This game is insanely cutesy and fun, decoration a little farm on the bottom of your screen as you slowly upgrade your farms with automation and robots is a cool idea. This game was tons of fun through college allowing me to have a semi distraction while writing papers but still mot drawing lots of attention away. HUGE BONUS is that the developer is an insanely cool dude ive reached out to talk about the games hes made that ive loved (rustys and Haiku) and was super cool, down to earth, and grateful. He also does community outreach for certain opinions about the development of certain choices in his games. Couldnt recommend his games enough defintely worth it!

I love getting addicted to casual/idle games so was excited to pick this up because of the outstanding reviews. Unfortunately I was pretty disappointed.

All too often lately a game that describes itself as "relaxing" is just a red-flag for it not having much meaningful content. In Rusty's Retirement, you buy a plot of land then plant seeds on it. Your robots will water and harvest the crops but can't plant them, so you need to check back every few minutes to plant more for them. After what seems like an eternity you have enough cash to buy another plot of land, which... you can plant more seeds on. This is literally the entire game.

I don't know what the other reviewers are smoking. The top review talks about "optimising carrot production yields" and "redesigning the farm so his bots don't get stuck on trees". None of this is present in the game. If you want more carrots you buy more land and plant more carrots. The only tree you can place is a Christmas tree, and your bots clip right through them - pathfinding is not a consideration at all in this game. Were these reviews bought?

The main goal of the game is to unlock more crop types, which you can do by harvesting a certain amount of other crops. I was excited when I unlocked the bot who sold decorations because that sounded like actual gameplay, but then I realised my goal is currently to harvest 300 cauliflower (and I have 20 similar goals after that). Why would I waste valuable crop space on decorations that do nothing? Plenty of other games have decorations give area buffs so the player can justify being creative with them BTW.

I'll admit the 'sitting at the bottom of the screen' gimmick appealed to me at the start too, but after an hour or two I realised it was just that - a gimmick. If I'm working on something, what's the difference between having it on my screen, on my second monitor, or just in the background until I want to tab over to it? If anything, having it on the screen is just way more distracting. I found myself glancing at it constantly to see if there was something to do, and the answer was usually yes - three squares need replanting.

Over-hyped, there are way better idlers out there i dont know why this is ranked so high