Dust to the End
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GT 760, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.39. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 6 in the 6 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Survivalist ($4.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Sheltered 2 ($19.99, scores 2).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 528 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.6 hours; clearing it takes 81, which is 8.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
55% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 09:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
game gets stuck on loading screen when entering a city or battle also i can not load save games
6/10. Excessively grindy, with gameplay that came out 20 years too late. This game would have done well in a previous era, when your parents only bought you a few games a year if any, and the games had to last. That was also a time when simply being able to play as a character was enough to immerse you. But this is the internet era. Simply playing as a post-apocalypse merchant doesn't mean much if the gameplay...
This game seems to be on sale/priced with a good discount. It tries to take caravaneer and juice up the graphics and atmosphere. For the price it's a good few hours of experience in a trading game, at minimum. I get what the negative reviews are saying, it is not your epic masterful caravan trading game. But if you want to have a few hours of fun in the desert, I'd pick it up. So about 30 hours later, I'm still...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dust to the End scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1074070/dust-to-the-endReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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