If the biggest games on Steam were celestial bodies, Rust would be an especially brown and bloody moon, kind of like the one from Iron Lung but with more survival game dirt and wood. Here in the year 2026, Rust is consistently the most-played survival game on Steam and still getting enormous updates. In a February 5 dev blog, Facepunch Studios unveiled a naval update packing an entire ocean worth of content, from player boats to city boats to evil boats. Oh, and the game is 50% off right now.
"It's a big one," the perilously long post begins, and player-made boats are the leading act. Plop down the aptly named "boat building station deployable" and "get building with your shipmates," sticking on steering wheels, sails, cannons, engines, planks for those 'friends' to walk, and whatever else your salty heart desires. (For building in general, there's a new first-person viewmodel for the planner, which I'm sure is a tremendous change to some.)
