Rusty's Retirement

Rusty’s Retirement by Mister Morris Games is an idle-farming multitask simulator that lives in the corner of your screen while you do other stuff.

Despite claiming to be over clickers, I snapped this up on release because I was intrigued by the docking mechanism and of course it has my type of farming and my type of cute pixel graphics. You can dock it at the bottom or side, and since docking at the bottom drove meslightly insane on my widescreen monitor I chose the right side.

I do enjoy treating this like a live wallpaper sometimes and letting it do its thing. The pixel art is top-notch, and I’ve had fun playing around with the new mechanics that are unlocked when buildings are purchased. That being said, it’s such a non-game I often forget it exists. When I started writing this post I realized… oh, yeah, I haven’t opened that thing since the day I bought it. Ironically, I think if there was a way to set it to full screen I’d get more invested, even though the selling point is that you can dock it and multitask. I think I’d also get a lot more invested if I was multitasking this while doing work more akin to a dayjob drudgery, since it’s on my personal computer that I use during my free time I’m generally way more engaged in whatever my primary task is.