Road Trip Adventure Dustborn Resurfaces at Gamescom - Hardcore Gamer

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This year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live wasn’t home to many world premieres this time around, but to this writer, the world premiere of Dustborn stood out quite a bit…largely because it was baffling as to why it was being labelled as a world premiere. A road trip adventure form Red Thread Games, Dustborn was first announced in June of 2020 back at the Future Games Show during that time. Later on in December of the same year, it was announced that Quantic Dream would be publishing the game, one of their first forays into publishing, complete with a teaser on their YouTube channel. And yet now here we are, with the latest trailer for the game being called a “reveal Trailer” despite already being revealed and Geoff Keighley calling it a world premiere. What was up?

In fairness, the simplest explanation might just be that since a couple of years have passed without any major updates when it came to Dustborn’s development, a re-introduction might might have been in order. So welcome to the post-apocalyptic Divided States of America, as seen in the trailer below. It’s home to our protagonist Pax, a con artist who’s been hired to travel from Pacifica to Nova Scotia in order to deliver a stolen package, travelling with accomplices undercover as a punk rock band on a road trip across Neo-Western landscapes, all while avoiding the authoritarian Justice that now controls the American Republic. It’s a lot to take in, and this is even before we get into Pax’s powers.

Yes, Pax is an “Anomal” with the ability to weaponize language, as seen in the clip when she tells one of her companions to shut up. Pretty appropriate for a game all about the power of words, among other things. These powers seem to manifest in some moments of combat,