Games like Rust & Shine
If Rust & Shine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sludgineers, Video Store Simulator and I HATE trees, so an ANCIENT VAMPIRE hired me to DESTROY EVERY last ONE — 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 & Shine: Rust & Shine is a cozy incremental restoration game. Mystery antiques arrive buried in rust, clean them, identify them, sell them, and grow a one-man bench into an automated workshop.
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Sludgineers
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Top pick for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.
Video Store Simulator
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Second-strongest match for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Step inside a living video rental store filled with movies and atmosphere. Build, organize, and manage your store as you explore, experiment, and make it your own.
I HATE trees, so an ANCIENT VAMPIRE hired me to DESTROY EVERY last ONE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An ancient vampire hired you to destroy every tree on an island. He wants a holiday without a branch through the heart. Chop, upgrade, hire workers, and automate while you hunt for treasure. A relaxing lumberjack sim where almost everything is destructible. Even the flowers.
Chroma Miners
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Ranked #4 for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Guide Chrobits as they mine, refine, and collect over 16 million unique colors while automating their work in this relaxing incremental game.
Idle Coma Cracker
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Ranked #5 for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Decrypt the memories of our comatose clients, sorry, we meant patients! Earn credibility, tokens and cash. Buy hardware and scale from local machines to cloud computing, datacenters, and power generation. Automate your operation and keep cracking.
Pokremental
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Ranked #6 for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Pokremental is an incremental game where you flip poker cards to earn money. Buy cards and upgrades to earn more money, or hire helpers to automate the process. Gamble at the casino or on the skill tree to progress faster.
Buerokratie Idler: Germany
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Ranked #7 for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
Galacto
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Ranked #8 for Rust & Shine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
A cozy idle game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Run a space gas station, refuel ships, hire bots, chain combo for fat payouts, and rebuild an outpost into the busiest stop in the galaxy!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rust & Shine.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Rust & Shine
- What games are most similar to Rust & Shine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rust & Shine are Sludgineers, Video Store Simulator, I HATE trees, so an ANCIENT VAMPIRE hired me to DESTROY EVERY last ONE.
- Who developed Rust & Shine?
- Rust & Shine was developed by Enigma Games.
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