Dustrunner

Life is grim on the edge of humanity. The once lush earth is now scorched by the relentless wars and endless greed of mankind. Your tribe is one of the last holdouts attempting to restore hope in a hopeless world. You have retrieved critical plans from a local barbaric faction of raiders and must make a mad dash across the dusty landscape to alert your base before it is too late. It is time for a dustrun!

Description

Dustrunner is a solo-only game that will have you attempting to race across a post-nuclear wasteland in your all-terrain cyberpunk vehicle, while fending off persistant raiders, Orwellian spybots, and earth-shaking dust worms. As the player, you will be presented with choice after choice that will set the course of the game. You will feel responsible for both your losses and your victories. Are you ready to make a dustrun?

What Makes Dustrunner Special?

(1) In Dustrunner you will get to construct your vehicle before each run from 8 different combinations, and then modify them with equipment, making each run feel fresh.

(2) Your goal is to race across the board and reach the end before you are caught by the horde of raiders. This creates a whole new layer of tension.

(3) Dustrunner uses a completely new way of handling outcomes with a deck of resolution cards. No more being shackled to the results of a die roll.

Build your Vehicle

You will begin the game by constructing a vehicle for your dustrun by combining cards to create the perfect mix. You will then equip your vehicle with modifications to produce the perfect dustrunner.

Gameplay

In Dustrunner you will be using the core mechanic of drawing two cards face-down and picking one to reveal. You may decide to resolve the first card and discard the second without looking at it, or you may pass on the first, but must then resolve the second. This mechanic is great at creating tension and choice. Enemy cards drawn as the 2nd card have more health, making passing on a raider as a first card all the bit more scary.

Winning the Game

There is only one way to win Dustrunner, and that is to reach your base before either the raiders catch you, or you lose all your health. Dustrunner is not a beat your own score game. You either reach the base and win, or you lose. However, there is a scoring system in place for folks who do like to see how well they did.

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