Instead, it's a new feature recently added to the game, which has 500,000 players each week, by developer Garry Newman: Your character's gender and race are now randomized. It's a tense game, one in which your friends can suddenly turn against you and basically ruin everything you worked for just for their own personal gain.īut it's not the betrayal and tension that has gamers upset with Rust. Rust is a popular first-person survival video game where you start out completely naked, left to a barren environment to build yourself tools, weapons, and a home as other players try to do the same - and potentially try to kill you and steal your stuff.