I love Rust, probably one of my favorite games ever. However, playing on a normal server is pretty much a full time job. It seems that people either move onto something else or become entirely consumed by the game. Any games that are like Rust but aren’t like that?
CW: Addiction discussion, drugs
At one point when I had the time, I was playing on a server and using someone (we were friends, I wasn’t using him like that) else to infiltrate an enemy clan. The owner of the enemy clan’s discord was talking about giving up his child for adoption for more Rust time on Discord calls so many times. I’ve played a ton of insanely addictive games, but I can’t think of any other game that I’ve seen people casually ruin their lives over. I’ve literally quit benzos (xanax, I took kpin but close enough) and fent at the same time, I truly have seen it all as far as people casually ruining their lives. Somehow I’ve seen worse from Rust addicts than I’ve seen from fentanyl and benzo addicts. Those people can literally die if their withdrawal is big enough (cold turkeying anything over 3-4mg of Xanax a day is a death wish), so I can sympathize with people in that situation. However, I’ve still seen people addicted to Rust make decisions that I haven’t even seen people make with the threat of full addiction/possibly dying from withdrawal make
The amount of addiction in that game is disturbing beyond anything else. I’ve literally seen people handle fent withdrawal better than putting down Rust, it genuinely makes me sick. If it wasn’t that bad, I’d just find better servers. But there’s something in that game that can ruin people beyond hard drugs.