

You'll have to purchase the pack to be able to craft the instruments, but once made they can be shared between all players or taken off of corpses as regular inventory items. Static instruments are also available on a new music stage in the Compound so everyone can give them a try. The Rust Instrument Pack goes for $10/£7/€8 on Steam (although it's 10 percent off until December 12), and in a nice touch you don't need to own the DLC in order to enjoy the tunes. I'm sure no one will annoy anyone with these.

And not just tubas! The game's first paid DLC, announced last month, also includes a piano, a drum kit, guitars, a trumpet, a pan flute, and other cobbled-together instruments-all of them fully playable-of the sort you'd expect to find on a Gilligan's Island with guns. The headline says it all: Rust, the game about waking up naked and alone on a strange island, mere hours away from death due to exposure and starvation, now has tubas. Warning: Contains sales figures, console game announcements, other business stuff. You can read Facepunch’s entire yearly review over on their website. Anyways, here’s the big Rust thing from this year: Horses. Compared to other games from Facepunch that’s not great, but it’s pretty good for the post-indie apocalypse Steam environment. The post also contains details on Facepunch’s release from earlier this year, Chippy-that sold about 10 thousand copies. Doing the math, that means both games have sold over a million copies for each year of release, while Rust has sold 1.5 million for each year. This might come as a surprise to some, because GMod is 15 years old this year, while Rust released in 2013. GMod has still outsold rust in terms of copies, however, with 16 million total sales. With Rust having grossed $142 million at 9 million copies sold, it has surpassed GMod at a humble $108 million.

Facepunch studios programmer Garry Newman has posted a yearly review that contains a bit of interesting fact: Survival game Rust has now made more money than his eponymous Garry’s Mod, or Gmod.
