Rust 2 isn't in development, Facepunch boss confirms after suspicious Steam page sparks speculation

Any sequel dreams you had indispensable rust successful peace, astatine slightest for now

Facepunch laminitis Garry Newman has denied that a sequel to survival/naked bloke conflict royale crippled Rust is presently successful the works, aft a Rust 2 Steam listing ignited online chatter on those lines.

Some rusty Redditors spotted the mysterious Rust 2 Steam leafage yesterday, instantly raising their eyebrows. An relationship seemingly belonging to Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane responding to the station with the words "You saw nothing" lone raised those eyebrows further.

Thankfully, Facepunch laminitis Garry Newman has since been little teasy successful a connection to Pondering Cabdrivers Gamer. "We're not making Rust 2," helium said, adding that helium has "no thought astatine all" what the mysterious Steam listing is about.

Said listing's inactive up arsenic of penning if you fancy taking a gander astatine it, but has present been slapped with a informing announcement by SteamDB. "SteamDB unit person flagged this app arsenic suspicious, arsenic it whitethorn beryllium malicious oregon impersonating different product," the announcement reads. "We urge exercising caution and avoiding purchasing oregon downloading this app."

Newman has mentioned a Rust 2 before, but lone arsenic portion of a 2023 station calling retired Unity's massively unpopular effort to present per-install fees. "It's our fault," helium wrote astatine the time. "All of our faults. We sleepwalked into it. We had a ton of warnings. We should person been pressing the eject fastener erstwhile Unity IPO'd successful 2020. Every azygous happening they've done since past has been the nonstop other of what was bully for the engine. We had 10 years to marque our ain motor and ne'er did. I'm definite a batch of crippled companies are feeling the aforesaid today. Let's not marque the aforesaid mistake again, Rust 2 decidedly won't beryllium a Unity game."

So, you can't regularisation retired a sequel perchance being lobbed astatine each of america similar a bare bloke's trusty stone astatine immoderate constituent down the line, but the workplace accidental they're not moving connected 1 close now. The archetypal Rust besides continues to get regular updates, with rusty sailing having arrived successful February this year.