Rusty's Retirement
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 30.7h
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 89% over the last 30 days against 97% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX9, 256 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.49. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 23 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cookie Clicker ($4.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats The Farmer Was Replaced ($7.99, scores 93).
$40.95 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $6.99.
Players rate it 97 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 89 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 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.
The drop-off
93% start to 8% 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
1,185 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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
I played this game as my first idle game, and it made me realize that I'm not really enjoying idle gameplay, but it doesn't make it a bad game. The game is great. Great art style and gameplay mechanics. There are people who would definitely enjoy it. I did enjoy it too, my way ',:)
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...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rusty's Retirement scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2666510/rusty-s-retirementThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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