Dust: An Elysian Tail
immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and…
Dust: An Elysian Tail is an adventure developed by Humble Hearts, released 15 August 2012 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and iOS. The main story takes about 13.5 hrs to finish.
What Dust: An Elysian Tail is
Dust: An Elysian Tail is an adventure game developed by Humble Hearts and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2012 action role-playing game developed by American independent designer Dean Dodrill studio Humble Hearts with support by Microsoft Game Studios Japan and published by Microsoft Studios. It was released for Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade on August 15, 2012. It was subsequently ported by Humble Hearts for Windows on May 24, 2013, for Linux and OS X on December 17, 2013, and for PlayStation 4 in October 2014. A version for the Nintendo Switch was announced at E3 2018 and was released by Limited Run Games on September 10, 2018.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Dust: An Elysian Tail holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 181 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 27 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 10 compatible video card with shader model 3.0 support. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dust: An Elysian Tail launched on 15 August 2012, within three weeks of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dust: An Elysian Tail yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Characters
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