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Rustbucket Rumble cover art

Rustbucket Rumble

Reactor Zero · Scrap Yard Productions, LLC · 2015-05-04

Steam

ActionCasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 04, 2015 (Mac), May 04, 2015 (Linux)

Rustbuckle Rumble is a side-scrolling, team-based, arena combat game - WITH ROBOTS! Inspiration for the mechanics was taken from classic run and gun games mixed with more modern, class-based, multiplayer shooters. It’s capture-the-flag where the players are the flags.

Rustbucket Rumble is an Action, Casual, Free To Play, Indie game released in 2015, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 382 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 383 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (146 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $19.99 at Steam (2016-07-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
828220152026Week of 2015-05-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.002015-05-052018-11-072015-05-05 — best price $0.002016-07-07 — best price $19.992016-07-08 — best price $0.002016-07-09 — best price $0.002016-07-10 — best price $0.002016-07-13 — best price $19.992016-07-15 — best price $0.002016-07-16 — best price $19.992016-07-17 — best price $0.002016-07-18 — best price $0.002016-07-19 — best price $0.002016-07-20 — best price $0.002016-07-21 — best price $19.992016-07-22 — best price $0.002016-07-23 — best price $0.002016-07-24 — best price $0.002016-07-25 — best price $0.002016-07-26 — best price $0.002016-07-27 — best price $0.002016-07-29 — best price $0.002016-08-08 — best price $0.002018-06-09 — best price $19.992018-11-07 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
28.5%
earned "Learning the Ropes"
4.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2015-05-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0313%21

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieActionCasualRobotsShooterCartoonyControllerPlatformer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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