Games like War Thunder and Rust
Looking for games like both War Thunder and Rust? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both War Thunder and Rust share Action, Massively Multiplayer 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 War Thunder and Rust 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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World of Tanks
Top pick for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
World of Tanks is a tactical action game with very different gameplay depending on the vehicle type and role. Aside from regular PvP, there are competitive and clan-based modes, special PvE and PvPvE events, and much more. Whether you play to dominate or just enjoy the ride, you'll fit right in.
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Don't Starve Together
Second pick for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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WWII Online
Third pick for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!
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The Front
Ranked #4 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
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Airships: Conquer the Skies
Ranked #5 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
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IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
Ranked #6 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is the continuation of the legendary IL-2 Sturmovik series that has set the standard for PC combat flight games for more than ten years. This new entry into the series will offer virtual pilots an even more accurate simulation of the most famous air battles.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #7 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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Arma 3
Ranked #8 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #9 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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Valheim
Ranked #10 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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The Forest
Ranked #11 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Ranked #12 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
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Battlefield™ 6
Ranked #13 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action with both games.
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.
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EVE Online
Ranked #14 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Ranked #16 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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Insurgency: Sandstorm
Ranked #17 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action with both games.
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
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Hell Let Loose
Ranked #18 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.
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SCUM
Ranked #19 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Ranked #20 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning.
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Green Hell
Ranked #21 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. 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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Enlisted
Ranked #23 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with both games.
In Enlisted, you are not only commanding a single soldier, but an entire squad! This MMO squad based shooter recreates the key battles of the bloodiest war of the 20th century, with hundreds of soldiers, tanks and aircraft taking part in each battle.
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Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Ranked #24 for fans of both War Thunder and Rust. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
Contains full Rising Storm content as well!