
Rusty's Retirement is an exceptional Strategy/Simulation that raises the bar for the genre.
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97%
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Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (97% positive from 14K reviews)
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Rusty's Retirement is a 2024 video game by independent developer Mister Morris Games. The game is an idle farming sim in which players assist a robot named Rusty to harvest crops and make upgrades on a farm. The game's user interface is presented as an overlay on the player's desktop, allowing them to undertake other tasks on their computer whilst the game progresses. Upon release, the game received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising the game's addictive nature, passive gameplay design and integration on the desktop. Following release, the game experienced commercial success, selling over half a million copies on Steam.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 19h ago
[b]This is one of those games that really needed a neutral option.[/b] Rusty's Retirement does exactly what it promises: a slow, cozy farming idle game. Once your farm is fully automated, it's genuinely satisfying to leave it running while doing something else and occasionally come back to optimize it a little. That said, the pace was simply too slow for me. I know that's subjective, and I'm sure some people will love it, but I never really got attached to it. Unlocking new farms wasn't particularly exciting either, since they're mostly the same experience with a few gameplay twists, and I had no desire to go through the slow early game all over again. If you're aiming for [b]100% achievements[/b], though, here's a small [b]warning[/b]. Most achievements are perfectly fine, but [u]Harvest 250,000 Crops[/u] and [u]Water 1,000,000 Crops[/u] add dozens of hours of artificial grind. Instead of rewarding natural progression, they encourage planting wheat over and over because it grows the fastest, turning a relaxing idle game into repetitive manual work. Those two achievements alone made the final stretch far less enjoyable than it should have been... Overall, I'd still recommend it if you're simply looking for a cozy idle game to leave running in the background. Just don't expect a lot of depth, and if you're a completionist... your retirement will probably be much busier than [i]Rusty's[/i]!
very good idle, very good, sometimes idle, sometimes not, you can choose, idle or idlenot, but very good, super super super good, VERY GOOD.
Can't recommend at the current price. You get a little fun from this game. The art is cute, and the growth is satisfying, but if you are halfway competent or just leave the game on for a while, you will easily unlock everything in a single sitting and be left with little to do other than unlock all the plants you can plant. This left me feeling like I had nothing left to work for and all the new upgrades felt hollow because of it. I could make more money, but what was there left to buy? (also its a bit of a cpu hog, had trouble running other games or expensive programs while it was up.)
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