Overview
- Facepunch founder Garry Newman said "We're not making Rust 2" and added he has no idea what the unlisted Steam page refers to, according to Rock Paper Shotgun.
- Screenshots that circulated online showed an incomplete Steam page titled Rust 2 with the genre listed as free to play, posted by a brand-new Reddit account named Freeqncy.
- Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane replied to the Reddit thread with "You saw nothing" and later wrote "Now you're all questioning yourselves, is this real? Maybe?" in comments cited by PC Gamer.
- SteamDB, a third-party site that tracks Steam apps, flagged the Rust 2 entry as suspicious and warned it may be malicious or impersonating another product.
- Newman previously mentioned Rust 2 in 2023 when criticizing Unity, which helped make a sequel seem plausible even though the studio says it is not making one now.