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Rusty's Retirement (2024)

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This is a theory about a newly released indie game titled Rusty’s Retirement. Rusty’s Retirement is a Stardew Valley-like idle farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen. Beneath its cutesy art style hides some much darker lore.

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0:00 Intro
0:19 Cows, Pigs, Fossils
1:38 Bulblet & Butterfly
2:35 Disclaimer & patarei10a
3:08 Mystery of The Mass Extinction
5:00 Spare Parts, not coins
7:04 Kale & Phytoremediation
9:58 The Survival of Butterflies
11:31 The Disaster
14:38 Return to The Farm

Ranging from the abundance of livestock fossil littered around for you to revive using biofuel, to the mysterious coordinate at "Patarei 10a" that summons an NPC from Haiku, the Robot, all signs point to the game having a post-apocalyptic setting. What horrific scenario has this world had to endure, and why did all living things die out, except for plants and butterflies? Rusty has a sinister history to hide, and I am here to uncover it!

This video covers the origin of Bulblets, the purpose of the robots, origin of "spare parts" and the giant shiny metal pumpkin, my speculations on the game's backstory, and world-ending events in the past involving desertification, heavy metal pollution of soils, and an all-out global nuclear warfare followed by a nuclear winter that humanity did not survive.


Nuclear Explosion VFX from: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBodrWwJb5M
Nuclear Winter footage from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIRuqr_Ozg

Music used in this video:
Misuse by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4062-misuse
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Hiding Your Reality by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3875-hiding-your-reality
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Corruption by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3555-corruption
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Modern Jazz Samba by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4063-modern-jazz-samba
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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