Whether you are deciding to raid now or at night, to team up with someone, or to wait for your neighbour by the door, the question is the same: are they in the game right now? Here are three ways to answer it, from the simplest to the most precise.

Method 1. Steam status

Open the player’s Steam profile. If they are in Rust and have not hidden their activity, it says "In-Game: Rust" under the name.

Downsides:

  • many players hide their status or go Invisible;
  • the status does not tell you which server they are on;
  • Steam shows the game as running even when the player is idling in the main menu.

Method 2. BattleMetrics

BattleMetrics collects sessions from servers: who joined, when, and when they left. Search the player’s name on BattleMetrics and open their page to see the server list and last activity.

Downsides:

  • name search is noisy: thousands of identical names, and names change often;
  • one player can have several records you have to piece together by hand;
  • you have to work out their usual schedule yourself.

More on searching in how to find a player on BattleMetrics.

Method 3. Lookup by profile link

The fastest way is to paste a Steam profile link or SteamID into RustRecon. The free report shows Steam bans and hours; Pro adds the online picture:

  1. Where the player is now: the server if online, or the last server and when they were seen.
  2. When they usually play: days and hours in your time zone.
  3. Server history: where they spend most of their time.

The lookup goes by SteamID, not by name, so name changes do not break it. See how to find a player’s SteamID.

Sessions are recorded by the server, not Steam, so online status is visible even with a private profile.

When you need the whole clan offline

One player is only half the picture. For a raid, what matters is when the whole group is asleep. Pro includes Recon: add up to eight SteamIDs and the site overlays their schedules, showing the window when nobody is usually online.

And instead of checking by hand, Pro lets you track a player: the Telegram bot messages you when they join a server, leave, or change their name.

What you cannot see

  • Servers not tracked by BattleMetrics leave no sessions. If someone plays only on such a server, they will look offline.
  • A session only shows that the player was on the server. AFK in a base and raiding look the same.