'You Saw Nothing' — Facepunch Founder Garry Newman Denies Rust 2 in Development After Steam Listing Raises Eyebrows

Facepunch laminitis Garry Newman has denied the beingness of a concealed Rust sequel, aft a Steam listing for the crippled popped up online.

Suspicions of immoderate benignant of viral Rust 2 announcement were piqued past nighttime erstwhile a reddit thread appeared highlighting a — existent — Steam leafage for "Rust 2." Within minutes, the thread elicited a swift, perchance teasing effect from a Facepunch developer, stating: "You saw nothing."

But arsenic players debated whether this caller crippled mightiness beryllium a afloat sequel oregon the long-awaited larboard of Rust connected a caller motor (the existent mentation was built utilizing Unity), Newman yet stepped successful to acceptable the grounds straight.

"Nope. We're not making Rust 2," Newman said successful a abbreviated connection passed to PC Gamer, claiming that helium had "no thought astatine all" what the Rust 2 Steam leafage was each about. At the clip of writing, the leafage remains online.

Newman has mentioned the anticipation of a Rust 2 before, specified arsenic erstwhile helium spoke retired against Unity's infamous program to present costly Runtime Fees for the usage of games built connected its engine. "Let's not marque the aforesaid mistake again, Rust 2 decidedly won't beryllium a Unity game," Newman said backmost successful 2023.

Originally launched for PC and Mac successful aboriginal entree backmost successful 2013, the fashionable endurance crippled was aboriginal ported to consoles successful 2021, astatine a clip that the crippled was receiving a lockdown-era resurgence successful popularity. In the years since, the crippled has remained a Steam favorite, and much modern versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S arrived successful 2025.

Fans person agelong wondered if and erstwhile a sequel mightiness arrive, particularly arsenic Facepunch has spent years gathering its ain caller engine, s&box (pronounced Sandbox), that's yet acceptable for motorboat aboriginal this month. With that timeline successful mind, was the Steam leafage conscionable a hoax — oregon is Newman being coy astir aboriginal plans?

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