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Games like Rust 2018
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Rust
Games closest to Rust
Metal Gear Survive 2018Also contemporary, unpretentious and classical in form
7 Days to Die 2024Also contemporary, unpretentious and classical in form
ARC Raiders 2025Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Hurtworld 2019Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Escape from Tarkov 2025Also contemporary, grave and demanding
Subsistence 2016Also contemporary, classical in form and unpretentious
Escape the Backrooms 2025Also contemporary, classical in form and unpretentious
Sons of the Forest 2024Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
The Surge 2 2019Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Ixion 2022Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
State of Decay 2013Also contemporary, grave and unpretentious
The Surge 2017Also contemporary, grave and demanding
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Elfen Lied 2004Also contemporary, overwhelming and unpretentious
Blood+ 2005Also classical in form, contemporary and grave
The Magicians 2015Also classical in form, contemporary and epic
Albums
- K.O.D. 2009Also contemporary, bleak and grave
- Abaddon 2014Also overwhelming, bleak and grave
- CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST] 2024Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Books
The Scarlet Gospels 2001Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
The Stand 1978Also epic, classical in form and contemporary
Blood Canticle 1998Also classical in form, grave and contemporary
Films
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 2026Also classical in form, contemporary and overwhelming
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower 2017Also classical in form, grave and contemporary
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War 2020Also epic, overwhelming and classical in form
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