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Rusted Moss

Emlise · PLAYISM · 2023-04-11

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ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 12, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 20, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 20, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Jun 20, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...

11
playing now
89%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Journey across desolate landscapes drenched in melancholy; witness the remnants of humanity and their rusting iron inventions… Humanity is on the brink of collapse and will soon be invaded by faeries. In a desperate bid to survive, humans have empowered their own witches with stolen fae magic. But all is not lost, as the humans were deceived - for one of their own is not what she seems. The fae have stolen a human baby, and replaced it with something else… Raised by unsuspecting human parents, Fern is a changeling whose true loyalties have emerged. Alongside a mysterious shadow named Puck, s(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–76k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,694 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-01-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1722026-08-11 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 14 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 11 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 11 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$7.992023-04-122026-08-262023-04-12 — best price $17.992023-06-29 — best price $15.992023-08-01 — best price $15.992023-09-10 — best price $15.992023-11-21 — best price $13.992023-12-02 — best price $13.992024-03-01 — best price $11.992024-03-14 — best price $11.992024-05-25 — best price $11.992024-06-27 — best price $11.992024-08-07 — best price $11.992024-09-18 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $9.992024-12-06 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-02-28 — best price $9.992025-04-13 — best price $9.992025-05-21 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $9.992025-07-31 — best price $9.992025-09-15 — best price $9.992025-12-04 — best price $9.992026-01-17 — best price $7.992026-03-05 — best price $9.992026-05-10 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-07-17 — best price $7.992026-08-26 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
86.7%
earned "Bonnie is Here"
21.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0633%46
PS5 (PlayStation)10211%46
Xbox Series (Xbox)445%46
Switch (Nintendo)130%0

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

Player tags

2DActionAdventureDifficultPlatformerStory RichMetroidvania2D PlatformerPixel GraphicsAction-Adventure

Census log

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

Recent updates

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