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Cosmic Dust & Rust

Cosmic Dust & Rust is a tower defence game set in space. Upgrade your ship, build turrets and defence systems, undergo side missions and take control of your ship manually and use its cannons and super weapons to destroy your enemies.

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Developer
16bit Nights
Publisher
Back To Basics Gaming
Release
May 17, 2016
10 years and 79 days ago
Steam Reviews
Mixed567 reviews64.2%

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About the Game

Cosmic Dust & Rust is a tower defence game set in space with 2 stages of game play: The first stage is 'Ship management', where the player must upgrade the internal parts of his or her ship. You can build and upgrade turrets and defence systems. You can also undergo side missions.
The second stage is the 'Action sequence', where the player takes manual control of the ship and it's main cannon and super weapon defence systems.


Features:
- Upgrade your ships defence systems.
- Complete secondary missions for bonus aluminium and gold.
- Do battle with a variety of enemy types with destructible parts.
- Build and fire Super weapons. Take the fight to the enemy!
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