From Dust
Skip · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.20/hr
- Reviews▼
- 67% of 2,994
- Critics
- 76 players 9 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 79% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.8h
- To 100%
- 12.1h 1.8x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 March 2013
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 20% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Sapiens ($24.99, scores 33) outscores it, and so does Stonehearth ($19.99, scores 45). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about From Dust
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 76 against 67 percent.
This site sampled 531 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 647 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
this game was kind of insane when it came out in 2011. i used to just replay it and play in the sand and make rivers and such. great fun back then. still pretty good today
1 more review
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
From Dust scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/33460/from-dustReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.