From Dust is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, released 27 July 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What From Dust is
From Dust is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and released in 2011. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on LyN.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Explore 13 breathtaking territories of emergent gameplay. Master the natural forces at play on a mysterious archipelago and help a primitive tribe recover the lost powers of their ancestors.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
From Dust holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 69 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 20 hrs, roughly 2.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or 2.3 GHz AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+, 1.5 GB (Windows XP) / 2 GB (Windows Vista) of RAM and 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (*see supported list). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. 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
From Dust launched on 27 July 2011, within three weeks of Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, Star Fox 64 3D and Kirby Mass Attack. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, Star Fox 64 3D, Kirby Mass Attack.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for From Dust yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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