Are you desirous to enter a multiplayer world of hazard, monsters, mysteries, and the colour brown? Then you definately’re the sort of one that might discover one thing to love in Dustland, a third-person multiplayer shooter from indie developer RedPad Video games that has all of these issues in what seems like a mix of Tarkov, Fallout, and early 2000s-era artwork design.
“Dustland is a reimagined tackle the survival style. A world the place expeditions, looting, and battles are simply the tip of the iceberg, hiding secrets and techniques and mysteries of a fallen area in its depths.”
The gameplay loop of Dustland isn’t going to carry many surprises, as gamers should tackle missions, attempt to survive hostile mutated threats and the occasional highly effective mud storm, and get again with some recent shiny upgrades, all whereas questioning if different gamers will likely be your companions or your killers. The sport additional guarantees some extra narrative beats that gamers are inspired to find as they discover out extra in regards to the world and even the faction they’re aligned with.
Dustland has been in early entry since final December (although it isn’t particularly flagged as such on its Steam storefront web page), whereas a roadmap guarantees new gadgets, missions, minibosses, and NPCs over the subsequent three months. That very same roadmap additionally guarantees “fixes after EA” a few instances however doesn’t particularly element when early entry will likely be completed; its official Discord additionally gives no timetable.
Total the sport is continuous to make a number of updates, although its Steam person rating presents a handful of combined opinions, with some avid gamers declaring the way it’s a bit too janky whereas others admit to seeing its potential.