Rust

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 87%Very Positive · 87%2018

The verdict

Rust is a brutal, addictive PvP survival game where raids, wipes and toxic players drive both the thrill and the pain. Skip it if you're a solo player with limited time or hate cheaters and bans.

Great for

Players with lots of time and friends or a clan who love high-stakes PvP, base building and raiding

Main risk

Losing hours of progress to raids, cheaters or bans, especially as a solo player

What players love

Extremely addictive, time-consuming

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Rust is the kind of game that makes you forget about the real world.”
Steam review · 343.8 h played ↗

“highly addictive in a good way, this game has replaced all my other game for now”
Steam review · 68.8 h played ↗

“A very time-consuming game, but also very interesting.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 151 h played ↗

Emergent stories and sandbox freedom

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“Rust creates stories without even trying.”
Steam review · 455.8 h played ↗

“Everything that happens is created by you: you can build bases solo or team up in clans and take over servers.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 34.9 h played ↗

Welcoming community and calm PvE options

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“Nice calm and relaxing game. New player friendly.”
Steam review · 93.3 h played ↗

“Lots of PVE servers are fun if you don't have the time to devote to the game that some do”
Steam review · 1099.1 h played ↗

Intense, emotional PvP moments

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“Every bit of progress actually feels meaningful because you know you could lose it at any moment.”
Steam review · 439.3 h played ↗

“This adrenaline is a drug. No other game gives such emotions.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 307.6 h played ↗

“Winning a fight when you're outnumbered or successfully defending your base after hours of farming is incredibly satisfying because nothing is handed to you.”
Steam review · 716.3 h played ↗

Fun with friends or a small team

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews

“It's pure fun when you play on a small team!”
Steam review · 24.6 h played ↗

“A very interesting survival game if you play in a group.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 81.7 h played ↗

What players complain about

Poor optimization, crashes and loading

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“Rust deservedly wins the 'worst optimization of the century' category.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 141.7 h played ↗

“Game doesn't even work just keeps crashing when I try to join a server”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗

“cant play with even 8gb vram at all with lowest settings. not optimized at all.”
Steam review · 1096.2 h played ↗

False bans and unresponsive appeals

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“All because EAC/VAC or whoever decided that I was presumably cheating. And now I am not even in position to question, appeal that decision.”
Steam review · 3133.2 h played ↗

“The zero-tolerance cheating policy SHOULD NOT AFFECT HONEST PLAYERS!!”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 1223.5 h played ↗

“False bans me and doesn't give me a reason why.”
Steam review · 740.2 h played ↗

Toxic community and hostile to new players

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“The Rust Community is 99% toxic little basement dwelling clown shoes who get bullied in Life then run home to play Rust so they can bully people online.”
Steam review · 123.6 h played ↗

“you will not have a good time if you are solo. it is impossible to make friends in the community if you have a low amount of hours.”
Steam review · 15 h played ↗

Constant raids, grind and time sink

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“you're repeatedly performing the same tasks just to get back to where you already were.”
Steam review · 490.6 h played ↗

“You can spend an entire day gathering materials, crafting, and expanding your base, only to log in the next morning and find everything gone because your base was raided while you were offline.”
Steam review · 67 h played ↗

Cheaters ruin the game

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“Out of the last 11 attempts with my friends, we got raided 11 times by cheaters.”
Steam review · 4381.7 h played ↗

“cheaters and hackers make the game unplayable”
Steam review · 35.2 h played ↗

“The game's biggest scourge is cheaters, there are tons of them.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 324.7 h played ↗

Blueprint update punishes solos and small groups

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“These fragments are basically only obtainable at monuments which are controlled by larger groups.”
Steam review · 3442 h played ↗

“Makes the game almost impossible for a new or solo player.”
Steam review · 515.3 h played ↗

“With every update the game dies for solo players.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 1620.3 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows 11 64bit

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-6600

Memory12 GB RAM

GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 470, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel® Arc™ A580

Storage45 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 11 64bit

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel® Core i7-6700K

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 6600XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Intel Arc B580

Storage45 GB available space

OSWindows 11 64bit

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-6600

Memory12 GB RAM

GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 470, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel® Arc™ A580

Storage45 GB available space

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