This is not to say that alliances cannot be formed – quite the contrary, establishing a strong group of friendly players can help your clan get ahead of the competition much faster and is certainly a winning strategy. Rust rewards gameplay styles that rely on being aggressive, cunning, and opportunistic, which it would be wise to approach other players in Rust with caution rather than open arms. It’s just that the gameplay mechanics of Rust are highly favorable to the type of player known as “griever” – in other words, if you like raiding and looting other player’s camps while the player’s character sleeps or ambushing your opponents right outside of their camps when they least expect you to rob them of their most treasured possessions, you may have a lot of fun here. When we say hostile, we do not mean to insult the player base of Rust, quite the contrary. However, as we mentioned earlier, what sets Rust apart from other games of a similar genre is its competitive and oftentimes hostile multiplayer nature, and we mean this in the best way possible. This forces you to go out into the open world and find something to eat and drink, but also expose yourself not only to animals that can attack you but to environmental hazards such as cold weather, bodies of water that can drown you, and radioactive zones.Īgain, you’ve probably seen this in other games, as there’s nothing particularly unique about the challenges the player faces when trying to deal with the in-game environment.
However, you cannot afford to constantly stay barricaded in your camp, because you’d eventually run out of food or water.
The game is full of aggressive bears, wolves, and other dangerous critters that can turn you into their afternoon breakfast before you know it. You must constantly be on guard for wildlife that can attack you, but you must also keep in check your various meters so that you don’t accidentally die of starvation or dehydration. Man vs natureĪs is with most other survival games, one of the immediate dangers of being put into the world of Rust is the hostile environment. Yes, Rust is a rather grindy game that rewards players who sink a lot of time into it, while punishing those who expect to do well by spending no more than an hour a two a day playing the game. However, more often than not, you’d be coming across blueprints of something that’s useless to you rather than something that could help you in the long run. Early on into the game, you’d not be able to build and create much with what you are given, but through careful exploration, if you are lucky, you’d find blueprints for more advanced tools and structures as well as the resources to bring those blueprints to life. As the game’s developers have stated it themselves, your one and only goal is to survive for another night, and survive you must.Īs soon as you start, you need to start thinking about staying alive, and you need to make good use of those two starting objects that barely qualify as tools to begin the process of setting up a rudimentary camp that will protect you from the elements, wildlife, and other players. Instead, you get a randomly-generated character who starts their journey completely naked, with only a hard round rock and a torch at their disposal. When you join a new server in Rust, you don’t get a character-creation screen where you get to fine-tune the stats and appearance of whomever you’d be playing as. The game combines elements from other popular multiplayer titles such as DayZ, Player’s Unknown Battlegrounds, and Fortnite, Subnautica, and Ark: Survival Evolved, but has a distinct hostile competitive feel to it that separates it from those other games. Rust was first released in its early-access state back in 2013 and had its official release in 2018.
Rust is a multiplayer survival adventure game developed and published by Facepunch Studios.
Alternatively, you can also run Rust on your Mac using cloud gaming services such as GeForce or Boosteroid, in which case you won’t even need to download the game. Rust is a survival game playable on Mac through its official macOS version.