to have your house burned down by the hands that you wronged?"
I strike the final blow.

13/10, would burn someone's house down in revengence again.

I live in a concentration camp where I am forced to draw paintings for my masters

Rust is such an interesting game. It's a very original concept, having to survive from literally nothing, and building yourself and your clan up to be the strongest in the server. Only, there's several major problems with this game, and that's why I can't reccomend it.

Concept: Like I said, when I first started the game, I loved the concept, from nothing to riches and power. However, when you get into the specifics, there's really no end game. You either build yourself up enough to be strong and not be radied (boring) or, you become the raiders (which almost always stops being for fun and turns ugly and volitile.) So essentially, this game unintentionally breeds a bad community. Also, there are far more chances to lose than their are to win. You either are the strongest and don't get raided, or work constantly only to lose your stuff to a group of people who spend more time in this game. Time + Group = Win. Nothing else works.

Community: The community in this game is, frankly, horrible. It's kind of a domino effect - new player sees a group, group kills him on sight, --> new player learns that game is about getting a group together and killing on sight. It's gotten to the point where maybe 1 in 15 people I see in this game do not kill me on sight, even after stating I'm friendly.

Developers: This is probably one of the main issues with the game, and surprisingly, it's not something I see adressed often in reviews. To me, development of this game has halted. For a game that's reportedly in "early alpha" for over 2 years, the last thing players want to see is the devs changing the size of rocks and plants and calling that an update. My defintion of developing a game, espcially one that is in "early alpha" is adding new mechanics, not tweaking already existing things in the game. This game follows the same exact formula of the piles and piles of steam games which have been abandoned half developed, but I'm sure there always will be hopefuls to tell you differently, there always are.

There's also a hacking problem which the developers are trying as hard as they can to ignore. The addition of anti cheat didn't seem to change a thing.

Overall: This game is conceptually flawed, failed from the beginning. The devs had an amazing idea, but failed to fix the specifics, and the game slowly descended into madness from there. While some people may have a fun time playing this game, the foresight that I have, that there is literally no end-game, makes any time or effort I spend on this game abolutely futile.

met some guys
they let me join them
i help them, harvest, gather, kill for them
they shoot me in the back of my head with my own pump-shotgun
they forgot to remove the sleepingbag i put in their base
i spawn
find a granade
i lure them in to the loot room
once they open the door i yell:
ALLAHU AKBAR.
*kaboom*
all chests are gone, and everyone died.

10/10

Unfortunately, everything after Rust Legacy went downhill fast. Rust Legacy, though it was buggy and rough around the edges, was incredibly fun. The community was not nearly as bad as the new Rust. Some of the best times I've ever had in any multiplayer game were spent in Rust Legacy. I miss it.

The developers have added little new content to the game in its nearly 3 year Alpha development. Instead, they have highlighted and refined features in the new Rust that brings out the worst in its community. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why the new Rust that strips away many "survival" aspects and turns it into a cancerous FPS. With hackers and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s running wild, the game is nearly unplayable unless you play with a group. There is no cooperation. It's 100% KOS. You will die and lose everything as soon as you log out.

There isn't a clear direction for the game, either. Most of the dev updates are bug fixes here and there, new buyable in-game items and textures, and petty things. The anti-cheat system is practically useless. The optimization is terrible. The community is - saying it again because I cannot stress it enough - absolutely ♥♥♥♥ing horrendous.

There are a few good things to say about the game, though. For one, the graphics are quite nice if you have a high-end PC that manage to run it on high graphics settings. The building system is also pretty good, though Legacy's was better. The maps are huge and procedurally generated (if that's your thing - personally, I preferred Legacy's predetermined map much better).

I don't regret buying it because of the many wonderful hours (over 200 if you count the hours from my previous account) I spent in Rust Legacy. However, I cannot recommend the current version. This game is dead to me.

Encourages and feeds the worst sort of toxic gamer ♥♥♥♥♥♥ behaviour. Cannot want to like this game enough but be so dissappointed. Needs some mechanics or incentives to work with other players. I do appreciate the realism and sandbox style of it alot, this could be a really good game. The flaw is, when respawning and death still follow deathmatch style rules, no value is placed on letting players live. You've only created fake realism where misanthropes can validate there hate.

Damn man, Ive never wanted to give a good review for a game but just not been able to. Rust has some great things going for it but to keep the review short I'll tell you the main two reason that this game gets a big thumbs down. First off Rust has been in early access for years but it really seems like they just threw it together last month. Second one is the true deal breaker for me, worst community I've ever seen or even heard about. Of course you run into nice folks on a rare occasion, but the vast majority are pubesent boys working through issues (or seem like they are). Logging on to a random server in Rust is like a snap shot of a middle school lunch room. P.S. I tried PvE but Rust in its very incomplete state really does not lend it's self well to non PvP)

Amazing game with everything I'm looking for, but a horrible, horrible community. Can only reccomend playing if you have a friend so you can fend for yourselves before the top players kill you on sight.

>Found an AK-47
>Shot 8 naked people
>Came home and played rust

A naked guy showed up at my front door and offered to renovate my house. 10/10 would receive remodelling services from homeless man again.

Now for the actual review... This game is absolutely brutal, but it's ridiculously fun. You can spend hours gathering stuff and building an amazing base, only to have some jerk come by and blow it up. I've been killed by bears, chased by helicopters, and shot by strangers. I've claimed an island for my own, built up an arsenal of weapons, and lived in a cave. I've made some awesome friends and dangerous enemies. Once you learn the basics, this game is an absolute blast (sometimes literally... heh, c4).

My advice? Find a small, well managed community server to play on. I've avoided official servers so far and have had a blast on an unmodded community server. With 10-20 people, there's plenty of space for everyone to grow into while still forcing people to interact (and sometimes fight).