Dustborn

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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.

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Developer:
Red Thread Games
Publisher:
Quantic Dream
Release date:
20 August 2024
Recent Steam reviews:
Mixed (18)
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (512)

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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. Looking for a way out and a new life, 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 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 need to cross an entire continent.

Words have power. Like, actual power. Fight with Shouts and use your 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.

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.

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.

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.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
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*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

User reviews

punchify
Not recommended | 06 Mar 2026
19.7h played

At first I quite liked the game, but the longer I kept playing the more annoying the characters got. The fights where too easy. If you died you just kept getting revieved and you could just skip the fights overall. I

Helpful: 30
Slippin Timmy
Not recommended | 27 Feb 2026
31.6h played

I have thought about dropping my self-inflicted aspiration to only rate games I have actually finished more than once while playing this. + Comic style + Dialoges feel natural, it's really nice that some answers go away

Helpful: 63
Just a Sammy
Not recommended | 18 Apr 2026
25.3h played

First of all a part of this game worth talking about is that it ended up in the middle of a bunch of culture war nonsense, meaning most discourse around it is irrelevant to actually discussing the game's potential and

Helpful: 44
Mrs. Mom
Not recommended | 14 Apr 2026
14.7h played

Words are not weapons. MY HANDS ARE WEAPONS! "If you have time to start a revolution with poetry, you have time to mop the kitchen floor!" [hr][/hr] The Situation: I was told this is a game about a "road trip." I

Helpful: 22
Erdnuss
Not recommended | 04 Apr 2026
2.7h played

This is actually the worst game ever created, the characters are all insufferable, the story is making me want to rip out my eyes and chew on them and the fighting is horrendous. Do not make the same mistake as me and

Helpful: 81
thenewiron
Recommended | 19 Mar 2026
13.2h played

You're either going to love this game or you're not. I personally really enjoyed it, felt like a strange combination of Borderlands and Life is Strange. I don't think I would recommend it to everyone but I would

Helpful: 16