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Rustbound

Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.

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July 16, 2026
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About the Game

Rebuild the World, One Workshop at a Time

The old world is gone.

Cities lie beneath vines, machines rust beneath wildflowers, and nature has reclaimed what humanity left behind.

But civilization isn't over.

Starting with a single abandoned outpost, you'll recruit survivors, build specialized workshops, craft valuable equipment, and transform forgotten scrap into a thriving settlement.

Every workshop, every trade, and every expedition brings your community one step closer to rebuilding something worth protecting.

Build a Thriving Settlement

Transform an abandoned outpost into a bustling center of craftsmanship and trade.

Construct specialized workshops, expand production, unlock new technologies, and recruit skilled survivors to grow your settlement.

Every improvement opens new opportunities, new professions, and new ways to rebuild the world.

Craft Hundreds of Items

Craft hundreds of weapons, tools, clothing, gadgets, accessories, and trade goods using reclaimed technology, natural resources, and recovered materials.

Master blueprints, improve your workshops, and transform forgotten scrap into equipment that keeps your settlement growing.

Manage Your Economy

A thriving settlement needs more than skilled crafters—it needs customers.

Set prices, manage inventory, fulfill requests, and discover how supply and demand shape your growing marketplace.

Experiment with pricing, balance production costs, and build a prosperous trading network that supports your community.

Recruit Skilled Survivors

The wasteland is filled with talented people searching for a place to belong.

Recruit specialists such as Scrappers, Outriders, Patchers, Mechanists, Binders, Provisionists, and Imprinters, each unlocking new workshops, recipes, equipment, and production opportunities.

Equip them with better gear, develop their skills, and help them become the foundation of a new civilization.

Risk the Ruins

Beyond your walls lie forgotten cities, abandoned facilities, and dangerous remnants of the old world.

Send your Marauder into hostile ruins to recover valuable resources, lost technology, and rare equipment.

Push deeper for greater rewards—or return home with everything you've recovered.

The farther you venture, the greater the risks... and the greater the opportunities.

A World Reclaimed

Explore a colorful post-post-apocalyptic world where nature and humanity grow together.

Overgrown factories become workshops. Broken machinery becomes opportunity. Forgotten ruins become the foundation of thriving communities.

This isn't a story about surviving the end of the world.

It's a story about what comes after.

Features

  • Build and expand a thriving workshop-driven settlement

  • Craft hundreds of unique items across specialized professions

  • Recruit and equip survivors with distinct roles and abilities

  • Recover valuable resources during dangerous Marauder expeditions

  • Manage a reactive marketplace by balancing pricing, supply, and demand

  • Upgrade workshops, master blueprints, and grow your settlement through long-term progression

  • Experience a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic world focused on rebuilding instead of survival

  • Relaxing management gameplay with satisfying progression and meaningful decisions

    Every piece of scrap has value. Every survivor has a purpose. Every workshop brings the world one step closer to recovery.