# Rust Bucket

> Puzzle

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1040158406](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1040158406)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1040158406`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nitrome
- **Category:** Puzzle
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (177 ratings)
- **Version:** 73
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-22
- **First published:** 2015-12-16
- **Size:** 105 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rust-bucket/id1040158406)
- **Website:** [http://www.nitrome.com/mobile](http://www.nitrome.com/mobile)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.nitrome.com/privacy](http://www.nitrome.com/privacy)

## Description

Rust Bucket is a fast, mobile-minded turn-based dungeon crawler. Swipe to move, swipe into enemies to attack, and puzzle your way past deadly traps while facing a growing roster of monsters.

Explore endless dungeons, chase high scores on Game Center, and master strategic combat. The game is ad-supported but free to play, with a one-time IAP to remove popup ads (cross-promo ads for other Nitrome games remain).

## Rankings

- #115,424 — Overall

## Review summary

Rust Bucket is praised for its art, puzzle design, and addictive turn-based gameplay, with solid replay value and interest in future updates or a sequel. However, pervasive issues threaten the experience: progress-saving and level-select bugs erasing advancement, intrusive and sometimes explicit ads with ineffective removal, sharp difficulty spikes and level-specific bugs, and general stability problems. If these are addressed, the game has strong staying power for puzzle/strategy fans.

### Pros

- Stunning art style with clever, handcrafted puzzle level design and engaging turn-based mechanics.
- Addictive and engaging puzzle gameplay with intuitive swipe-based controls.
- Solid replay value across puzzle and endless modes with many levels.
- Strong long-term appeal and potential for future updates or a sequel.

### Cons

- Major progress-saving/level-select bugs that wipe progress and prevent continuing.
- Excessive ads (including sexually themed ads) and a non-working ad-removal option.
- Difficulty spikes and level-specific bugs that make certain stages feel impossible or buggy.
- Stability issues and crashes, plus launch problems and reset bugs across various modes.

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