Games like Rust & Dust
If Rust & Dust is your kind of game, the closest matches are Delta Zero, Gunborg: Dark Matters and Cosmic Tails — 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 Rust & Dust: Rust & Dust is A fast-paced 2D roguelike Shooter about two twin mice fighting through a ruined world. Instantly switch between them, combine their powers, and turn positioning into a weapon. Master the chaos or be overrun!
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Delta Zero
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Top pick for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
A fast-paced action platformer with non-linear world progression and level design! Challenging gameplay with 3 difficulty modes, 2 playable characters and local co-op! Fight bosses in any order and experience the world change with each victory, enemies become harder, faster and smarter!
Gunborg: Dark Matters
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Second-strongest match for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
Harness the power of dark energy as you jump, slash, shoot and bombard your way through an army of alien soldiers and killer robots in an arcade style, twin-stick shooter with a slick 80's synthwave soundtrack.
Cosmic Tails
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Third-strongest match for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
Become the Cat Bounty Hunter. Blast off through deep space as you decimate hordes of space creatures with bounties on their heads. Upgrade unique cat-themed abilities, unlock pulverizing weapons, and survive until your contract expires -- or join the ranks of fallen bounty hunters before you.
NINE ROUNDS RAPID
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Ranked #4 for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
Blast your way to freedom, solo or with a friend in online or local co-op, through a possessed, fragmenting space station. Upgrade abilities, mod your weapon builds, and manipulate time to defeat the station's nine gatekeepers. Power up, progress, and learn the ugly truth with every escape attempt.
Two Sides of Hell
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Ranked #5 for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
Think fast, kill faster. Blast through shifting alien hellscapes in this roguelite platform-twin stick shooter, switching between Soldier precision and demonic destruction. Survive relentless hordes, brutal bosses, and endless roguelite chaos.
Chrome Survivor
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Ranked #6 for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
Scavenger Survivors
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Ranked #7 for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
The machines already won. Now, you scavenge! In this 1-4 player top-down roguelite/survivors hybrid, play as fat scavengers hauling loot from the ruins of the world. Grab and throw anything that isn't bolted down, cram it into your armored RIG, and survive the robot swarm until extraction.
SYSTEMCRASH 92
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Ranked #8 for Rust & Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
A side-scrolling survival roguelite — until you trigger Reality Shift and the arena unfolds into free 3D. Your weapon fires itself; you move, dash and decide. Every run rolls its own archetype, mutator and contract, and the threat scales to your level.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rust & Dust.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rust & Dust.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rust & Dust.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rust & Dust.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Frequently asked about Rust & Dust
- Does Rust & Dust have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rust & Dust supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rust & Dust?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rust & Dust are Delta Zero, Gunborg: Dark Matters, Cosmic Tails.
- Who developed Rust & Dust?
- Rust & Dust was developed by TAP.
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 Rust & Dust.
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