Games like Under the Rust
If Under the Rust is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bastard's Throne, Llanthmar and Dwellers of Terra — 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 Under the Rust: Under the Rust is a tactical UI-based bunker simulation. Take control of the C.O.R.E. system, manage life support resources, assign personnel, and survive the post-apocalyptic decay.
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Bastard's Throne
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Top pick for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Under the Rust.
You are the Bastard, the secret heir to the dead King. The throne is yours, but the kingdom is ablaze with intrigue. Every decision is fateful: execute the traitors? Marry for convenience? Start a war? Weave conspiracies, uncover secrets, choose the path to greatness or ruin. Rule or perish!
Llanthmar
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Second-strongest match for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Under the Rust.
Llanthmar is a turn-based, strategy game that tasks you with ensuring the survival of your lost colony on an unknown planet. Gather resources, manufacture supplies, and fight back against anything that threatens to take them away.
Dwellers of Terra
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Third-strongest match for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Under the Rust.
A first-person survival colony sim. Scavenge, craft and repair a broken colony. Recruit survivors to help you produce valuable resources and defend against a constant barrage of deadly attacks.
Shardpunk
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Ranked #4 for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Under the Rust.
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Song's Fantasy
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Ranked #5 for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Under the Rust.
This Chinese martial arts sandbox game blends character growth, adventure, survival, and building. It offers varied regions, towns, factions, engaging NPC interactions, and branching narratives. The combat system is novel, focusing on troop arrangement and skill cards, with replayable talent points.
Sheltered 2
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Ranked #6 for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Under the Rust.
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Super Robot Wars 30
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Ranked #7 for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Under the Rust.
30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.
Caravaneer 2
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Ranked #8 for Under the Rust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Under the Rust.
A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Under the Rust.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Under the Rust.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Under the Rust.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Under the Rust.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Under the Rust.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Under the Rust.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Under the Rust
- What games are most similar to Under the Rust?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Under the Rust are Bastard's Throne, Llanthmar, Dwellers of Terra.
- Who developed Under the Rust?
- Under the Rust was developed by Rotten Byte 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 Under the Rust.
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