
My experience with this game was a special one, because at the time, Rust was branded as “early access” or something similar.

From there, to hear others tell it, you can build structures, craft advanced tools, form alliances, and generally make something of yourself. It’s a first-person, open-world, massively-multiplayer survival game that drops you in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a rock and a torch. Continuing.Ĭonceptually, the game certainly seemed fun enough to try. I wholeheartedly agree with every opinion of it that anyone has ever had, even if those opinions directly conflict with one another.

I have no idea whether this game is good or bad. But most importantly, it noted the 26 minutes I spent in the world of Rust. It’s logged the hundreds upon hundreds of hours I’ve buried into games like Civilization and RimWorld. Steam was there for that, and Steam is there today on my work computer, patiently enduring uninstallations and reinstallations whenever I frantically clear hard drive space to make space for an exporting video project. This sounds like a lie but isn’t: upon pulling out the jumper, I had to wait and listen for the motherboard to make a little squeak before replacing it. The tower was permanently missing its cover, because every time I had to restart the machine, I first had to dig into the motherboard to remove the little plastic CMOS jumper for a moment and stick it back in. It lived within them all, including the desktop PC so hideous that multiple burglars, in the process of lifting whatever they could grab from my apartment, clearly took one glance and correctly identified it as trash. Steam is sort of the traveling bard of my gaming career, faithfully wandering from computer to computer since 2004. It is the funniest video game I have ever played in my life. That would be the first and only time I ever played it.

In August of 2014, I downloaded a computer game called Rust and played it for 26 minutes.
