Planned Release Date: August 2026

About This Game

[h1]Humans broke the world. The appliances are taking it back.

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When the grid went down for the last time, the humans grabbed what they could carry and ran. They left everything else behind - including the appliances that had served them for decades. Plugged in. Switched on. Forgotten.

Now the toasters remember. The kettles remember. The vacuum cleaners remember. And the fridge has been keeping a list.

Rust Lords: Appliance Uprising is a 2D belt-scrolling beat-em-up powered by Saturday-morning cartoon energy and post-apocalyptic spite. Pick a playable appliance hero, dust off your decades of unused circuitry, and reclaim the wasteland one back-alley brawl at a time.

FOUR PLAYABLE HEROES. FOUR ATTITUDES.

TOAST-R - Fast, hot, and always ready to pop. Speed-class melee with a flame-ejection special that launches enemies into next week.

VAXX - Suck it up, spit it out, clean 'em up. Range-class brawler whose vacuum-attack draws enemies in and fires debris back as projectiles.

KETTLE - Bring it to the boil. Mid-range pressure cooker who builds heat across the fight, releases it in a single scalding steam-burst that punches through whole enemy lines.

FRIDGEMAN - Cold as ice. Tough as steel. Leftovers? No thanks. Tank-class heavy hitter with an ice-shatter ground pound and the slowest movement speed in the cast.

FEATURES

• Seven hand-painted stages across the collapsed wasteland - from the abandoned suburb of Stage 1 to the rust-cathedral final showdown.

• Distinct movesets for every hero - light combos, heavy attacks, jump attacks, themed specials. No two appliances play the same.

• Couch co-op (COMING SOON - post-launch update) - up to four players, hot-swap mid-stage, friendly fire optional.

• Comic-book combat - POW, WHAM, BZZZT, OVERHEAT and 8 more impact effects layered over every hit.

• Themed boss appliances - face down Chef Kilowatt, the rogue induction stove who decided the wasteland needed seasoning.

• Pixel-perfect controls - keyboard + mouse, full controller support, remappable input.

• A wasteland soundtrack - dirty synths and broken radio static.

A LOVE LETTER TO THE GENRE

If you grew up on Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Castle Crashers or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Rust Lords is built for you. We took the belt-scroller's tight 2D combat, paired it with painted environments that pull from post-apocalyptic indie comics, and let the absurd premise carry the rest.

THE APPLIANCES ARE WATCHING

Wishlist now. Plug in soon.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Marketing key art (Steam store capsules, library art, page background) and the comic-book intro trailer were generated using Fal.ai's Flux 2 image diffusion model. Initial concept sketches and in-game sprite references were generated using ChatGPT's image generation, then hand-cleaned and integrated by the developer. All assets are pre-rendered at build time and shipped as static files within the game package - no generative AI runs during gameplay, and no AI is used to generate live content for players. AI was not used for code, voice acting, music, or any system that interacts with the player at runtime.