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Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Dustborn is a indie, story rich and singleplayer game
developed by Red Thread Games
and published by Spotlight by Quantic Dream.
Released on August 20th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese and Polish.
It has received 389 reviews of which 270 were positive and 119 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 19.99€ on Instant Gaming.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 5th generation or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2GB or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB available space
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Its a punk indie comic featuring a queer and poc cast. Its good but not without issues. dialogue over laps a lot, combat is loose and there are places towards the end of the game where the scenery seem to not be textured properly but the moments where the game works it works really well, sitting around the campfire and making choices that influence who you and your friends are is great. whatever comes next for the devs will no doubt be worth checking out
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One of the few woke games with a soul. wrote a review, and accidentally deleted it halfway through. TL;DR version: the story is political coded, but the main message is words are power. thought was actually put into the lore of not-America the worst part is the beginning of the game. is this supposed to be game about unlikable protagonist or "ULTRA WOKE X-MEN"? the opposing factions are barely defined, unless you go looking for info. justice - wants to use words for power and failed to re-write the universe puritans - might want to censor the language or might want to do the same thing the syndicate - want to learn about it the AI/robots - come out of nowhere, but apparently want something with it too Pax is too loosely defined. the male protagonists dont take charge in social settings. I like that Eli was once with the big biker boss woman, but this seems to have been written for comedy. Sai - is a developed char. she wears revealing clothing, dyed hair, piercings, they patched out her drinking scenes. is she a devout muslim? a jack muslim? or is she not? ghost bustin, learning dragon shouts, proto-language writing the universe... all of these things could have been done better... or done less embarrassingly in the case of "bustin' makes me feel good". our mute companion, Pax, and our unborn 'selves' are supposed to be proto-wunder-kin but your big real game play selling point "Words have power" is literally an after thought - AFTER we learn the group is on the run. AFTER we learn its a clandestine mission. AFTER we learn theres an underground syndicate. AFTER we make it out of California, which sounds like it's doing BETTER than the rest of the US. AFTER we break into our old neighborhood. an entire episode goes by before we learn ANYTHING about it. and the endings, which BTW you'll need to min max certain interactions to get, are decided if each of the characters decide to fight a losing war, do nothing, or join the syndicate... THEO DIES! also Pax can tell someone she never met she may/may not be willing to give up her child. this could have been set up better. seeing as it would mean: one of their top researchers leaving, and Pax's own skill/knowledge/connections to the wreckonning being lost... ... but it just comes out of nowhere, like "would you mind making your beloved child an orphan [or worse] for us pretty please" - i'm surprised there wasn't an option to scream her into weeping on the spot. i played pax as a noobie trying to be a hero and a good sister, and i played pax as a meanie ball buster. its far from the worst game, i liked parts of it. the tell-tale esque puzzles and easter eggs (tire dragging) were enjoyable. how is it that red thread - the people for the jorney beyond series (dual worlds magic vs future technology that spanned over a decade) are responsible for this alien road trip about lesbians vs the cops? whatever... trigger all the noobs you want, this story ends on a cliff hangar anyway... i expect this'll continue with Pax's kid, discovering THEY/THEIR mom's old friends and fixing the world epic mickey style... or merging with the alien hive squids and getting an answer to the universe's questions and become language-Jesus... dang i think i accidentally wrote a sequel where dustborn is actually a secret prequel to dragon-shouts' Deus Ex. oh yeah, the dialogue. you've heard more & worse opinions on this elsewhere. everyone talks like quippy tweens on twitter, or their all going out of their way to correct each other. everyone has the heir of "you're not quite perfect in this thought of yours, let me correct you!" which is needed sometimes, but not 90% of the whole game. how about a character just says "I like this" or "I dont like this" or "i want to do X for Y" and then everyone just agrees! or [advanced lesson now] We as the player make a choice, and there's a MIX of reactions to what we just did. Maybe... Eli makes a joke, N04m thinks its hot, Sai thinks it's cool but later says it scared her because she's sweet like that. Theo says you're acting childish, and Izzy is the one to try to correct you every 5 seconds. maybe you make a conversation piece of the political bits, instead of more buffy the vampire slayer dialogue... jeez...
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I liked the homage to the rhythm game era, like Rockband and DDR. I also like the nostalgia of the point and click games of the past and the retro mini games. The characters unexpectedly grew on me and the way the game handles camera movements is incredible. I love how you can frame different areas during most cut scenes. I like the choice system as well. I wasn't always on board with the plot and some of the political and social frameworks were extremely on the nose, but I felt like I wanted to stay on for the ride. The last couple of chapters did feel incredibly rushed, including Sai's storyline, which I wish was unpacked more. But the comic book style and plot twists were satisfying to watch. I liked it.
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I picked up Dustborn during one of the 2024 holiday sales, I love The Longest Journey and respect Ragnar Tørnquist as a creator. I started it and was bombarded by a bunch of buzzwords, got to a song where they're like "We're the Dustborn/We're the new porn" and I was like what is this trash and put it on the backlog. Fast forward only a few weeks later and my government is trying to scrub out trans people and seriously discussing occupying the Gaza Strip. I was talking to a close friend about the 1984ness of it all and they replied "1984 had some good ideas I think all of the advancements of the 20th century are bad". I needed a break from "conservative" American politics badly and Dustborn sounded like it would be a warm and welcoming echo chamber, regardless of whether I agree with it. But it's not warm or welcoming. Dustborn is bumbling and confused. Parts of the game feel like it's really trying to say something important, but it's less a call to action or a plea to understand and more like a long Twitter rant that collapses under its own frivolity. Certain ideas are thrown into your face but the writers didn't know what to do with them? One of the weirdest is the party's reaction to the character Girl. There's a minute long discussion about how presumptuous it is to call the character Girl because we don't know what this eight year old's gender identity is. They resign to calling her Girl even though they could just as easily name her Kid or Hope or something that would actually mean something instead of wasting my time with stupid gibberish that they don't even follow up on. This is basically the entirety of Dustborn, one big self-effacing discussion with no real purpose. The game is a long collection of conversations between various "diverse" people with serviceable 3D beat-'em-up sections and a couple simple puzzles. Like if you're going to make it this bombastic "left-leaning" game, why not follow through and make everyone strong and sure of themselves? They're all so insecure and weird about their own beliefs from start to finish. I guess in some ways it's trying to be realistic with it's depiction of the different minorities and identities it's trying to portray? They have a very tangible goal of great importance, but they're constantly hiding things and losing focus and pissing each other off. Am I supposed to believe that endlessly disagreeing is human nature when all the American republicans seem to be in pretty good agreement that they think there should only be two genders? I was hoping Dustborn would create it's own liberal way of seeing, but it refuses. Maybe it's afraid to offend someone, but the fate of the future is in these character's hands and all they do is process emotions. I identify as trans and I get a lot of flack locally because I'll wear dresses and skirts and everything but I don't close shave my face. Now I get the average idiot telling me I'm gay like it's an insult or people saying they hate me or whatever, but the thing that actually cuts deep now is that I get a larger amount of negative comments from, I guess "conventional" trans people who don't like that I'm not trying to pass hard enough? One of my best friends is openly gay for twenty years and he's received a lot of hate from people for not falling into stereotypical mannerisms like you would have seen on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy back then. So is that the message here? We're all too busy talking and arguing over dumb crap to ever actually accomplish much at all? The game asserts words are power and have the ability to control or hurt or heal people, it spends nine chapters building up these colorful and likable characters and then abruptly rushes to a conclusion that feels so half baked. They're just still arguing about what options will change anything, whether its running around protesting or trying to manipulate the entire world into just aligning with these wacky mutant people. My absolute least favorite part is that the average non-mutant population of the Republic is being infested with weird ghosts (the idea of echoes from our cultural past infesting people's minds is totally classic and appreciated by the way) that make them believe conspiracies, but then the main characters unravel a government conspiracy. So we're both trivializing conspiracies and making them very real. The devs really needed to pick one. It would have been fine if the "rightwing" conspiracies weren't the only thing the echoes were repeating, but no, "I'M AFRAID OF ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT" is presented constantly. It just gives this "my free speech is better than yours" vibe which is everywhere now. So yeah, I went into Dustborn looking for a little bit of hope and instead it took a dump and left a stain on my brain that will probably wash away in a week. Maybe if the conclusion didn't feel so rushed after all the glacial campfire discussions there could have been a stronger narrative here. Whoever this game was made for represents a very, VERY small amount of probably very, VERY loud Twitter X whatever users that weren't going to spend $30 on this. I'm going to make this review positive because I want more weird games like this to be made and nobody's going to read this anyway. Thank you for making a weird game, I didn't like it.
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the game is aesthetically repulsive and an insult to the entire project of world-civilization, playing it for only three hours I developed a terrible headache within the first; however; the US Govt provided the developers with a grant of 250k to combat misinformation, and I support the Free West
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Dustborn is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
Dustborn is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Dustborn received 270 positive votes out of a total of 389 achieving a rating of 6.62.
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Dustborn was developed by Red Thread Games and published by Spotlight by Quantic Dream.
Dustborn is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Dustborn is not playable on MacOS.
Dustborn is not playable on Linux.
Dustborn is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Dustborn. Explore additional content available for Dustborn on Steam.
Dustborn does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Dustborn does not support Steam Remote Play.
Dustborn is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Red Thread Games
Publisher
Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Release
20 Aug 2024
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