Rust Nomads
Fast raiders on scrap-built machines. Hit first, hit hard, never stop moving.
The old world ended. The wasteland did not. It has towns to take, mines to work, roads to hold, and four factions who each think it belongs to them.
Rustlords is turn-based strategy in the classic mould. Explore the map a day at a time. Build up your towns. Hire heroes, raise an army, and settle things on a hex battlefield. It is drawn like a European comic album about the end of the world: gritty, but an adventure.
Four factions
Vault Technocrats
Survivors of the sealed vaults. Disciplined lines, drones and laser fire.
Mutant Clans
Twisted by the fallout and stronger for it. Cheap, tough, and they just keep healing.
Salt Corsairs
Land pirates who sail the salt flats. Gliders overhead, harpoons in hand, and every fight pays.
Each has its own town to build, its own walls, two kinds of hero, and five troops with an upgrade apiece, from Scavvers to Juggernauts. All 49 units are painted and animated.
Battles and sieges
Fights are fought on a hex field, stack against stack. Shooters want cover, chargers want room, and your hero's gadgets (a Molotov, a Smoke Screen, an Air Strike if you have lived that long) can turn a round.
A walled town is a siege: a gate to smash, razor wire, gun nests and a killing ground of mines. Before any fight the game tells you the odds, and a battle you would rather not fight by hand can be left to the computer.
Six campaigns
Over forty missions, each opening on an illustrated briefing. Your lead hero grows from mission to mission and your choices carry through. The rivals come for you: nobody wins by waiting behind the walls.
- The Warlord Years. Old Static, a radio DJ in a ruined tower, tells the story of the year the wasteland chose a warlord.
- Signal from Orbit. A dead satellite starts broadcasting, and not everyone wants it answered.
- The Green Tide. A sludge plague is killing the crater clans.
- The Last Lighthouse. A smuggler queen against the Admiralty, the storms and the Salt Leviathan.
- Road War. The clan's last fuel and water, down the Dead Highway.
- Four Crowns. A city under the dunes, four leaders who want it, and you play each of them.
Your wasteland
Skirmish on generated maps in four sizes for two to six sides, with rivers, lakes, neutral settlements and great beasts that walk tracks of their own. Or five hand-drawn maps for a fair duel. Three difficulties.
A map editor. Paint the ground, place the towns, the mines and the guards. It mirrors your work for the other seats and checks the map for fairness as you go. Then play it.
Online, at your own pace. Start a game, share its code, and play. No accounts. Take your turn when you have a minute: the game waits three days, and when everybody is at the table, a battle between two players is fought live.
Made for your phone
A day on the map takes a few minutes: a bus ride, a queue, a kettle. The whole game plays with a thumb, holding the phone upright, and it keeps playing with no signal. On a computer it plays with a mouse, the keyboard or a controller.
The free demo
The tutorial and the first two missions of The Warlord Years, and skirmish on Small maps with all four factions, against the computer or online against friends. Your progress carries into the full game.
▶ Play the free demo
Coming to Steam, iPhone and Android.