Ash & Rust - Player count and game stats

Ash & Rust is tagged as Action, Indie, RPG. It is published by Ash and Rust Studios and released on 13 Mar, 2026. This page tracks live Steam player counts, historical peaks, and regional pricing. and the all-time peak was 18 concurrent players on 14 March 2026.

Developer: Ash and Rust Studios

Publisher: Ash and Rust Studios

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Release Date: 13 Mar, 2026

Official site On Steam Details

Est. sales: 4,245

Achievement completion: 28% easiest · 0% median

Top-selling rank: #767 YTD

About Ash & Rust

For seasoned ARPG lovers, a unique Indie entry is here! Construct a deep build as you fight your way through mysterious places. Enemies are strong and smart, but you'll have a massive arsenal of tools and abilities to master in order to vanquish them. Dive in!

More Ash & Rust Details

Ash & Rust is a top-down ARPG in a Dark Fantasy setting with a focus on:

Extreme build diversity and depth.

Abilities, Traits, and Gear interact with each other in deep ways, via an elegant UI grid system. Place Augment shapes into your Activated Inventory to enable them. The more shapes you can fit into the inventory the more power you can amass, so figuring out clever ways to piece things together can become a satisfying secondary skill.
Design your own Abilities from scratch! Pick from 4 base types, then choose your payload and Element type. As you level, add as many augments as you can fit to tailor your ability to your exact needs.
Choose from hundreds of augment and equipment options that combine to achieve interesting and deep playstyle types. For example, infusing the "Spell Weaving" trait onto your character makes it such that each time a different ability is cast, you stack up a buff. Casting the same ability twice in a row resets the stacks.

Visceral, Satisfying Combat

Fully animation-based attacks and collider-hit physics.
Abilities have animation timings, cooldowns, and in general require strategic intentions.
"Weighty" movement and casts creates that satisfying crunchy combat.
Master the timings of animations and attacks to dodge enemy abilities, block projectiles, and line up your own devastating counter-moves.

Replayability

Multiple End-game Modes! Each with Leaderboards/Achievements and unique mechanics.
Lots of loot: Weapons, Gear, Augments, Trinkets, and more, which all have significant impacts on your power, build, and playstyle.
Strategic Combat: Smart and strong enemies and bosses use A.I. Behavior Trees to respond to your actions: moving out of AoE, kiting when appropriate, dodging attacks, etc.
Gorgeous and mysterious places to explore. Full PBR materials (physically based rendering), real-time volumetric lighting, responsive foliage and terrain, and other advanced technical features.
Branching quests with dialogue choices. Your actions and responses shape the possible paths available to you.
Character customization. Design the physical appearance of your character.
And much more!

The World and Setting

You are...NOT the hero. You're just an Entity, plucked from the Aether to join a powerful organization. You are one of many OMENs, granted power and authority in exchange for servitude. You fulfill the wants and desires of overlords, creatures, and companies - the highest bidders. Your missions will take you to the farthest reaches, exploring wondrous places and meeting many characters. Some cower at your coming, but many eagerly embrace you. Some things are just as they seem, while others are smoke and mirrors. You can amass great influence as an OMEN, what mark on the world will you leave?

Ongoing Development

It is my plan to support and develop this game for years to come. This is a passion project and I absolutely love working on it. My aim is to continually add new end-game modes, new loot, new places, new enemies, and Quality of Life improvements. In its current state there are still some non-core aspects that are rough around the edges.

Design Philosophies

Stat multipliers and large Area of Effects are kept to a MINIMUM. In AnR, there are no multiplicative scaling stats, only additive stats, many with built-in Diminishing Returns, and large AoE takes heavy augment investment, thus reducing character power in other areas. This should help remove the main culprits of forcing all builds down certain paths to be end-game viable.
No non-progression based combat systems. In other words there will never be combat mechanics that are not based on utilizing your build to defeat it. For example: no environment traps, no quests where you use some vehicle/turret to defeat enemies, no long-cooldown transformation forms ("apocalyptic" mode, etc). In AnR, your unique build means everything, and I don't want to gate/shoehorn your progress behind some arbitrary mechanic.
New content should never obsolete old content. E.g. the level cap will never be raised, the power range of newer items will never outscale older items, etc. Instead, new content should generate new playstyles, new types of builds, and new combat strategies, without making previous ones less effective.

Controller Support: full
Genres: Action, Indie, RPG
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Steam Leaderboards, Family Sharing
Supported Languages: English* *languages with full audio support
Last Checked: 2026-08-01T16:24:42.584Z

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