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24 alternatives to Rust
Rust is an Early Access survival game on Steam
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rust launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Learn to build reliable and efficient software in Rust
2022 · rustadventure.dev · its alternatives →
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I’ve been building termcraft, a terminal-first 2D sandbox survival game in Rust. The idea is to take the classic early survival progression and adapt it to a side-on terminal format instead of a tile or pixel-art engine. Current build includes: - procedural Overworld, Nether, and End generation - mining, placement, crafting, furnaces, brewing, and boats - hostile and passive mobs - villages, dungeons, strongholds, Nether fortresses, and dragon progression This is still early alpha, but it’s already playable. Project: https://github.com/pagel-s/termcraft Docs:…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A guide to aid you in your journey of becoming a Rustacean (Rust developer). - learn-rust-101/README.md at main · plabayo/learn-rust-101
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · paytonturnage.gitbook.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · joelthelion.github.io · its alternatives →
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Fallout Shelter▲180Build your own vault to survive the apocalypse!
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Rust Starter Project. Contribute to rust-starter/rust-starter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · mnml.gg · its alternatives →
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HN discussion about the initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273
2023 · seri.tools · its alternatives →
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"Game" is a stretch, but I put together this repo containing a pure Rust app which uses SDL2 and compiles to WASM (and can be run in a browser). Older resources were a bit out of date and a bit too verbose for my purposes, so here's a minimal working example.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sheltered▲63Build a premo fallout shelter...or else.
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Medieval Multiplayer Builder with Crafting and More
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · play.marcoinacio.com · its alternatives →
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A brutal, yet adorable, roguelike shooter
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A bunker-building survival simulator
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Out There▲91A simple, atmospheric FTL-like space survival game
2015 · outtheregame.com · its alternatives →
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Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…
2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →
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a free-to-play medieval MMO tower defense
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I personally haven't event used or looked at Rust so I don't have an opinion. So now I'm interested hearing what others think? I think the syntax of Rust isn't very appealing, but that's not a good reason to /not/ look at it. Convince me? :)
2018 · its alternatives →
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