Dustborn is a unique little game. It’s a narrative heavy road trip with audio-based superpowers, combat with a throwable baseball bat that can be recalled Mjollnir-style, and some light ghostbusting.
It’s an eclectic mix of ideas that might seem difficult to balance.The highlight here is definitely the story and the characters.
Set in the pseudo-dystopian hellscape known as America – an alternate history one, I mean, that’s now called the American Republic.
You play as a woman called Pax who is tasked with delivering a package to Nova Scotia and has a small team to help her out. Pax and two of this team are Anomals – individuals with superpowers stemming from a mysterious cataclysmic event – and are planning to use this trip to Nova Scotia to escape their lives to a country more accepting of them.
So in order to smuggle themselves and the mysterious package across the country, they start a band and go on tour. It’s the perfect cover….