From Dust
Skip · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.74.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in March 2013. It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 16. The current cut is what makes it a 20.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Stonehearth ($19.99, scores 45) and Craft The World ($18.99, scores 77) both outscore it.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 76 against 67 percent.
This site sampled 527 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 645 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is the first God-game I've played. I've always dreamt of playing Black & White games, but was never able to as its never been ported or brought to any PC platform which made the game a lost relic. The mechanics are unlike anything I've seen and its interesting this kind of tech hasn't been used in other games since (that I know of). The way you terraform the landscape and how it changes with even the smallest...
A great little god game but with limited content. I would love to see a sequel or extra maps (the challenge maps suck) but that is unlikely to happen. It requires Uplay so buy on sale because who knows when Ubisoft will steal it back from you.
Ubisoft account wont let me log in anymore and when I try to reset my password, i just get an "error" message with no explanation. Obviously customer support has been of no support whatsoever because Ubisoft and Ive exhausted every other option, just being led in a circle. Because of this, I cant play ANY Ubisoft game, including any of the ones Ive had for a long time. So no, I would not recommend this or any...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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From Dust scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/33460/from-dustThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 4, price as of Sep 24.
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