Dustborn
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 16.9h 21.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.77/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 784 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2GB or equivalent, 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 23 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dreamfall Chapters ($24.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats The Uncertain: Light At The End ($9.99, scores 14).
More about Dustborn
7 of the 467 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 609 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
75% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 19, 00:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i loved the game personally. the characters were gorgeous and loveable. and as a musician, i enjoyed the rhythm games and the overall musical aspect of the game. the plot is insane and kept me hooked. will play again!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Finally got round to playing this after buying it out of sheer annoyance at all the negative responses early on. Turns out that was all rather ironic. Red Thread do wonderful story telling and I willingly spent a few immersive hours letting the doom and gloom headlines fade away. Loved the bits of poetry here and there and Rubber Ducky's cameo! (Looking out for at least one crow ref in the upcoming games...) Thanks...
So unoptimized that it literally destroyed my Ryzen 7 9800X3D. I threw the box away too, so I can't use the warranty. This game cost me $400-500. Only played it as a torture goal, but costing me half a grand is way more torture than I had planned. Play at your own risk.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Dustborn scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/721180/dustbornReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.