In a turning of rather unusual events, we had access to a game before launching Kickstarter. What is even more unusual is that it is a game of cards! DustBiters arrives thanks to Jan Willem Nijman, Terri Vellmann, Robbie Fraser and Iam8bit. The Kickstarter is launched today, while the full exit is scheduled for November 2021. It took about 20 minutes to understand the potential at work here. Dustbiters is rad like hell.
Speaking of unusual, it is a set of two-player cards. Just you and a single opponent trying to distance a murderous dust storm. The games can go very fast. Most of them last 15 minutes or less! The team frases with a set of simple rules and a lean and steep deck size. There are only 21 cards, and more than half of them are counted even before the game begins. In addition to this, at least one card is discarded at each turn. The gameplay is for the least frenetic.
You and your opponent represent the two halves of a car convoy swallowed by a dust storm. Whoever is at the bottom is destroyed at the end of each round. If your four cars are destroyed, you have lost! Each car has a passive or active power, most of which focus on the destruction of other cars. Everything seems pretty simple at first, but the true depth of the game is pretty good. The matches can take place in one hundred different ways. Build, do you destroy or drive to victory? Or do you use a strange combination of the three?
Beyond the style of live and hard game, art is excellent. Each of the cars is rendered in exquisite details. More than that, each car offers indices on the type of world in which this little brutal game takes place. It is a world where teleportation and necromancy operate side by side. A world of cow hunters with spikes, flame launcher, grapples and real horses. It is a world where science looks like magic, with a touch of climate apocalypse added for more flavor. All this is found in the art, as well as in the gameplay.
If all this seems familiar to you, this should be the case! Robbie Fraser, Jan Willem Nijman and Terri Vellmann develop DustBiters. Robbie Fraser is Free Lives, the studio that realizes Terra Nil. They also took out Broforce, Gorn and Genital Justing. Nijman and Vellmann are two of the people who have developed Disc Room. The low vibration of Devolver Digital is not a coincidence. If you want to participate in this crazy action, the Kickstarter is online now! DustBitters should go out in November 2021. You can also visit the official website to register on the game mailing list here.
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