Rust Bucket

Rust Bucket is a roguelike game released for Android on Google Play on December 16th, 2015 and will will be released for Android on the Amazon App Store, for iOS on the Apple App Store, and browser on December 17th, 2015. The game is the sequel to Turnament.

The player plays as a helmet character and advances through dungeons. The game has both a pre-made level-based mode and an endless mode with randomly generated dungeons.

Level-based mode
For the level based mode, the player has to navigate Rust Bucket to the staircase found at the end of the level.

Endless mode
In endless mode, the player must survive from various rooms. Player can collect coins by saving villagers, or slaying enemies. Player has two doors to go from: Regular doors doesn't give points, but includes more enemies. Golden doors gives points

Previews

 * September 16th, 2015 - Nitrome released a Twitter post revealing Rust Bucket and a GIF of gameplay.
 * September 17th, 2015 - The game is announced on the Nitrome blog, with more information about it given.
 * September 21st, 2015 - Aaron Steed posted on Twitter an image of one enemy type in the game
 * October 9th, 2015 - Nitrome posted a preview that showed some enemies and a villager

Development
Rust Bucket was announced on Twitter on September 16th, 2015 and revealed on the Nitrome blog the following day. Another preview was posted on October 9th, and another on November 13th, 2015. On this same day, Nitrome also said that they plan to release the game on mobile devices before December 25th, 2015.

Nitrome did not name the game after its predecessor, Turnament, because it was deemed too difficult to search for as it was hard to spell.

Trivia

 * The game's release date for iOS version is exactly one year after the release of Platform Panic.