Waterpunk: Through the Rust
Waterpunk: Through the Rust is a hardcore top-down shooter with roguelike elements.
Get ready for fast-paced combat, procedural generation, permadeath, and meta-progression.
You play as a volunteer sent to the surface in search of vital resources. Explore rust-covered platforms, fight hostile machines, collect loot, and upgrade your skills. Maybe your run will be the one that changes everything — and gives humanity a second chance.
High-Intensity Combat
Enemies are deadly and unforgiving. You'll need precise aim and constant movement to survive.
Dynamic Day-Night Cycle
Some perks only work during the day, others — only at night. Plan your build wisely as time in the game moves forward relentlessly.
A Wide Arsenal of Weapons and Gadgets
Mix and match dozens of weapons and active items to handle any threat that comes your way.
Procedural Generation
Levels, enemies, and loot are generated from scratch each time — no two runs are the same.
Meta-Progression
Death is not the end. Upgrade your starting base to improve your chances in future runs.
Post-Apocalyptic Waterworld
Civilization fell in a war against soulless machines. Cities are submerged, and the last survivors hide in underwater bunkers, venturing to the surface only in search of resources.
Game in development
The game is in active development. This demo contains only a small portion of the planned content.
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Development log
- Browser version!26 days ago
- Waterpunk: Through the Rust - Alpha v. 0.128 days ago
Comments
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On the first level a red robot that shoots became invincible and killed me eventually... That's frustrating.
p.s. played web version.
There is two major point i found frustrating:
1) Sometimes enemies spawn right besides you. Reasonably sized no spawn zone around the player would be welcome.
2) There is very noticeable input delay with changing walking direction, as a result despite pressing the correct direction I've dodged into the mines multiple times.
Played only the browser version, so maybe it's web fault.
Otherwise the game is promising and with very pleasant art style. Good job!
Thanks for the feedback!
1) Enemies always spawn at some distance from the player, but maybe I should increase this distance.
2) Already fixed for the next update.
I'm really liking this. Can't wait to see what comes next.
played this for a few minutes and thought it was pretty decent i mean i did play it in russian (even though i can't read/speak the language fluently).. still ok though (7/10) :)
Thank you for feedback! English is the default language in the game :)
I really liked it, it's definitely worth developing. The game has a lot of potential!
Minor Update:
Slightly revised Eva’s dialogues.
Improved font for better readability.
Added a marker showing the way to the boat (you’ll need to find fuel first).
"It looks good."👌