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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.

1. 1
   Rust Adventure▲85

   Learn to build reliable and efficient software in Rust

   2022 · its alternatives →

2. 2AS
   A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust▲456

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3LR
   Learn Rust 101 – A guide to aid your journey of becoming a Rustacean▲114

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Termcraft – Terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust▲136

   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 →

5. 5RS
   Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications▲97

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6SO
   SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust▲245

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7WG
   Write generative fine art in Rust▲306

   2020 · paytonturnage.gitbook.io · its alternatives →

8. 8LS
   Life Simulation Written in Rust▲169

   2021 · joelthelion.github.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Fallout Shelter▲180

   Build your own vault to survive the apocalypse!

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10AE
    An Express-inspired web framework for Rust▲85

    2022 · crates.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Rustbucket▲69

    Roguelike dungeon-crawling action!

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5▲127

    2019 · mnml.gg · its alternatives →

13. 13AF
    A first project in Rust – in-memory order book▲91

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14R1
    Rust9x 1.76-beta – Rust on Windows 95+▲53

    HN discussion about the initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273

    2023 · seri.tools · its alternatives →

15. 15AM
    A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game▲82

    "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 →

16. 16
    Sheltered▲63

    Build a premo fallout shelter...or else.

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Life is Feudal: Your Own▲75

    Medieval Multiplayer Builder with Crafting and More

    2015 · its alternatives →

18. 18AS
    A simple shoot 'em up game using Rust Bevy▲11

    2023 · play.marcoinacio.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Banished▲89

    City-building strategy survival game

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Nuclear Throne▲63

    A brutal, yet adorable, roguelike shooter

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Overland▲108

    Post-apocalyptic survival game

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Life in Bunker▲67

    A bunker-building survival simulator

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Fleet▲87

    The blazing fast build tool for Rust

    2022 · its alternatives →

24. 24AA
    Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust▲90

    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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