From Dust

This is the first God-game I've played. I've always dreamt of playing Black & White games, but was never able to as its never been ported or brought to any PC platform which made the game a lost relic. The mechanics are unlike anything I've seen and its interesting this kind of tech hasn't been used in other games since (that I know of). The way you terraform the landscape and how it changes with even the smallest alteration makes it very realistic. It's really addictive, and again, the mechanics have me in awe.

If Ubisoft still made games like this, they wouldn't have the problems they're having right now.

need #2!

not one to give reviews but this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ atrocious. leave it to ubisoft to mangle a possible nostalgic thing

I played From Dust back on the 360 and picked it up again just now because I’m pretty sure I never finished it. What a refreshingly original game, a little like lemmings with physics. I wish more modern games let me play more with physics rather than focus on fidelity. It’s quite the thing to build a mountain and watch the displaced water swamp a village. Or see a volcano flow AND a tsunami get pushed around a village by an invisible force field. The environmental puzzles are fairly straightforward and allow for a bit of experimentation, it’s really not challenging until the second to last level. But rewarding nonetheless. But really, this is mostly about the spectacle of moving around earth and water and seeing how your little villagers respond. There’s a bit of jank with the AI pathfinding (not surprising when you can warp the land at will) and the physics, but that’s part of the fun. Well worth (re)visiting. I wish more games experimented with ideas like this one.

buy on sale, you can do a lot worse with £2