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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 403 reviews of which 284 were positive and 119 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 19.99€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified Dustborn into these genres:
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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The worst thing about this game it's the non-existent marketing. I learned about its existence because it was supposed to be the ultimate game destroyed by wokeness or whatever... I liked the art style so I decided to check it out. It took me 20h to finish. I did all of optional interactions I could find, all optional conversations, never skipped any fights. I enjoyed it so I didn't rush. The story is why you want to play this game. It's a road trip in a sci-fi alternative reality USA. Very weird. I liked it a lot. Characters you travel with are great, you can choose to interact with them more. You'll influence their character development and endings. Most of this game is talking... If that's your thing, you'll have fun. Conversation system is quite unique, often you can just choose NOT to use any option and just listen and wait how the conversation develops. New interaction options will dis/appear. Just trust what the tutorial says and don't be too bothered but just listening. Because of your background you get some magical voice powers. There are a few of those and they allow you to force people to do something during conversations. Those powers can also be used during combat to, for example, stun or push enemies away or make them fight each other instead of you. The story is divided into comic book issues. You get 10 of them. Most main events are fixed and will happen regardless, but some panels are influenced by your choices. You even get to see what percentage of players got this particular panel, which I liked a lot. I would love to see a proper sequel but I know it's probably unlikely to happen... Fights are basic but fun and you can just skip any of them if you wish. Overall, I recommend the game. But maybe add it to your wish list and try to get it half price :)
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Overall, this is a fun and fairly unique gaming experience, if a little unpolished. It's hard to nail down in terms of genre, but above all it is firmly story based. The core of the game is character development and relationships, with various minigames breaking up the conversations and choices (which do affect the story). Its biggest flaw might be that it attempts to do and say much more than the scope of the game will allow, which ultimately leads to confusion and what feels like a rushed conclusion to some storylines. Having played the game, you're still left with a lot of unanswered questions, and not in a good way. The minigames are fine, but they feel a little random; you learn one, then don't use it for a while, to the point where you're not sure if it will feature again... and then it does. It all comes together in the end... sort of. Less annoying is the way some conversations either glitch or don't give you enough info on which to base your answers, which is a huge thing in a choice-focused game. I did enjoy the story and the world, so if you like this sort of thing... you'll like this sort of thing.
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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 284 positive votes out of a total of 403 achieving a rating of 6.71.
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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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