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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“Dustborn is surprisingly good! Game does not deserve the hate it is getting. This is a well made game with beautiful graphics/art, appropriate comic style weaved into choices, excellent voice acting, plot is paced well, interactive basically 360 camera control is nice, and story…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“I found the game fun but flawed... It builds upon the adventure game formula set by the Dreamfall Chapters, but with added combat and the odd mini-game. The new conversation system is pretty engaging overall, though I could do without the frustrating musical rhythm mini-game...…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“This game could have been good…but it’s all such a mess…the dialogue, the writing, the game play mechanics, the overall narrative. It’s basically one mistake after another. It’s infuriating. The game shows so much promise, I love the cell shaded graphical style, loved the…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 19:34 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Dustborn is now available on macOS
The long-awaited macOS version includes everything added to the game since launch, including numerous quality-of-life improvements, optimisations and bug fixes, and new features from our major 1.14 up
Free content update v1.14
Since launch, we’ve had a ton of ideas for things we wanted to add to Dustborn. And since the release of v1.8 last autumn, we’ve been bringing those ideas to life, piece by piece — improving the game
Dustborn update v1.12: March 2025
Dustborn Marches ever onwards (sorry) (Yes: we know it's April, the patch notes are coming in very late! No: this isn't an April Fool's post.) Our latest content update is a relatively minor one, but
GLAAD Media Awards Nomination for Outstanding Video Game
"Dustborn is perhaps 2024’s most misunderstood game. Upon its release in August, an unfortunate barrage of online criticisms quickly usurped any opportunity for meaningful discourse about it. But havi
Brand NEW Dustborn demo!
We've released a new demo! But wait…WHY a new demo when the game's been out for FIVE (!) months? We removed the old demo before Christmas. It was very outdated; developed for Steam's Next Fest in June
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Story Rich · Singleplayer · Comic Book · Choices Matter · Female Protagonist · LGBTQ+ · Colorful · Lore-Rich · Adventure · Emotional · Exploration (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Polish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 26 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.wearethedustborn.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
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