Most Impressive Game I've Seen Written in Rust

336 points coolman3475

I've always been interested in open source software, it turns out there a fair number of games in this space as well. Inspired by Cube World and Breath of The Wild, Veloren is a fun game I've been playing that is written entirely in Rust. It is an open source project licensed with GPL with an active discord (r/veloren is shutdown protesting reddit).

Though not available on Valve's game repository, st#am(word auto-removes post for some reason), it can be downloaded from their website across platforms.

https://veloren.net/

It runs very smoothly and they're always adding new features. Overall I'm impressed they were able to build their own engine from scratch and I believe this marks a new point game development as Veloren is a testament to what Rust is capable of.

Do you think the gaming industry will drop C++ for Rust one day, as Microsoft did?

What other games do you know of that are created with Rust?

EDIT: Though Microsoft did not "drop" C/C++, they have announced they will officially support it as a language with their Azure CTO expresses his opinion on C/C++ that the industry should declare them deprecated.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/rust_microsoft_c/