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Rusted Moss

Emlise · PLAYISM · 2023-04-11

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ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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...

Rusted Moss is a 2023 Action and Indie game priced at $19.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 1709 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

12
playing now
89%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
3.59★
PlayStation Store rating (85 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 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

Healthy
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 227 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 27,942 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 35k–78k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,733 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 20 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23023020232026Week of 2023-04-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4872026-09-15 18:00 — 33 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 32 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 30 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 48 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 48 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 25 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 45 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 27 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 30 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 25 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 21 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 21 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 13 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 19 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 27 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 17 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 14 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 18 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 10 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 35 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 24 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 8 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
964Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 96 · peak 252Jun 2023 — avg 8 · peak 28Aug 2023 — avg 11 · peak 32Oct 2023 — avg 5 · peak 12Dec 2023 — avg 12 · peak 27Feb 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2024 — avg 7 · peak 17Jun 2024 — avg 23 · peak 75Aug 2024 — avg 18 · peak 46Oct 2024 — avg 12 · peak 31Dec 2024 — avg 18 · peak 36Feb 2025 — avg 9 · peak 37Apr 2025 — avg 13 · peak 33Jun 2025 — avg 13 · peak 41Aug 2025 — avg 11 · peak 24Oct 2025 — avg 9 · peak 26Dec 2025 — avg 10 · peak 23Feb 2026 — avg 7 · peak 18Apr 2026 — avg 6 · peak 15Jun 2026 — avg 11 · peak 28Aug 2026 — avg 10 · peak 24
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$7.992023-04-122026-10-142023-04-12 — 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 $19.992026-09-09 — best price $19.992026-09-23 — best price $12.992026-10-07 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — 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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-04-12 (Steam store data)

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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