Rusty's Retirement is a cute "at the bottom of your monitor" idle game where you help Rusty build and maintain a farm. The game itself is fairly simple in its gameplay loop. You buy robots to maintain your farm so you can grow crops to buy more robots and more farm, repeat.
Overall, it's very cute, and it has helped spawn a new genre of "at the bottom of your screen" games. I love the concept and hope to see other games expand on it, but for now there is not too much to the game, I felt like I had seen everything after 2 hours, and not much more happened as I kept playing other than the crop being different and robots moving faster.
Despite the gimmick, I often found myself wishing I could fullscreen the game, or at least freely move where it sits. The game is also always "in focus" meaning that your other processes might not run as smoothly as you would like, if you want to for example play rusty AND another game at the same time.
This caused me to move Rusty to my second monitor where it could run in the background, while I could play a game on my main monitor, and this kind of defeats the point of a game that sits at the bottom of my screen, ad I could have any game on my second monitor.
Judging it purely as an idle game it is fine, though I have played other idles I had more fun with. This game gets a lot of charm points for its cute art and unique bottom of the monitor feature, but ultimately I wish it offered more.
Overall, it's very cute, and it has helped spawn a new genre of "at the bottom of your screen" games. I love the concept and hope to see other games expand on it, but for now there is not too much to the game, I felt like I had seen everything after 2 hours, and not much more happened as I kept playing other than the crop being different and robots moving faster.
Despite the gimmick, I often found myself wishing I could fullscreen the game, or at least freely move where it sits. The game is also always "in focus" meaning that your other processes might not run as smoothly as you would like, if you want to for example play rusty AND another game at the same time.
This caused me to move Rusty to my second monitor where it could run in the background, while I could play a game on my main monitor, and this kind of defeats the point of a game that sits at the bottom of my screen, ad I could have any game on my second monitor.
Judging it purely as an idle game it is fine, though I have played other idles I had more fun with. This game gets a lot of charm points for its cute art and unique bottom of the monitor feature, but ultimately I wish it offered more.