2026-09-21
What is Rustbite?
Rustbite is a free turn-based hex strategy game. It runs in the browser: no install, no account, no store. You own coloured hexes. Hexes make gold. Gold makes units. Units take more hexes.
The setting is the Rust Age. Humans rusted the sky. The last soil cracked into hex plates. You thrive by taking gold, mana, Flats, Hills, and crossings. A connected cluster of plates is a pocket — one purse, one army.
Three factions want three endings for those plates. The Scrap Horde is mutated humans of the poison sky; they strip living ground so rust can win. The Iron Covenant is machines that outlived their makers; they harvest rust-light and clear life off the hex. The Deeproot Guild hid with one seed and left the machines; they grow the plates back.
The lineage is territory-control games like Antiyoy, with readable asymmetry: one special unit and three spells per side, not extra subsystems. Play in the browser when you want a match.