Is it okay for my son to play Rust?

[new floppasburg]

My son just turned 13, and he wants to play the game Rust really bad, and we don't know if we should let him buy/play it. He doesn't get scared and/or negatively influenced easily, but we aren't sure if he can play the game yet. Any opinions on this one?

[KazzyBee]

The game really isnt bad, it could teach him that he is lucky as in the game you have to do everything for youself

[TastyToast]

thats up to you not strangers on the interent, watch youtube videos of the gameplay.

[Spawn of Totoro]

It can contain nudity (male genitalia). Can't remember if it is censored by default or not or how easily it can be turned on/off.

It is also an Early Access game. Even the developer is unsure what they are making or where they are going with it. Right now they are working on the engine.

There is a lot of PvP going on in servers too, as well as trolling, especially against new players. It is an on-line only game at the moment, so you can't avoid those things unless you rent your own server.

In all honesty, I wouldn't get it for a 13yo. Maybe if it was finished and all the features are there, but in it's current state, no.

[Hextravert]

Originally posted by Lottom:

My son just turned 13, and he wants to play the game Rust really bad, and we don't know if we should let him buy/play it. He doesn't get scared and/or negatively influenced easily, but we aren't sure if he can play the game yet. Any opinions on this one?

Are you worried about the game's difficulty, by any chance

A 13-year-old who is eager to play will figure it out in no time at all.

[Noctuary]

It honestly has the most violent and foolish community I've ever seen in a game. Nudity is off by default but he's going to hear some very, very "exotic" language if you decide to enable voice chat.

[Enemy Unknown]

Fact is, you as parents can only know, does your son is instabil, weak, etc, or just mature enough in his mind to handle things. Age restrictions are a suggestion, not a must for every kid this age.

As mentioned, at youtube you can get an insight, also twitch is a way to check in (new) games.

Fine is, that you ask, try to get help in forehand. :O)
At least, the nudity or sexual language, i guess every kid learns it already at school. But this doesnt mean he should have access to this all the time. A bombardement for hours of this sexual language can influence maybe his vocabulary. Or maybe not, this you can answer, coz you know your son better as we ever could.

In my opinion, a normal kid, can play some titles that is for some years up, but at a restricted time. And dont stand behind him all the time... thats pain in the butt.

Better would be, if you both play it together btw., or don't you think so?
You have an eye what he is playing, gets a perfect insight and you both can have fun together.


Joey :O)
PS: Terraria is realy great to play together, and for his age absolutly ok.

[Noctuary]

I'm pretty sure a 13 year old can pretty much take anything. We try to shelter our kids way too much nowadays. The only advice I can give is make sure he plays Rust with friends becasue it's extremely boring by yourself.

[new floppasburg]

Thanks guys, we are gonna let him buy it.

[Alex_Wonga]

I would be worried about the in-game voice chat. A lot of rage...

[ozmackem]

I play with my son who is 11. We play online together from different rooms and so far are finding it a great experience. If you can play with him, give it a go.
Not too sure how I'd feel about him playing it by himself with the high proportion dodgy characters the game seems to have attracted.
We've play on sparsely populated servers recently and find the population on these quite helpful.

[cumpants]

it is a cool game so good choice