Credits: Red Thread Games

Get ready for an epic journey across alternate America with Dustborn™, slated to hit the gaming world on August 20, 2024. This single-player, story-driven action-adventure game, brought to life by Quantic Dream and Oslo-based Red Thread Games, is for every thrill-seeker looking for a blend of mystery, alliance, and combat.

Embark on a daring quest as Pax, an Anomal with the ability to weaponize language, transporting a crucial package from Pacifica to Nova Scotia. Disguised as a punk-rock band, Pax and her team traverse the mesmerizing Neo-Western landscapes, recruiting members, strengthening bonds, and completing unforeseen missions while dealing with their pursuers.

A unique feature of Dustborn™ is the power of words, used as a strategic element in the game. Pax uses her vocal prowess to avoid sticky situations, neutralizing potential threats and influencing her crew. Assembling and managing this team of diverse characters will require cautious use of Pax's abilities, as each member comes with compelling stories and contrasting personalities.

Engage in intriguing investigations, solve puzzles harnessing your crew’s distinctive powers, and experience action-packed combats using weaponized words. Plus, enjoy live musical performances from The Dustborns, all while you navigate through a dystopian America.

Dustborn Key Features:

• The Power of Words - Words have real power. Use Shouts in conversations to manipulate situations and talk your way out of tricky spots. Create new words and learn to wield a linguistic arsenal against enemies... and friends.
• A Road Trip Across a Divided Continent - Journey through an alternate history of America, stopping at iconic locations. Take on unexpected assignments, meet a colorful cast of characters, recruit new crew members, and evade (or fight) your pursuers. Enjoy beautiful sights along the highway, presented in a vibrant graphic-novel-inspired art style that brings stunning 2D illustrations to life in 3D.
• A Diverse Cast of Characters - Your crew is your found family. Gather, manage, and lean on a motley bunch of misfits with unique powers, compelling stories, and clashing personalities. Branching dialogues lead to choices that shape relationships and alter how your crew perceives themselves and others.
• Gameplay as Varied as the Landscape - In each location you explore, investigate, and chat with the people you meet. Use your crew to overcome challenges, craft new Shouts and Vox, and rehearse with your band. You might find yourself throwing Molotov cocktails from a motorbike or swinging a baseball bat to take down helicopters... and more. You know, just normal everyday stuff.

Gather a crew of misfits and outsiders armed with the strength of words. United, you may make it through this road trip… unless you end up sabotaging each other first.

Dustborn™ is set to be digitally released on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, Xbox Series S/X, and Xbox One on the mentioned date. It comes with a recommended price of $29.99. Simultaneously, a physical edition, priced at $39.99, will be available, offering 2 postcards from key locations, a map of the American Republic, a 32-page prequel comic book about the crew’s life before embarking on this risky mission, and stickers of iconic elements from the game.

Plug into this thrilling adventure, and discover more by pre-order physical edition of Dustborn™

Red Thread was founded in 2012, with a mission to create games with soul for players who love stories. The studio is located in downtown Oslo, Norway. In 2014, Red Thread released the first episode of Dreamfall Chapters™, a third-person adventure game set in the twin worlds of science and magic, where your choices have real and lasting consequences. The five-part series concluded in 2016 and was followed by PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, and a ‘Final Cut’ re-release for Windows/Mac in 2017. In 2019, Red Thread released the first-person adventure Draugen™, which won Norwegian Game of the Year. The studio is currently working on Dustborn™.

About Quantic Dream

Quantic Dream is a video game creation studio founded in 1997 by David Cage, based in Paris, France, Studio and Montreal, Canada. The unique experiences offered by Heavy Rain™, Beyond: Two Souls™ and Detroit: Become Human™, have touched millions of gamers around the world and won more than 250 international awards. They have greatly contributed to the recognition of interactive storytelling in video games.  
 
Since 2019, Quantic Dream has been a publisher supporting videogame creation and independent creators offering singular and original visions. Spotlight by Quantic Dream Studio brings them its expertise, its production resources, the necessary financing, and access to international markets and their audiences. In 2022, Quantic Dream embarked on a new stage in its growth by joining NetEase Games, the games division of NetEase, to develop its creative vision and accelerate the development of flagship titles that redefine the interactive experience for gamers around the world.