When comparing Miasmata vs Rust, the Slant community recommends Miasmata for most people. In the question“What are the best survival games on PC?” Miasmata is ranked 18th while Rust is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose Miasmata is:
Clues are hidden all around the island of Eden. No one is here to lay out exposition so you must find them all to unravel the mystery!
Specs
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Pros
Pro Mysterious story
Clues are hidden all around the island of Eden. No one is here to lay out exposition so you must find them all to unravel the mystery!
Pro Scavenging
Use your scientific skills and clues from your journal to find the three ingredients to cure you from your plague.
Pro No HUD
Miasmata gives you a clear view into the world to see the beautiful island around you. You interact with paper maps, compasses, and journals along your journey to discover the cure to your illness.
Pro No Combat
You are weak from your sickness and cannot combat against the fierce predator hunting for you throughout the island. The only thing you can do is try to get away when the predator is near.
Pro Non-PvP servers are available
If worrying that another player might kill you and loot your corpse is not your thing, or if you don't want to deal with someone constantly harassing your base, there are servers available that take away the risk of other player's malicious behavior.
Pro Building system is simple, efficient and intuitive
Hold a key while holding a hammer, and with your cursor, select the piece you want to build.
Upgrading a piece of building is done in the same fashion.
Pro Game's multiplayer nature creates psychological tension
While there's obviously potential for working together with other players towards achieving certain goals, the more likely scenario is someone trying to kill you to get your stuff. Or even worse, deceiving you in working together to achieve a particularly difficult goal only to stab you in the back when you're not needed anymore. It's easier to take stuff from someone else than gather it yourself. And since your base is a the perfect bullseye to other players, there is constant threat of griefing.
Pro Lots of variety in ways to die
Fauna, including bears and wolves, is trying to kill you, radiation, that's ever-present, is trying to kill you, zombies, in a multitude of colors, are trying to kill you, other players on the server, equipped with guns, are most definitely trying to kill you, and you, yourself, if you don't find food, will die.
Pro Base building allows for less punishing gameplay
Because you can build your base that you respawn back to when killed, losing only what you had on you at the time of death, it allows getting back to where you left off quickly.
Cons
Con Mixed quality on visuals
This game’s scope is very impressive especially since it was created by two brothers but it does show in the graphical quality of the game at times with muddy textures and odd animations at times.
Con Hard to play solo
Rust is all about clans fighting for territory and loots. Solo players (or ones with a couple friends) can easily be killed by bigger clans.
Con Not yet finished (buggy)
Since it's a Steam Early Access game it still has lots of glitches, placeholder text and unreliable infrastructure. But for all its unfinished nature, it's surprisingly playable.