{"title":"Facepunch Studios","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacepunch Studios is the British developer and publisher behind two of the most enduring sandboxes on PC - Garry's Mod and Rust. Garry Newman founded the studio in June 2004, and it was formally incorporated on March 17, 2009. The name comes from the team's first planned game, Facewound. The team wanted a studio name rather than a personal one so the outfit would look more professional, so they brainstormed deliberately \"stupidly macho\" names and kept two. Facewound went to the game. Facepunch was judged too funny sounding to let die, so it became the company name. Facewound was later postponed and cancelled, but a side project Newman started that same year went on to define the studio. Garry's Mod began as a sandbox for tinkering inside Valve's Source engine. It gave players the assets of Source games such as Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, plus the tools to pose and combine them into anything from screenshot comics and machinima to full player-made game modes. It launched close to Steam's own beginnings and has regularly ranked among the platform's most played games, with more than 20 million copies sold by September 2021. Its long life owes as much to its community of builders and mode makers as to the studio itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRust grew out of the studio's frustration with DayZ. It pairs that game's cruel player-versus-player survival with Minecraft-style crafting and base building. It entered Steam Early Access in December 2013 and sold over 150,000 copies in its first two weeks, against the 34,000 Garry's Mod managed in the same span. During Early Access the game moved to the Unity 5 engine and swapped its zombies for dangerous wildlife. It passed five million sales by March 2017 and reached full release on February 8, 2018. Facepunch has kept updating it ever since on a monthly Force Wipe cycle, which lands on the first Thursday of each month. Paid packs have followed too, including the Instruments Pack, whose playable instruments work with real MIDI devices. A partnership with Double Eleven that began in 2016 brought Rust Console Edition to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in May 2021, and native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions followed in June 2025. The studio has also shipped smaller experiments. Clatter, a one-on-one turn-based strategy game fought with battle robots, arrived in December 2018. Chippy, a twin-stick bullet-hell shooter with destructible bosses, came out of the Facepunch Prototypes program in 2019. Meanwhile s\u0026amp;box, the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, moved from Unreal Engine 4 to Valve's Source 2 engine in 2020 and uses C# for user-created content and game modes. Still headquartered in Birmingham, with more than 50 staff as of March 2023, Facepunch makes games that hand players the tools and leave the stories to them. Rust, playable today on Windows and macOS, is the sharpest example of that approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rust-pc-download","title":"Rust","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eRust drops you onto a hostile island with nothing but a rock and a torch. Everything here wants you dead: the wildlife, the weather, hunger and thirst, the armed factions holding the island's monuments, and above all the other survivors. Developed and published by Facepunch Studios, the team behind Garry's Mod, Rust is a multiplayer survival game built around one question - how far will you go to last another night?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eExplore an Island That Fights Back\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery life starts the same way: naked on a beach, too cold or too hot, with a rock in one hand. From there it is a scramble for wood, stone, metal ore and cloth, a sleeping bag to respawn at, and a scrap of shelter before nightfall. The island is procedurally generated, so each world has its own layout of forests, snowfields, deserts and the new Jungle biome, along with rivers, caves, train tunnels and advanced underwater areas to discover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScattered across it are monuments: abandoned industrial sites, launch facilities and oil rigs guarded by scientists and other factions, stocked with loot worth the risk. Safe zones such as Outpost and Bandit Camp give you a place to trade, while horses, modular cars, bikes, boats, helicopters, hot air balloons and trains carry you across the map. The 2026 update pushes the frontier out even further with modular boats, the deep sea, tropical islands and floating cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBuild, Research and Defend\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhatever you gather is only yours for as long as you can protect it. Building is where Rust turns from a scavenger hunt into a long game of planning, engineering and paranoia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBase Building\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eLay foundations, walls, doors and roofs, then upgrade from twig and wood to stone, sheet metal and armored construction. A Tool Cupboard claims building privilege over your territory, and every layout decision, from airlocks to honeycombing, decides how expensive your base is to break into.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eResearch and Blueprints\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRecover scrap and components from the world, then work through the tech tree at your workbench to learn blueprints for tools, armor, weapons and deployables. Progress compounds quickly, taking you from bows and spears to firearms and explosives, one hard-won unlock at a time.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eElectricity, Farming and Automation\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePower lights, doors, alarms and defenses with electrical circuits, cultivate crops to keep your group fed, and automate the flow of resources through your base. These systems reward players who like to tinker, and they turn a simple shelter into a working compound.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAllies, Rivals and Raids\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are no rules in Rust but the ones players make for themselves. Team up with friends to build a shared settlement, form alliances with your neighbors, trade with other survivors, or turn raider and take what someone else spent hours earning. Rust is multiplayer only, with no single-player or offline mode, so every figure on the horizon is another real player whose intentions you have to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat uncertainty is what makes the game memorable. Proximity voice chat means a tense standoff can end in a trade, a truce, a betrayal or a firefight, and the island has room for quieter moments too, with musical instruments you can play for anyone within earshot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eServers, Wipes and a Game That Keeps Changing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial and community servers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Join Facepunch's official servers or choose from community servers running Vanilla or Modded rule sets, from group limits and boosted gather rates to custom maps built with the community map editor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHost your own:\u003c\/strong\u003e Run a private server for your group with server-side modding support, and shape it around the way you want to play, whether that means a slower-paced building server or a relentless, raid-focused ruleset.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWipes:\u003c\/strong\u003e Servers periodically reset the map and everything built on it, so no advantage lasts forever. On the first Thursday of each month the Force Wipe arrives with the monthly update and resets blueprints too, putting every player back on the same starting line.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMonthly updates:\u003c\/strong\u003e A guaranteed content patch every month brings balance changes, AI and graphics improvements, new monuments, weapons, vehicles and seasonal events. Recent additions include the Primitive game mode with siege weapons and vehicles, and a major graphics and environment overhaul.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever wanted a survival game where the stories come from real people rather than scripts, Rust is the one to try. Pick up a rock, find some friends or trust no one, and see how long you can hold on to what you build.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Facepunch Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34176609292,"sku":"PC_9667441356_DL_GL","price":33.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-rust-pc-mac-steam-game.jpg?v=1790192314"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-fr\/collections\/facepunch-studios.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}