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 beyond.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a action, platformer and metroidvania game developed by Humble Hearts LLC and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on May 24th 2013 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese and German.

It has received 18,457 reviews of which 17,593 were positive and 864 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Dust: An Elysian Tail into these genres:

Action Platformer Metroidvania Indie RPG Adventure 2D Singleplayer Fantasy Great Soundtrack Beat 'em up Hack and Slash Exploration Story Rich Controller Beautiful Side Scroller Anime Action RPG Atmospheric

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible video card with shader model 3.0 support
Direct X®: 10, Windows Media Player
Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
Input: Keyboard

MacOS

OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8, 32/64-bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
Input: Keyboard

Linux

OS: glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit (S3TC NOT required)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB HD space
Input: Keyboard

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

It is hard to put into words the impact this game has left. This game is the ultimate answer to the "are video games art?" question. Every single thing about this game is perfection in a game. The story is one of the most engaging and interesting I have ever come across. I genuinely loved every single second of it from start to finish. Certain moments will hit you like a shotgun slug to the chest and hit the feels button hard. Simply impeccable. The Gameplay. Simply put, its the greatest gameplay I have ever seen in my entire life. Everything works so well. It is fluid without fail, smooth as butter. In some games, the gameplay will sometimes lose you or cause you to make a mistake and die. Here, however, I have never once had it do something like that. It is an outstanding achievement in how to make a proper combat system. The voice acting here is world-class work from every single VA. The direction and performances on display to me are the gold standard when it comes to voice acting in any creative medium, not just video games. Many of these VA's have gone on to great success in the industry and for good reason. D-Mac and the crew shine like the sun here. The art direction. I already said this is the ultimate answer to the "are video games art?" question, but it bears repeating. The art and level design is top notch. Promoting exploration and having no areas where it feels tedious. Every screen, which looks like a masterpiece, gets you hyped up for either a fight or the amazing exploration that comes. It really adds to the immersion of the game. Which leads me to- The Music. One of the best video game soundtracks of All-time. Chris and Dan of HyperDuck hit every level of excellence possible in a soundtrack. Somber, spooky, awe-inspiring, hype, and happy. Every emotion is on full display here and they are placed perfectly throughout the game. Pure auditory bliss. (I'm a musician myself as well LOL) To sum it up, This is the Best Video Game Ever Made. I say this with no hyperbole whatsoever. This is what gaming should be. Gold standard doesn't begin to sum it up. This is the DIAMOND standard for gaming. Next to the names Miyamoto, Kojima, and Meier. Dean Dodrill's name will stand tall among them. Thank you, Dean for giving us this Holy Grail of gaming. TL;DR. Best Game of All-Time. Get it. You will love every second of it!

June 2024

i had this game when it released many years ago. got it free on xbox live. such a good game i was happy to pay 2nd time around to have it again on pc. its just one those games that is satisfying and fun to play, plus it has everything a good game should have except one thing.. a sequel.. but seriously it has it all. good story nice big colourful sprites good level design pretty graphics fast pace game play action combat etc etc. still worth playing in 2024.

April 2024

Action RPG Sidescroller platformer that boasts fluid combat, gripping story and characters, nice music, good voice actors and a good gear system for upgrades and armor. It's initial starting point is a little slow and the combat stagnates a little but it's very short lived and you'll find the combat smooth itself out

Feb. 2024

This game plays a lot like Greak Memories of Azur. So if you enjoyed that game, I think you'll enjoy this one too. There are plenty of similarities in story and gameplay. Both games have an evil 😈 force that has beaten the good citizens of some medievally-name Country to submission and certain annihilation as their central antagonist. Minions lurk in the surrounding woodlands, shores, caves and villages, limiting travel and essentially trapping the citizens in their local hideouts. In both games a sword-wielding protagonist (who had been prophesied to defeat said evil despite having no full knowledge or recollection as to what's going on and what has brought the evil about) appears mysteriously from the forest. Given the doomed situation, our hero ends up running all of the errands for the townsfolk (which can be surprisingly trivial given their dire situation), all the while vanquishing minions and bosses while piecing together what's really going on. Both hero's travel with sidekicks with different abilities who assists them in all their tasks. The main difference between the two games is 1. In Dust you play as a furry instead of an elf 2. The gameplay in Dust is significantly easier and the game shorter than in Greak 3. In Dust you cannot swap out sidekick and hero 4. Dust has fewer puzzles 5. Dust searches for his true identity while Greak searches for his lost siblings and 6. This game doesn't give off Zelda vibes. The writing in Dust is elevated by Fidget (your projectile wielding sidekick) who provides some sass, comic relief and wreckage of the 4th wall with references to saving progress, mashing buttons, and things you shouldn't be able to put in an inventory. I found her humerous. Like any true 2D Metroidvanian, both games feature skill and weapon acquisition over time with some areas being inaccessible until certain skills are acquired, save points, and random merchants seeking resources throughout each level. There's also plenty of platforming that requires more precision as you advance. Overall, Dust an Elysian Tail is quite similar to Greak: Memories of Azur. Uniquely, it's a cute, simplistic Metroidvania that is more relaxing than challenging... ideal for casual gamers. The writing is mildly humorous albeit a little tedious at times. For parents, the game does feature mild violence, mild blood and non-greusome depictions of dead furry villagers after a battle. The game can reportedly be beaten in well under 20 hours. And it is fairly priced without discount. So, I give it an 8/10.

Jan. 2024

Got this game years ago on Games with Gold on Xbox 360. It's fun but a very easy metroidvania. 100% in less than 15 hours on Hard. Worth the $3 on sale if you like the genre.

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-75% 13.99€ 3.49€

9.3

17,593

864

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Developer

Humble Hearts LLC

Publisher

Xbox Game Studios

Release 24 May 2013

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