Dusk is getting a free HD ‘remaster’ around its anniversary

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The fifth anniversary of the revered retro-shooter DUSK is being celebrated in the best way possible: with a remaster. Publisher New Blood Interactive has just announced that DUSK will get the HD treatment to mark the occasion, with a lovely teaser trailer to accompany the news. The HD version of DUSK will be fully optional and made available within a couple of months, around December, according to the devs themselves.

The team behind DUSK has taken it upon itself to really make the HD version of the game special, according to the announcement. Rather than simply upgrading the base game for all owners, which might not even be desirable in the first place, devs are releasing DUSK HD as an optional download instead. “The HD models, textures, weapons, etc will all be available on the Steam Workshop as free downloads and not integrated into the base game until you install them!” Stellar news for those who enjoy DUSK‘s hyper-retro aesthetic, that’s for sure, but it doesn’t take more than a passing glance at the HD “remaster” to see that it’s not quite as HD as one might expect in this day and age. That, too, is by design.

Even though these new assets are certainly higher-def than the original game’s default assets, it’s clear as day that they, too, are relatively retro in their own right. In short, instead of looking like a game that had to have come out in the mid-90s, DUSK HD looks like something straight out of the early 2000s. Devs claim that they’ve reworked all of the game’s assets to support this new visual style, meaning it will be a great opportunity for a new playthrough, even if you’re a DUSK veteran.

According to Dave Oshry, head of New Blood Interactive, this entire project started its life as a series of “‘HD’