Games like Rust and Geometry Dash
Looking for games like both Rust and Geometry Dash? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Rust and Geometry Dash share Action, Indie roots, making the overlapping player base a strong signal for what to play next. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own Rust and Geometry Dash also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.
Best matches for fans of both games
Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.
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Don't Starve Together
Top pick for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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The Impossible Game
Second pick for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie with both games.
The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.
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Valheim
Ranked #4 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Satisfactory
Ranked #5 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Soundodger+
Ranked #6 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dodge the music and dance through a mesmerizing ballet of choreographed bullets, each synced to music from over a dozen international artists. Push your creativity and skills with the fully-featured Level Editor and never run out of things to dodge.
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The Forest
Ranked #7 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Rhythm Doctor
Ranked #8 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Ranked #9 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #10 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Hurtworld
Ranked #11 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
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A Dance of Fire and Ice
Ranked #12 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie with both games.
A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.
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Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Ranked #13 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.
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Factorio
Ranked #14 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Green Hell
Ranked #15 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Starbound
Ranked #16 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Levelhead
Ranked #17 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Ranked #18 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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SCUM
Ranked #19 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
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Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
Ranked #20 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
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Spelunky 2
Ranked #21 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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Voidtrain
Ranked #22 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Beat Saber
Ranked #23 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie with both games.
Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world.
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DayZ
Ranked #24 for fans of both Rust and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.