Games like The Rusted
If The Rusted is your kind of game, the closest matches are Junk Force, Bolt & Whalington and Relic Light — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Rusted: The world belongs to machines now. Join a loyal robot dog on a journey through a haunting post-apocalyptic world in search of its lost human family. THE RUSTED is a hand-drawn 2D action-puzzle platformer.
Players who liked The Rusted also play
Steam players who put hours into The Rusted also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Junk Force
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Top pick for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Jump while a partner deploys platforms on the fly, all while dodging enemies and hazards to survive the climb to the Air Citadel in this hardcore, 2-player asymmetric precision platformer. And hey! if you suck don’t blame the game—blame your partner ;)
Bolt & Whalington
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Second-strongest match for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Bolt & Whalington is a Metroidvania game where you play as Bolt, a Siamese cat exploring the floating ruins of Whalington. Reshape abilities and rewrite world rules with the "Setting Machine," switch mecha forms to craft weapons, battle enemies, and uncover the secret of Whalington.
Relic Light
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Third-strongest match for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
A pixel-art 2D puzzle platformer with Metroidvania exploration. Join starfarer girl Ling Ao'ao as she meets AI girl ALICE in the ruins of humanity at the universe's end. Befriend companions, gather abilities, solve intricate contraptions, and uncover the cosmos's truth.
Super Blue Bot
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Ranked #4 for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Rusted.
Super Blue Bot is a fast-paced 2D platformer built around simple mechanics and challenging gameplay. Run, jump, and wall jump your way through a variety of levels!Push your skills to the limit, beat your best times, set new records, and master every level. Can you make it to the end?
ECHO
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Ranked #5 for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Leave solid copies of yourself behind — then leap off them. Echo is a precision puzzle-platformer: place echoes to build your path, dash through lasers, and outsmart every room. No story, no filler — just you, your echoes, and the next challenge.
Teios Journey
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Ranked #6 for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Embark on a thrilling adventure through a vibrant world teeming with challenges and mysteries. Traverse diverse landscapes, solve intricate puzzles, and engage in epic battles as you unravel the secrets hidden within the land.
This Code Echoes
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Ranked #7 for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
This Code Echoes is a 2.5D platformer using weapons with directional attacks and multiple weapon slots for great combos. Battle your way through levels and face the bosses and get thier drops to get stronger and find your ultimate build!
Hera´s Revenge
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Ranked #8 for The Rusted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Hera’s Revenge is a mythological action-adventure where your actions reshape the world. Battle across divine realms, forge bonds with companions, and ascend from mortal warrior to goddess through the evolving Living Mythology System.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rusted.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Rusted.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rusted.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rusted.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rusted.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rusted.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Rusted
- What games are most similar to The Rusted?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Rusted are Junk Force, Bolt & Whalington, Relic Light.
- Who developed The Rusted?
- The Rusted was developed by Rodd Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Rusted.
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