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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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Top Critic Average
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Posted on: December 30, 2024

Minspi

Games: 304 Reviews: 2

One of the most toxic games I have seen.

All games with a story pushes a viewpoint i Personally am Pro LGBTQ rights But i do agree this game is extremely trash and toxic To the point it almost feels like it was made to parody the ideals it says to promote. A game with a political message needs to first be a good game and not have the message be a sledgehammer the game is trying to kill you with.There is a ton of games that promotes the rights it claims to be fighting for. The thing is Those games comes from the community and are written with care and not from the far end. For example for Right leaning media that fails to entertain and be a good product we have M.R Birchum An animated show that does not understand the basics of comedy and a main character who is a complete jerk that treats his students like shit but we are meant to root for there is toxicity on both sides instead of attacking each other we should discuss with open minds and do things SANELY AND NOT FROM A RADICAL VIEWPOINT.


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Posted on: December 30, 2024

Black_Hart

Games: 288 Reviews: 27

DEI-Born

Dustborn is a game that tries so hard to push its political agenda that it forgets to be fun. The story is heavy-handed, constantly preaching at the player instead of letting the narrative flow naturally. The characters feel more like walking slogans than real people, and the gameplay—centered around "verbal combat"—is repetitive and dull. It's frustrating because there's potential here. The setting is intriguing, and the idea of using words as weapons could have been unique. But instead of crafting an engaging experience, Dustborn drowns in its need to make a statement. It doesn’t trust the audience to think for themselves and spends too much time lecturing instead of entertaining. If you’re looking for a game that prioritizes storytelling and gameplay over pushing a message, this isn’t it. Dustborn is a disappointment.


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Posted on: December 30, 2024

hothamsandwich

Games: 249 Reviews: 5

A modern game for a modern audience

A legendary game, notorious for being obnoxiously woke. You will cancel people, you will call white people racist with context sensitive buttons. A game so absurd people will look back on it during retrospectives covering the ‘woke era’ in gaming.


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Posted on: December 30, 2024

dreamcaster

Games: 424 Reviews: 4

The game that no one wants.

Paraphrasing Tree Beard, there are not enough curses in the tongues of Elves, Dwarves and Men to define this abomination. The game leads you through a series of events where you have to mistreat your fellow humans in the worst ways possible while pretending to virtuous. Your opinion doesn't matter. Your feeling don't matter. You have to behave like the developers want and pretend that you're being a good person. Note, my previous review was deems offensive and was removed. Let's hope this one passes the criteria of whoever evaluates reviews.


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Posted on: December 31, 2024

MegaManTrigger

Games: 722 Reviews: 2

Don't let the five-star reviews fool you

Contrary to what some five-star reviewers may erroneously believe, we live in the age of YouTube, where any human being can easily view the contents of any given game simply by choosing to do so. It has not been necessary to actually play a game in order to form an educated opinion about its contents, for many years now. Of course this dumpster fire has a 4.8 out of 5 from verified owners, because the only people who were going to actually buy it were the people who agreed with its politics and had low standards for fiction quality. You don't need to be "anti-woke" to cringe mightily at this game's easily viewable contents. Ragnar Tørnquist used to be a good writer, but you won't see any of that here. If you enjoy seeing what a celebrated game writer can accomplish when he loses his mind (and with it any semblance of understanding how to write well) to a hyper-politicized void, then you should buy this game. The writing is the only thing you could possibly want to buy this game for, since the combat is both simplistic and clunky (think "subpar clone of the surface layer of Arkhamverse combat"), the voice acting is middling, and the worldbuilding is potentially interesting but is squandered on the main plot. "Alternate history where America became fascist" has so many ways it could work well and it boggles the mind that Tørnquist picked the lame "just let me soapbox at the player for hours" route. The main plot makes nearly no sense, the inevitable betrayal is followed by a poorly chosen "we forgive you" moment despite the supposed stakes, and the "real" villains are actually the ones who think truth exists in an objective sense (instead of, y'know, the fascist police state that's hunting the main party). For a game that's pretty overt about having political messages that tie into real life, it makes some very strange and borderline incoherent gestures along that axis. I'm a leftist and I don't want this game's messages anywhere near my beliefs or causes. Avoid.


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