About Dust Wasteland Survival:
From Dust is a fantastic puzzle/god game. You control the Breath and employ various powers to shape the world, allowing your followers to settle some truly precarious villages along the way. The game is still very impressive, even so many years after its release. Sometimes, I’ll take a break from the occasionally stressful obstacles and just watch a newborn river grow and evolve, the real-time erosion mechanics creating fascinating river deltas. The only real drawback is that the game is entirely too short, with the story missions taking me about 8 hours to finish. There are challenge maps available as well, but they don’t scratch quite the same itch as the campaign levels. Still, it’s worth the price of admission. Wrestling with nature until it bends to your will is supremely satisfying every single time.Highly recommend… ubisoft installer aside. It’s a short little game, in the god-game genre which has more or less disappeared these days. It’s at its heart a puzzle game (but not exactly a head scratcher), you have a set of interactions with the world (picking up earth, water, lava, plants etc. which you can then move to another location with different interactions) and using this to help AI controlled villagers expand across the map to then open the way to the next map. Sometimes you have to deal with tsunamis, sometimes volcanoes, sometimes both. It has some really good concepts and some fun mechanics, they’re a bit barebone and as noted the game is quick to get through. It kinda feels like a proof of concept game (and we never got a sequel to expand on it), but for what we get it’s a good time. If you like old school god / puzzle games this is really something you should check out. You’re going to have to install Ubisoft Connect for this one though. I guess Ubisoft treats their customers like they treat their employees… which is to say not good
