In development · private playtests

Age of Scrap

Start naked. End an empire.

A real-time strategy game mode played inside Rust. You don't swing the rock. You command the people who do.

One round

A wipe in
twenty minutes

Two players, two stone 2x1s and a blizzard between them. Everything a wipe is, played from above, start to finish in one sitting.

  1. Pick your hero

    Each hero brings its own strengths and an ability that covers your whole side while it lives.

  2. Put them to work

    Your recruits wake up on their bags with a rock and a torch. Send them for wood, ore, cloth, food and scrap.

  3. Research and build

    Workbench, tools, weapons from bow to rifle, armor. Your overseer builds the base out piece by piece.

  4. Break their base

    Through the doors, onto the bags, into the tool cupboard. When it falls, the round is over.

What's in it

Built from the game
you already know

Real Rust bases, weapons, monuments and raiding rules, run as a strategy game.

01

Recruits with roles

Gatherers, road farmers, foragers and fighters. Rank them up from Naked to geared, arm them one at a time, and change their job whenever you need to.

02

Bags are lives

A recruit respawns on its sleeping bag and walks back out the door. Lose the bag and its next death is final.

03

A base that grows

Airlock, honeycomb, jump-up, a second storey. Walls go up twig and get hammered to stone, hard side out.

04

Monuments worth fighting for

Send a recruit inside to strip the loot. If the other side walks in after it, somebody isn't walking out.

05

Fog, night and snow

You only see what your own people can see. Their torches and your neon are the only light in the storm.

06

Player or CPU

Queue for a 1v1, or start a round against a computer opponent that gathers, researches, builds and raids.

Status

Not open yet

Age of Scrap is being built and tested on a private server. Four heroes are planned for launch and sixteen in all. This page will say when and how to join once there is a server to join.