Dustborn let me smash fascists and flirt with my situationship on a road trip across America

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The future is queer—if you're along for a ride.

Dustborn is a narrative-driven, action-adventure road trip across a zany dystopian America. Set in an alternate-history , friends, lovers, and found family flee across the country with a bat in one hand and guitar in the other. Undercover as a punk band on tour, this group of outcast queers and exploited workers fight fascist cops and smash corporate drones while navigating new and evolving relationships.

Covered in retro-turned-sci-fi propaganda, Dustborn certainly reminds me of Fallout’s post-apocalypse, though Dustborn's neo-Western landscape is the result of a police state and evil tech companies . And with cel-shaded comic book art and neon punk wardrobes, Dustborn invites much aesthetic comparison. But within these familiar trappings is an unabashedly punk story about queers fighting cops and corporations exploiting workers.

You'll get to use these powers to beat up robots and bike gangs. Combat consists of basic melee combat with combos, blocks, and rolls, but also the magical spoken word powers. These buffs and attacks are incorporated into the action through a snappy UI that slows time, kinda like spells in FF7 Rebirth, keeping the action moving. And there’s narrative dressing to it all too.

There's lots of words, and most of them are voice-acted and directed competently. What I found even more immersive were well-crafted character animations. Body language does a lot for adding character to everyone, and if you choose to bring Pax and Noam together they'll share soft touches and long gazes with each other. Adding everything up, Dustborn actually begins to feel like an RPG: the road trip, the party of strong, clashing personalities, the quest against an oppressive system.

 

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