Rusted Moss
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.99)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible with at least 500MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in January 2026. It has been discounted 27 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51).
78 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 482 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.2 hours. Doing everything runs 19, 2.6 times as long.
The drop-off
87% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
35 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Practically perfect in some ways. Movement is complex in a way that becomes intuitively surprisingly quickly. Something feels immediately right controlling this character, and that's really all it takes for me to love this game. The world is interesting to inhabit, and it comes together in ways I didn't expect, in places relevant to the main plot and not. Late game areas especially can be punishing in inconsistent...
I bought this game and then didn't play it for a few years, huh. A really fun metroidvania that can be completed in a day or two if you wish to. Not that it feels short by any means I'd say it's the pretty perfect length for what it is. Fun characters, some good mysteries to explore. An upgrade system which allows for great customisation in playstyle.
A really beautiful metroidvania with a difficult-to-master but incredibly expressive movement system. One of the most underrated games of 2023.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Rusted Moss scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1772830/rusted-mossReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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