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DUSTBORN

Developer

Red Thread Games

Publisher

Quantic Dream

Format

PC, PS5, Xbox Series

Origin

Norway

Release

TBA

For anyone who spends too much time online, it’s a common refrain: Twitter is not the world. But what, Dustborn asks, if it was? In the game’s dystopian America, the Internet’s been shut off by an authoritarian government, but that hasn’t stopped ideas from our online world bleeding into their reality. This is a place where ‘block’, ‘gaslight’ and ‘trigger’ take on different meanings – where they are, in fact, superpowers. Though perhaps not ones you’d especially want.

We see the first of these Vox powers at work in the game’s prologue, as protagonist Pax rides in the passenger seat of a hatchback carrying her crew – Sai, Noam, Theo – across the Divided States, from a seceded California

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