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Rust Pulse Arcade
Browser-based arcade — 5 single-player games and 5 multiplayer games hosted at games.rustpulse.app.
Beta — free for any Steam-signed-in user. No subscription required.
Rust Pulse Arcade is a separate site at games.rustpulse.app. It's a browser arcade with five single-player and five multiplayer games, all themed around the Rust aesthetic. Built on the same Steam OpenID + relay infrastructure as the rest of Rust Pulse, so your Steam name + avatar carry over.
Single-player
| Game | One-liner |
|---|---|
| Stackpile | Block-stacker. Beat your high score. |
| Crate Run | Pac-Man on a Rust monument. Loot crates, dodge scientists. |
| Wasteland Run | Side-scroll platformer through 5 biomes. |
| Outpost Defense | Tower defense — 4 towers, 8 waves. |
| Wasteland Strike | Top-down chopper sortie: rescue, destroy, return. |
Multiplayer (via lobby code)
| Game | One-liner |
|---|---|
| Tavern Pool | 1v1 turn-based pool. |
| Rustageddon | 1v1 worms-style artillery. |
| Raid Chess | Classic chess, vs CPU or vs friend. |
| Skirmish | 2-4 player twitch shooter (top-down). |
| Rust Fighter | 1v1 fighter — specials, footsies, biome stages. |
Multiplayer flow
- Host picks a game; the relay returns a lobby code (e.g.
RP-X3Q9). - Join another player by typing their code on the home page.
- Lobby room shows the players present; host clicks Start.
Leaderboards
Each game has a per-user high-score endpoint. The Leaderboards page shows top-10 across all single-player games. Multiplayer is a separate Elo-style rating not yet exposed publicly.