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Rusty's Retirement

Mister Morris Games · 2024-04-26

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 26, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 26, 2024 (Mac)

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

363
playing now
97%
positive of 15k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
15
twitch viewers (latest)
73/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.19
steam price (US)

363 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Rusty's Retirement is a 2024 video game by independent developer Mister Morris Games. The game is an idle farming sim in which players assist a robot named Rusty to harvest crops and make upgrades on a farm. The game's user interface is presented as an overlay on the player's desktop, allowing them to undertake other tasks on their computer whilst the game progresses. Upon release, the game received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising the game's addictive nature, passive gameplay design and integration on the desktop. Following release, the game experienced commercial success, selling over half a million copies on Steam.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 363 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 801 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~100/week).
  • · Review velocity down 52% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,569 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 296k–666k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 14,799 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.19-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2026-04-27) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 11 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.4k3.4k20242026Week of 2024-04-01: 2,201 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3,399 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 563 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 569 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,469 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 982 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 385 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 623 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4512542026-08-07 00:00 — 285 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 393 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 372 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 271 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 331 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 318 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 269 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 319 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 372 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 298 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 352 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 349 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 265 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 353 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 364 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 314 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 360 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 356 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 272 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 344 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 362 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 273 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 288 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 421 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 350 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 376 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 431 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 338 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 363 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$3.492024-04-262026-08-222024-04-26 — best price $6.292024-06-27 — best price $5.592024-08-08 — best price $5.242024-09-21 — best price $5.242024-10-24 — best price $5.242024-11-27 — best price $5.242024-12-19 — best price $4.892025-02-01 — best price $4.682025-03-13 — best price $4.892025-03-31 — best price $5.242025-05-22 — best price $4.682025-06-27 — best price $4.682025-08-07 — best price $4.682025-09-20 — best price $4.682025-09-29 — best price $4.682025-11-17 — best price $4.682025-12-18 — best price $4.682026-02-11 — best price $4.682026-03-19 — best price $4.682026-04-27 — best price $3.492026-06-03 — best price $4.192026-06-25 — best price $3.492026-07-23 — best price $6.992026-08-22 — best price $4.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4352026-05-27 — 14 pageviews2026-05-30 — 17 pageviews2026-06-02 — 27 pageviews2026-06-05 — 43 pageviews2026-06-08 — 18 pageviews2026-06-11 — 16 pageviews2026-06-14 — 11 pageviews2026-06-17 — 10 pageviews2026-06-20 — 10 pageviews2026-06-23 — 13 pageviews2026-06-26 — 21 pageviews2026-06-29 — 11 pageviews2026-07-02 — 17 pageviews2026-07-05 — 10 pageviews2026-07-08 — 12 pageviews2026-07-11 — 13 pageviews2026-07-14 — 16 pageviews2026-07-17 — 5 pageviews2026-07-20 — 13 pageviews2026-07-23 — 16 pageviews2026-07-26 — 10 pageviews2026-07-29 — 10 pageviews2026-08-01 — 10 pageviews2026-08-04 — 28 pageviews2026-08-07 — 16 pageviews2026-08-10 — 7 pageviews2026-08-13 — 14 pageviews2026-08-16 — 6 pageviews2026-08-19 — 30 pageviews2026-08-22 — 7 pageviews2026-08-24 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2102026-08-26 19:15 — 7 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 10 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 21 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 16 viewers2026-08-30 16:35 — 15 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
92.6%
earned "Let's Spruce this Place Up!"
37.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text SizeCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)13,19811%71

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DCuteIdlerNatureEconomyFarmingBuildingRelaxingStrategyAutomation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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