I love Rust, probably one of my favorite games ever. However, playing on a normal server is pretty much a full time job. It seems that people either move onto something else or become entirely consumed by the game. Any games that are like Rust but aren't like that?
Is this a bit? The only Rust I know of is a programming language.
i only learned of the game when i was searxhing for the offcial rust website lmao
Survival/craft/base building game https://rust.facepunch.com/
To denote how much some.people play it as if it's their job, the devs also made this:
Rust+ Companion | The official Rust companion app – stay connected to the game so you never miss an important moment again. Coordinate with your team, receive alerts when you’re being raided, remotely set off traps, and more!
The addiction in that game is what turns me away from it. I've literally quit hard drugs, and I've seen Rust people drop lower than I'd expect drug addicts threatened with a deadly withdrawal to drop. It's an extremely fun game, but there's something in it that just breaks people. Otherwise, I'd just find a better server and keep playing.
CW: Addiction discussion, drugs
At one point when I had the time, I was playing on a server and using someone (we were friends, I wasn't using him like that) else to infiltrate an enemy clan. The owner of the enemy clan's discord was talking about giving up his child for adoption for more Rust time on Discord calls so many times. I've played a ton of insanely addictive games, but I can't think of any other game that I've seen people casually ruin their lives over. I've literally quit benzos (xanax, I took kpin but close enough) and fent at the same time, I truly have seen it all as far as people casually ruining their lives. Somehow I've seen worse from Rust addicts than I've seen from fentanyl and benzo addicts. Those people can literally die if their withdrawal is big enough (cold turkeying anything over 3-4mg of Xanax a day is a death wish), so I can sympathize with people in that situation. However, I've still seen people addicted to Rust make decisions that I haven't even seen people make with the threat of full addiction/possibly dying from withdrawal make
The amount of addiction in that game is disturbing beyond anything else. I've literally seen people handle fent withdrawal better than putting down Rust, it genuinely makes me sick. If it wasn't that bad, I'd just find better servers. But there's something in that game that can ruin people beyond hard drugs.
I was coming here to make this joke but nevermind, we need to protect you.
Subnautica is the only good survival/craft game out there imo, probably because it's entirely single player
Absolutely terrifying and/or beautiful depending on your tolerance for very deep water and the large creatures who inhabit it.
Like a multiplayer survival/crafting game with base building? Conan Exiles and Ark are the two big ones apart from Rust, and while they can be the same way they don't have to be.
I guess Valheim also fits to a lesser extent.
Ark is absolutely life ruining if you play on official servers. NEVER do this. Play on chill "boosted" PvE servers with friends
It's pretty easy to host your own Conan Exiles server. And it's a much better game than Rust. CW for all RE Howard's bs, though. They toned it down much for the game but Howard was still racist trash. But the core gameplay is a lot of fun especially if you like building huge castles.
You can also try Pathea's games like My Time at Sandrock. I haven't played them but I really enjoyed their older, very weird game Planet Explorers. You could also try X4 if you want something a little different. It's an economy sim in space, but it has surviving and crafting - You build your own space stations and fleets of starship to exert commercial and/or military domination.
If you want the base building and survival aspect but less hardcore you could do either Valheim or Grounded. You can limit both to servers where you just play with your friends. Vastly different games astheticaly from Rust though if that's a deal breaker.
Valheim is a Viking game where you're a dead Viking warrior cast into a purgatory of sorts and have to prove you're worthy of Valhalla.
In Grounded, you're a kid that's shrunk down to the size of an insect and need to find a way to get big again. Not recommended if you're afraid of spiders.
Valheim's boss fights veer into Souls-like territory after the first couple. Hope you like dodge rolling.
Valheim and Grounded are both great. Valheim creates procedurally generated worlds, while Grounded has a static world. So Valheim has a more natural feel which encourages you to chart coasts and biomes without exploring fully, while Grounded is highly detailed and encourages you to go over everything you find with a fine-toothed comb because there are lots of hidden things.
Satisfactory has exploration and base-building elements, but the exploration and combat are pretty bare-bones. The focus is on setting up complicated harvest/production lines in order to progress.
factorio should also be mentioned here, as it is the game that got the factory genre running, and is just extremley polished.
If it doesn't have to be an FPS style... you could try MyHordes
Its ... weird and hard to explain.
Its an online post zombie apocalypse multiplayer co-op survival "board game"(?) that takes place in real time. It is expected that the "town" and all its "citizens" are going to be wiped out. But before then your goals can be to get personal achievements (there is a list of them and how many times you've achieved them on your Soul page), role-play (either working for or against the survival of citizens and the town), outlive all the other citizens (through zombie attacks, their own fatal mistakes, or your own help), or try to coordinate the town's growth and defenses to survive for as many days as possible.
I think the dev team for the upcoming Nightingale includes some former BioWare devs.
i played icarus for a month or so with a friend a while back and enjoyed it. I'm pretty sure we got it for a couple dollars on ebay though and i would absolutely not recommend it for the $30 I'm currently seeing it for. Hard agree with Koba's valheim recommendation, what a masterpiece of a game.
