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Rodd Games Releases THE RUSTED on Steam for PC

Turkish studio Rodd Games released THE RUSTED, a 2D action puzzle platformer, for PC on Steam.

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Why it matters

THE RUSTED leans on wordless environmental storytelling and hand-drawn art rather than dialogue, a structure that puts the weight of its post-apocalyptic premise on level design and animation instead of script.

Rodd Games Releases THE RUSTED on Steam for PC

Key Facts

  • Rodd Games released THE RUSTED for PC on Steam.
  • THE RUSTED is a 2D action puzzle platformer about a robot dog searching for its lost human family.
  • The game is set in a rusted world after humanity's extinction, with locations including abandoned cities, factories, deserts, and data centers.
  • A launch sale offers THE RUSTED at 20 percent off, 1,680 yen, until November 16, 2026.

Players control a robot dog searching for its lost human family across abandoned cities, crumbling factories, sand-buried deserts, and data centers in a rusted world after humanity's extinction. The game has hand-drawn visuals, platforming, environmental puzzles, and combat against machines with varied behavior patterns. A 20 percent launch sale runs until November 16, 2026, at 1,680 yen.

Rodd Games built the game around a robot dog's search for the human family it lost, and the studio says the story is told through the world rather than through words. Collapsed structures and forgotten lands carry fragmentary accounts of humanity's end, and echoes of the past in each environment become hints as the game progresses.

The stages mix platforming, environmental puzzles, and combat against runaway machines that behave differently from one another. The launch discount of 20 percent runs until November 16, 2026, at 1,680 yen.

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