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The development of Architect of Ruin initially began in Rust with the Bevy game engine due to personal preferences and the positive community around Bevy. However, challenges such as collaboration difficulties, abstraction issues, rapid iteration needs, migration pain, and modding limitations prompted a switch to Unity and C#. The team conducted an experiment evaluating core features implementation, leading to a full port decision. The switch resulted in faster development, better collaboration, and improved maintainability.

Migrating away from Rust.

Looks like there’s a trend now on moving back from Rust

I don’t want to sound like a Rust zealot, but I think it’s good to be fair. Game dev is an area where Rust has always struggled, and not an area that many people have really been pushing as far as I can tell. Most people I see doing Rust gamedev are using Rust to write robust and fast graphics of some sort, usually for academic purposes. Even Tiny Glade, the only marketed Rust game I know of, was taking advantage of its performance and the Bevy ECS for its demandingly beautiful generative visual style.
This is not people backpedaling on Rust as a trend: it’s just a confirmation of something we already knew, that Rust isn’t a magical silver bullet to answer all our problems.

Everyone jumped on rust, now everyone is coming back, not me tho - i finna die on this hill

Rust is the far better compiler, with SpaceTimeDB having considerable advantages over traditional runtimes and build pipelines.
But Unity has just been doing it SOLID for decades now. I stopped doing Game Dev in 2017 after moving to Professional Software Dev aka .NET slop
I came back to Game Dev in 25 after getting a new Meta Quest 3 and there have been all these debacles and issues, but the underlying tech still works. Easy deployment. Easy integration. NO BACKWARDS SUPPORT. It’s Great! I’m running the Evolutionary Render Pipeline (ERP), it’s currently in beta and gets updated every nanosecond, but it sure is fast!