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Dustborn

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.

Released Aug 20, 2024Mostly Positive · 70% of 601PEGI 16
Steam Deck VerifiedActionAdventureIndieLGBTQ+SingleplayerStory Rich
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Publisher: Spotlight by Quantic Dream
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About Dustborn

Dustborn

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.

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!

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Story

Show

The year is 2030, three decades after the Broadcast. You play Pax: ex-con, outcast, con-artist, and Anomal with superhuman powers fuelled by disinformation. Your job: to transport a package across a divided America. But this is not a one-woman job. The fanatical Puritans are on your ass, the authoritarian Justice is in your way, and you’re four-months pregnant. You need help. You need a crew. Joined by a motley mob of misfits with their own weird powers, you must overcome the many obstacles that stand in your way — through manipulation, subterfuge, and force — to reach your final destination and escape your troubled past.

Trailers

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Game details

Developers
Red Thread Games
Publishers
Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Release date
Aug 20, 2024
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, LGBTQ+, Singleplayer, Story Rich, Female Protagonist, Choices Matter, Comic Book, Colorful, Lore-Rich, Emotional, Alternate History, Exploration, Action-Adventure, Third Person, Drama, Atmospheric, Futuristic, Superhero
Modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
26 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Camera
Third person
Engine
Unity

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedSupportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
Spanish (Spain)SupportedNot supportedSupported
RussianSupportedNot supportedSupported
NorwegianSupportedNot supportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedNot supportedSupported
ItalianSupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • 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

Recommended

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Ratings

Steam reviews

Mostly Positive

70% of 601

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Metacritic

68

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IGDB critics

63

3 critic scores

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Age rating

PEGI 16

Violence, Bad Language

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Verified

  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Shows Steam Deck button icons
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Verified

ProtonDB: Early reports: Gold (4 reports) See reports

DLC & editions

Also on Steam

  • Dustborn (Original Game Soundtrack)
  • Dustborn - The Vision Tour Bundle
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