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The Steam player count for open-world survival-crafter Rust has hit a new all-time peak, even though the game is nearing its ...

Many open-world games have a main quest driving gameplay, while others offer total freedom without a specific goal. DayZ and ...

Facepunch Studios celebrates its multiplayer survival game Rust setting a new concurrent player record on Steam, 11 years ...

Survival game Rust reaches a new player count high on Steam, as its producer thanks players for 11 years of support and teases what’s next.

It's been eleven years since the release of Rust and it's just set a new record on Steam with an all time high of over 200k ...

It's almost Christmas, which means Santa is coming to distribute presents to all the good little children—and, somewhat weirdly, put coal in the stockings of kids who have been "bad." Look ...

What are the best survival games? The Steam charts are filled with all kinds of examples, including classic survival horror games and new hardcore survival sims. To help any bewildered adventurers ...

On top of that, we've also added Rust, an online survival with servers that are periodically wiped out. Cooperative multiplayer horror games have become all the rage in the gaming community.

Rust is now more than 11 years old, but for good measure, the game broke its own activity record in 2025. The developers ...

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a ...