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Red Rust

Red Rust is retro-style side-scrolling game which uniquely combines fighting mechanics with shooting mechanics. The game is heavily inspired by 8bit and 16bit hits of the 90s, but developed with the modern…

31 May 2024

Red Rust is an adventure developed by ArtSource Digital, released 31 May 2024 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Red Rust is

Red Rust is an adventure game developed by ArtSource Digital and released in 2024. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It's the year 1984 and you control Agent Red (or just Red), a soviet KGB officer who has been sent to the West on a secret mission. She is an attractive but brutal and cold hearted girl! Over the course of the game she learns to understand her own emotions and the unfamiliar world around her. As a tough Soviet KGB agent you travel around the world fighting street gangs and giant mechanical monsters on direct order from Comrade Stalin.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Red Rust launched on 31 May 2024, within three weeks of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Hellblade II: Senua's Saga, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Nine Sols.

Released around the same time: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Hellblade II: Senua's Saga, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nine Sols.

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When did Red Rust come out?
Red Rust was released on 31 May 2024 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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