iron(III) oxide · click-to-rust

click
iron.
let it rot.

an idle game about oxidation. you click an iron yard, it rusts in five tiers, you buy patina bots that rust it for you while you sleep. it's a game about decay, calmly accepted.

fe2o3 — close-up of a heavily oxidised iron plate, rivet detail

// oxidation ladder · five tiers · zero rollback

01
pristine
cold iron. no oxide.
02
patina
first humidity. faint orange film.
03
flaking
surface gives. sheets peel.
04
crumbling
structure falters. red dust.
05
scoria
terminal. iron is dust.

six systems
that make decay
feel earned

an idle game shouldn't be a number-go-up clicker. this one tracks materials, weather, and a slowly rotting yard you actually care about.

SPEC.01 / loop

click → oxidise → upgrade

tap any iron object to advance its oxidation tick. five tiers from pristine to scoria. the more you click, the more rust dust you bank for upgrades.

SPEC.02 / bots

1 to 5 patina bots

spend rust dust on autonomous patina bots. each one walks the yard rusting things at a different cadence. five-bot end-game runs hot.

SPEC.03 / shop

an upgrade tree, not a paywall

click power, weather modifiers, bot speed, yard size, OST tracks. every upgrade is bought with in-game dust. zero microtransactions.

SPEC.04 / sprites

60-sprite library, hand-curated

every iron object in the yard is a hand-tinted sprite. cars, fences, bolts, rebar, water tanks, tin roofs. each rusts on its own schedule.

SPEC.05 / OST

15 ambient tracks

a slow industrial-ambient OST runs in the background. no vocals, no drops, no urgency. it pairs with rusting the way ambient should.

SPEC.06 / save

localStorage, no signup

the yard remembers. close the tab, come back tomorrow, the patina bots kept rusting. no email, no account, no telemetry.

sixty sprites.
each one rusts on its own schedule.

every cell below is one hand-tinted iron object in the yard. tier-1 is cold steel; tier-5 is scoria — terminal rust. when the bots are running, every cell drifts down the ladder.

60 / 60 catalogued · 5 oxidation tiers · zero rollback

iron is just unfinished rust.

— fe2o3 design log, march 2026

not yet
oxidising.

fe2o3 is in active development. the browser build is being rewritten; no public playtest is up right now. drop an email and we will write back when the first stable build is open for play.