Rusty's Retirement

Idle farming simulator that runs along your screen's edge

Mister Morris Games · Released Apr 26, 2024

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 15K
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 93% of 72 in 30 days
Playing now: 233; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 11 months ago; Oct 6, 2025

What is Rusty's Retirement?

This single-player idle farming and automation simulator runs in a strip along the bottom or side of the screen. You plant crops, let Rusty and helper robots water and harvest them, convert crops into biofuel, then sell it to expand the farm and upgrade automation.

For you if...

+you want a farming game beside work or browsing
+you enjoy unlocking robots to automate routine farm work
+you prefer slow, low-pressure single-player management

Not for you if...

−you expect hands-off automation immediately
−you want deep production strategy or extensive endgame goals
−you dislike games built around passive repetition

What players say

97% of 14,858 reviews are positive · 93% of 72 in the last 30 days

Players praise the desktop-companion format and the satisfaction of gradually automating the farm. Common complaints are that planting needs frequent attention before later unlocks, the display occupies too much screen space, and progression becomes repetitive or shallow.

Screenshots and trailer

Rusty's Retirement system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 @ 3.2 GHZ
Graphics: Graphics card with DX9
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 256 MB available space
DirectX: Version 9.0

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Achievements: 71
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Estonian.