EDIT: "You've played for an additional 7 hours, would you like to revise your review?"
thats 7 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours of trying to get this game to load. I dont know how the optimisation has gotten WORSE since I last played but yeah, dont waste your money on this joke of a game. Actual scam, ignore everything I wrote.

OK I just want to make it clear I REALLY WANT to like this game. The only reason I'm not recommending it because it is stupid that this game has load times this bad [trust me, put this on your SSD if you don't want to wait the length of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Byzantine-Bulgarian wars just to get into the game.] and that it has a minimum requirement of 10gb of ram. Honestly stupid.

However, if you can put the poor optimisation aside, this game is a blast especially with friends, its very unforgiving and sometimes a little cruel but that's what I find so appealing about it, it has been said that adding multiplayer into a survival game is a common mistake, but Rust screams that sort of take is one of ignorance through a god awful microphone. The multiplayer aspect is by far one of the greatest aspects of the game. In one of the best implementations of proximity voice chat in recent memory, you can play Rust for a few hours and come back with a years worth of stories. In that respect, Rust is something to marvel.

EDIT: "You've played for an additional 7 hours, would you like to revise your review?" thats 7 fucking hours of trying to get this game to load. I dont know how the optimisation has gotten WORSE since I last played but yeah, dont waste your money on this joke of a game. Actual scam, ignore everything I wrote. OK I just want to make it clear I REALLY WANT to like this game. The only reason I'm not recommending it because it is stupid that this game has load times this bad [trust me, put this on your SSD if you don't want to wait the length of the fucking Byzantine-Bulgarian wars just to get into the game.] and that it has a minimum requirement of 10gb of ram. Honestly stupid. However, if you can put the poor optimisation aside, this game is a blast especially with friends, its very unforgiving and sometimes a little cruel but that's what I find so appealing about it, it has been said that adding multiplayer into a survival game is a common mistake, but Rust screams that sort of take is one of ignorance through a god awful microphone. The multiplayer aspect is by far one of the greatest aspects of the game. In one of the best implementations of proximity voice chat in recent memory, you can play Rust for a few hours and come back with a years worth of stories. In that respect, Rust is something to marvel.