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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 29, 2024

FarkyTheDog1932

Games: Reviews: 1

Overly colorful propaganda piece

This propaganda piece masquerading as a game only has one real purpose: to influence the easily led (which is sadly most people nowadays) into being okay with bad people while normalizing bad behaviors. If you want the games industry to stop sh*tting all over the consumer then start by not buying this kind of trash (or at the very least avoid paying more than a few dollars for it in a bargain bin).


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Posted on: January 1, 2025

bloQQ

Games: 52 Reviews: 1

To bring balance . .

To not produce a review as pointless as @Zoidberg on 28.12.2024, and to bring some balance, this short text came into existence. After actually checking a bunch of reviews, watching some videos and reading statements of the developers, it's rather obvious here, that the main selling point of this sorry effort, is it's agenda and it's black and white narrative. Only simple minds are easily impressed by a production which apparently tries to generate a story about some rebellious youths (the good guys11!!!), which are persecuted because they are the only ones fighting against an authoritarian system they don't want do be a part of. Since the game is mainly about the message and much less about providing an engaging gameplay experience, it should be judged primarly focusing on the message as well. And there is not much to say than that the message is just awful. While the idea of words of power (Skyrim Reference) is rather unique, the execution is abysmal. Some examples: - The game encourages to cancel and bully people (age rating from 12-16), while the developers are trying to build the same narrative around themselves they tried to generate for their protagonists, (progressive visionaries against the big bad bullying system of misogynist and racist oppressive people), - inclusivity is allegedly promoted, while the protagonists are isolating themselves and also treat others (helpful humanoid robots for example) based on their prejudices / misconceptions, - the game promotes delusional negative perspectives about the world (everyone is bad and needs to be rejected), and about yourself as a player identifying with the games protagonists (somehow fighting and conflict or avoidance is inevitable due to the lack of options / choices the game provides). So even judging the game by it's message, it comes out as a shallow experience and not a good one, like "we save the world with the power of friendship". You can even consider it harmful. Avoid this trash.


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Posted on: December 30, 2024

Fuz

Games: 607 Reviews: 45

Trash.

I'm a huge fan of The Longest Journey and The Secret World, it's really painful see Ragnar making this. It's woke trash, so bad I'm still not convinced it's not a parody.


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Posted on: January 2, 2025

CurryField

Games: 196 Reviews: 3

Dustborn happened to me in real life

The features of canceling people, bullying them or even normalizing abstract and absurd behaviour hits home too hard. It does not trigger pleasant memories. Avoid at all costs.


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Posted on: December 28, 2024

AgentBJ09

Games: 921 Reviews: 5

Race/culture propaganda in game form.

If you hate your hard earned money, or the concept of fun, and/or your skin color, this game's for you. Everyone else with even a hint of taste in gaming, or aversion to propaganda, save your money. (Spotlight by Quantic Dream... Well, that explains a lot.)


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