It's sometimes hard to believe it's been 10 years since we were born—alone, naked, with nothing but a rock for company— on a server whose hierarchies and power dynamics were a mystery to us until some player with a gun showed up and started ordering us about (that's if they didn't just shoot us first).
Facepunch Studios' Rust is one of the pioneers of the survival genre, first arriving on Steam Early Access in December 2013. From humble beginnings as one of many games following in DayZ's footsteps, built on Unity Engine 4 and originally playable in a web browser, Rust has evolved into its own beast entirely over the years. It unleashed player creativity through a robust crafting system, allowing us to create impressive bases and settlements, and beckoned us to explore its raw, harsh worlds that over the years have extended as far as the underwater realm.
