{"id":343156,"date":"2025-07-24T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=391006"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:34:55","slug":"this-indie-game-is-taking-steam-by-storm-despite-asking-you-to-do-almost-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-indie-game-is-taking-steam-by-storm-despite-asking-you-to-do-almost-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"This indie game is taking Steam by storm despite asking you to do almost nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent developer Jordan Morris has achieved remarkable success with his game Rusty&#8217;s Retirement, released in April 2024, which has sold approximately 550,000 copies in a short period of time. <strong>This success has had a considerable impact on the trend of games with similar mechanics on the Steam platform<\/strong>, where titles like My Little Life and Ropuka&#8217;s Idle Island have begun to proliferate, inspired by Morris&#8217;s game style.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A game where management and waiting are important<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rusty&#8217;s Retirement has not only captured the attention of players but has also rekindled interest in a subgenre within idle games. <strong>Morris was inspired by classics like Hollow Knight and Stardew Valley to create a unique experience that combines exploration and management in a gameplay environment that unfolds at the bottom of the screen<\/strong>. This innovative approach, which features a compressed world similar to Microcivilization, has resonated with the gaming community, transforming the perception of what an idle game can be.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rusty&#039;s Retirement - Release Date Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_EjvV4c8on8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development of Rusty&#8217;s Retirement took approximately six months, a surprisingly short time compared to the two and a half years required for his previous game, Haiku. Initially, <strong>Morris had planned to release the title as a free game, but the overwhelming response on social media led him to reconsider his approach and opt for a paid model<\/strong>. &#8220;I saw that the response exceeded everything I had imagined; I decided to spend more time making it a good game,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this success, Morris has become a benchmark in the industry, which also suggests that players might see more imitators of Rusty&#8217;s Retirement in the future. <strong>Although his game was not the first in the idle genre, it is certainly paving the way for the future of this style of games<\/strong>. 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This success has had a considerable impact on the trend of games with similar mechanics on the Steam platform, where titles like My Little Life and Ropuka&#8217;s Idle Island have begun to proliferate, inspired by Morris&#8217;s game style. A game where management and waiting are important, Rusty&#8217;s Retirement has not only captured the attention of players but has also revived the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":343157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[6434,14217,14218,14219,14220,14221,6423,1056],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-343156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-hollow-knight","tag-idle-game","tag-jordan-morris","tag-my-little-life","tag-ropukas-idle-island","tag-rustys-retirement","tag-stardew-valley","tag-steam","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343167,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343156\/revisions\/343167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343156"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=343156"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=343156"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=343156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}