Rust
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 1,410,623
- Critics
- 69 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 30h
- To 100%
- 110.2h 3.7x the story
- Achievements
- 116
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.74 June 2018
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 65,456 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $8.74. It has been discounted 69 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games closest to it, SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now ($14.99, scores 1) and Citadel: Forged with Fire ($14.99, scores 20) both come in lower.
More about Rust
69 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 713 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 31,855 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, player trading); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 30 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 110, 3.7 times as much.
1,410,623 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Now don't get me wrong this game with undoubtedly ruin every personal relationship in your life. Im talking girlfriends, wives, kids, friend, pets (yes even your pet fish Greg will die); you can forget about all of those. I have graduated college, lost my virginity, got my first big boy job, achieved great things, but when people ask me what my most prized and favorite memories are in my life I respond, "have you...
2 more reviews
Spawned in with a rock and a bright stick, a russian swearing at me in his native tongue kills me with with a rocket standing on spawn beach. 3.8k hours later and I still cant find him again. Been searching ever since and wont stop. This game took my joy, never to be seen again. 5 stars.
Best game ever even if you get killed by Russians on spawn beach, this game is sooo good. ALL ROADS LEAD TO RUST.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 470, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel Arc A580, 45 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Rust scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252490/rustReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.