Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, Switch

On Rusty Trails is a modern, illustrative platformer, set in a world constantly reacting to your change in identity. You are Elvis. Home owner, triangular metal person and lover of dryness. A sudden thunderstorm leaves your house dissolved into a pile of rubble. Only lightning-fast reactions will keep you from a looming rusty funeral. Don your Shifty Suit to incognito yourself and walk among suspicious hairy folk. Perilous puzzles and prejudiced platforms will bar your way in this deceptively complex gaming experience.

Slip into the Shifty Suit!

Blast through this fast-paced platformer and instantly shift from rusty red to hairy blue to influence how the whole environment reacts to you.

Still stepping on the floor?

Magnetic boots deliver a unique platform mechanic in multiple dimensions. Walk on walls and the ceiling and prepare for an adrenaline rush from treacherous puzzles.

A gloomy tale in finest comic art!

Feast your eyes on the trademark Black Pants art style in this beautiful and bleak platformer and its miniature world with even smaller inhabitants. Eyes! FEAST!

Spite and prejudice!

Stimulate your brains with a story about the loss of a low-rent flat, complicated misunderstandings and a looming war. And there is even forbidden romance.

It creaks, it cracks, it crunches!

A dark and melodic soundtrack with an eclectic selection of music. Haunting robotic sounds for your rainy days and the industrial revolution.

Funded by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg GmbH / ILB

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Press & Reviews

A beautiful yet bleak platformer that deals with serious topics while staying lighthearted, On Rusty Trails is easy to recommend for fans of platformers. If Pixar made a platformer, this would be it.
— Jed Whitaker, Game Revolution

This deceptively complex title builds a wonderfully designed world of puzzles and lightning-fast reactions to create a fun and challenging experience.
— Chaz Miller, Twinfinite

On Rusty Trails NEEDS to be put on your list of stuff to play in 2016
— Greg Wilcox, Destroy All Fanboys

The melancholic environment with its constant rain and thunderstorms is the canvas for a treacherously challenging and surprisingly deep platformer.
— Gijs Scheltens, Gamer.nl

This platformer looks like an enchanting comic.
— Lisa Fleischer, GIGA

Credits

Tobias Bilgeri — Game Design & Assets Sebastian Stamm — Illustration & Assets Baoying Bilgeri — Character Animation Johannes Spohr — Code Rico Possienka — Game Code Steffen Martin — Sound Design Florian Masuth — PR & Marketing Christian Niemand — PR & Marketing

System Requirements

Windows

OS: Windows XP or newer, 32 or 64 bit
Processor: CPU with SSE2 support required (Core 2 Duo, Athlon X2 or newer).
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.1 or higher required (Intel HD series, NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series, AMD Radeon HD series or newer)
Storage: 2 GB available space

Mac

OS: OS X 10.7 "Lion" or newer
Processor: CPU with SSSE3 support required (Core 2 Duo or newer).
Graphics: OpenGL 3.1 or higher required (Intel HD series, NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series, AMD Radeon HD series or newer)

Linux

OS: Linux 32 or 64bit kernel with GLIBC 2.14 or newer
Processor: CPU with SSE2 support required (Core 2 Duo, Athlon X2 or newer).
Graphics: OpenGL 3.1 or higher required (NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series, AMD Radeon HD series or newer). Intel HD cards not supported on Linux.