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Dustborn

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Dustborn
Description
Dustborn is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure game about hope, love, friendships, robots…and the power of words. You play Pax: exile, con-artist, Anomal — with the ability to weaponize language. Looking for a new life and a way out, Pax has been hired to transport an important pa...
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1.7/5

( 56 Reviews )

1.7

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2024, Red Thread Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 10 (64-bit), Intel Core i5 5th generation or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2...
DLCs
Dustborn (Original Game Soundtrack), Dustborn - The Vision Tour Bundle
Time to beat
16.5 hMain
18.5 h Main + Sides
21 h Completionist
18 h All Styles
Description


Dustborn is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure game about hope, love, friendships, robots…and the power of words.

You play Pax: exile, con-artist, Anomal — with the ability to weaponize language. Looking for a new life and a way out, Pax has been hired to transport an important package from Pacifica to Nova Scotia, across the Justice-controlled American Republic. Sounds like a legit reason for a road-trip, right?

So pack your bags, assemble a crew with their own peculiar powers, and get ready to travel the country!

Explore the stunning Neo-Western landscapes of an alternate history America on a robot-driven tour bus, and stop at a dozen locations along the road to build your crew, manage relationships, complete missions, and face increasingly difficult challenges. But the people you stole the package from want it back, and the authoritarian Justice is hot on your heels, so don’t forget to pack your baseball bat!

(And, oh yeah, you’re travelling undercover as a punk-rock band, so you’ll definitely need to brush up on your musical skills before your next gig.)

At the end of the road lies salvation…but to get there, you’ll need to cross an entire continent.

THE POWER OF WORDS


Words have power. Like, actual power. Fight with Shouts and use Vox in conversations to manipulate people and talk your way out of hairy situations. Craft new words, and learn to wield a lingual arsenal against enemies...and friends.

A ROAD TRIP ACROSS A DIVIDED CONTINENT



On the road across an alternate history America, you’ll stop at iconic locations, take on unexpected assignments, meet a colorful cast of characters, enlist new crew members, and evade (or fight) your pursuers. See beautiful sights along the highway, rendered in a colorful graphic-novel-inspired art style that brings stunning 2D illustrations to 3D life.

A DIVERSE CAST OF CHARACTERS



Your crew is your (found) family. Round up, manage and lean on a motley mob of misfits with peculiar powers, compelling stories and clashing personalities. Branching dialogues lead to choices that shape relationships and change how your crew feels about themselves and others.

GAMEPLAY AS VARIED AS THE LANDSCAPE


In each location you’ll explore, investigate and chat with the people you meet, use the crew to overcome challenges, craft new Shouts and Vox, and rehearse with your band. You might also find yourself throwing Molotov cocktails from a motorbike, swing a baseball bat to take down helicopters…and more. You know, just normal everyday stuff.

Dustborn © 2024 Red Thread Games AS. All rights reserved. Published by Quantic Dream. Dustborn, Red Thread Games and the Red Thread Games logo are trademarks of Red Thread Games AS. Quantic Dream and Quantic Dream logos are trademarks of Quantic Dream S.A.S. All rights reserved.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
16.5 hMain
18.5 h Main + Sides
21 h Completionist
18 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
14.8 GB

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Posted on: December 27, 2024

GR11

Games: 55 Reviews: 23

How to be toxic - the game

I'll let you judge. From the description of skills in the game: "CANCEL - We've learned how to CANCEL someone. CANCEL will allow us to isolate people from their friends and compatriots. In battle, this could be a useful tool against enemies." "BULLY - We've learned to BULLY people. BULLY gives us the power to force people to do something they may not want to do, or to make them feel bad about themselves. In fights this could be highly effective on the targeted enemies." "NORMALIZE - We've learned how to NORMALIZE negative emotions. NORMALIZE gives us the ability to make people think certain behaviors or feelings are normal...but I'm not sure it will do much for us in a fight."


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Posted on: December 27, 2024

axoneko

Games: 277 Reviews: 3

Pretty toxic game

Let’s ignore all the “woke” noise, the game itself is just very toxic. It praises toxic behaviors like cancelling people who doesn’t agree with you, allows the player to isolate other characters and even bullying them. I wouldn’t care if the game was like Bully from Rockstar games, because that game shows and parodies that behavior.


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Posted on: December 31, 2024

Klassy Kitten

Games: 705 Reviews: 21

Took a chance - Regretted it.

"Dustborn is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure game about hope, love, friendships, robots…and the power of words." Combine this with the 50% discount and ISP download capacity to burn before Jan 1st and I took a chance. Went in blind expecting some of that sentence above to be true and I often take the stand "how bad can it be?" when purchasing unknowns. Sadly 'single player' is the only part of that statement that makes sense. Clunky combat, irrelevant choices (if they can even be called choices), writing so poor I'm not convinced its not generated by an early AI bot. The concept of 'words as weapons' also intrigued me... for about 10 minutes of gameplay before I realized its deep as a puddle and irrelevant. Even Guybrush Threepwood wouldn't have trouble parrying these linquistic diatribes. Not worth it.


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Posted on: December 27, 2024

Arutaru

Games: 366 Reviews: 2

Insufferable nightmare

Mediocre graphic and character design. Dialogs, and the story is terrible. I wasted a few hours trying to find anything in that game to justify spending money for it. Seriously, that game looks like a project made by a team of junior game developers.


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Posted on: December 31, 2024

Quto

Games: 659 Reviews: 5

How to Divide People: The Game

Played on Steam; hated it. A game where you try to 'CANCEL, BULLY' and 'NORMALIZE' behaviors. Behaviours I find appauling, mostly being done to 'FORCE' people to obey than to allow them to think for themselves. Could have a cool game about musicians beating things up like in No Straight Roads or Hi-Fi Rush. But it's been mostly 'MIND CONTROL' a crowd to go after one person while beating up robot's with a baseball bat. I don't reccomend this title; if ya got kids, point them to something from the Good Old Days and keep them far away from this one. I Reccomend buying another game on GOG avoiding this one: Game's I would reccomend? Witcher's 1 through 3, the first at $10, 2nd at $20 and 3rd at $40 full priced. Maybe Cyberpunk 2077 with their new DLC or Fallout 4? If it's still here to purchase, Warraft 1 and 2 would be good buy's as they are in Gog's Restoration program. Dragon Age Origins would be a good investment of time and money. Maybe Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2?


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