Rusty's Retirement
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99. Typically $4.68 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.23/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 14,945
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.7h
- To 100%
- 146.7h 4.8x the story
- Achievements
- 71
Price and sales
- Sales
- 24 on record
- Typical cut
- 33% off
- Steam low
- $3.49 April 2026
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 273 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 49% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 8% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 24 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Plantera 2: Golden Acorn ($4.99, scores 91) and Outpath ($14.99, scores 88), are both worse buys on this math.
$40.86 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Rusty's Retirement
Of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 815 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
30.7 hours to finish it, 147 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
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
I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2021 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his...
2 more reviews
Maybe one of the best idle/desktop wallpaper programs ever, cute graphics & steady progression that moves forward but in a slow chill way. Great if you need something on another screen.
give it a little chance to get going and it becomes really fun and charming, although don't expect it not to be distracting while you're working
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX9, 256 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rusty's Retirement scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2666510/rusty-s-retirementReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.