From Dust PC Review

From Dust is a new game from Ubisoft. Lately they are mostly known from incredibly annoying DRM that requires a permanent link, making pirating their programs much more attractive for paying customers.

Not only do they make me activate my game and create an account (which should be trivially easy for them using Steam's API, but they wouldn't get my e-mail this way), they also patch the game I just downloaded. No progress bar, just a message and an animated icon. Nice.

When it finally runs, all I get is a Connection Lost message:

Had I realized it was an Ubisoft game, I probably wouldn't have bought it. And they also managed to post in their forum that it would not require you to be online - see this article for comments on this, on the supposedly bad port, and on how to get a refund from Steam.

It started working. Another "perk"  from Ubisoft DRM is the huge amount of time it takes to save a game after you exit (which of course is completely unnecessary and pure DRM related).

The game does look nice, and the start of the gameplay is interesting - you mostly move land to create land bridges and redirect water streams. But it gets old fast.

Really not recommended - 2/5 Stars

Comments

Dubya said…
Enjoyed this game for an hour or 2, then it got boring.
I expected A LOT MORE from this game, having been in development so long. Instead it feels like a "concept" not a finished game.
August 19, 2011 at 3:51:00 PM GMT-3
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