All is Dust is a first-person horror game set in the 1930's. Due to a dust storm, your crops are failing and in turn your 7 year old daughter, Patricia, is starving; nothing pains you more than to see this happening before your very eyes. Patricia goes missing, and you set out in search of clues around the farm that relate to her disappearance.

First of all, this game runs on the Unity Personal Edition engine, so automatically the optimization is terrible. Running on an i7 6700k and GTX 1080 configuration, I saw around 70-122 FPS. Good, right? You would think so, but somehow the title still managed to stutter uncontrollably like it was running at 15-30FPS. There are also awful texture flickers, and you can even get stuck on the hanging tree leaves; somehow I walked up them like ladders multiple times and got stuck at the top.

There's only one baddie model, and usually only one AI that follows you around while you're touring the farm. It's easy to hear him coming up on you by the scraping sounds that he makes across the ground, but it's even easier to avoid him completely. If you hear him, or get hit by him, turn in his direction and walk backwards. The enemy acts like Boo from Super Mario Bros, as in he won't move if you're actually looking at him. Occasionally there are two of these guys, but if you touch one with your lantern he'll disappear.

While there's not really a lot of scare factor in All is Dust, nor good performance for that matter, the title does well with atmosphere. Out of the hundreds of horror games that I've played in my life, I can't recall a "serious" horror title set in a corn field (Death Tractor doesn't count). The hand drawn cutscenes (which are usually just one drawing) on weathered paper are a nicely added touch, which help to bring out the time period that the game is set in. The music, sound effects, and voice acting are all pretty decent to boot for a free title.

Even though All is Dust took the basic premise of Slenderman (collecting notes and pages), and has obligatory Unity Personal Edition performance issues, it's not a bad way to spend 20-30 minutes. If you can forgive bad framerates, texture flickers and pops, and laughable enemy AI, the ambiance of the farm can really draw you in. It's just a game that screams "fall". However, I would avoid trying it out in VR due to bad performance.

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All is Dust is a first-person horror game set in the 1930's. Due to a dust storm, your crops are failing and in turn your 7 year old daughter, Patricia, is starving; nothing pains you more than to see this happening before your very eyes. Patricia goes missing, and you set out in search of clues around the farm that relate to her disappearance. First of all, this game runs on the Unity Personal Edition engine, so automatically the optimization is terrible. Running on an i7 6700k and GTX 1080 configuration, I saw around 70-122 FPS. Good, right? You would think so, but somehow the title still managed to stutter uncontrollably like it was running at 15-30FPS. There are also awful texture flickers, and you can even get stuck on the hanging tree leaves; somehow I walked up them like ladders multiple times and got stuck at the top. There's only one baddie model, and usually only one AI that follows you around while you're touring the farm. It's easy to hear him coming up on you by the scraping sounds that he makes across the ground, but it's even easier to avoid him completely. If you hear him, or get hit by him, turn in his direction and walk backwards. The enemy acts like Boo from Super Mario Bros, as in he won't move if you're actually looking at him. Occasionally there are two of these guys, but if you touch one with your lantern he'll disappear. While there's not really a lot of scare factor in All is Dust, nor good performance for that matter, the title does well with atmosphere. Out of the hundreds of horror games that I've played in my life, I can't recall a "serious" horror title set in a corn field (Death Tractor doesn't count). The hand drawn cutscenes (which are usually just one drawing) on weathered paper are a nicely added touch, which help to bring out the time period that the game is set in. The music, sound effects, and voice acting are all pretty decent to boot for a free title. Even though All is Dust took the basic premise of Slenderman (collecting notes and pages), and has obligatory Unity Personal Edition performance issues, it's not a bad way to spend 20-30 minutes. If you can forgive bad framerates, texture flickers and pops, and laughable enemy AI, the ambiance of the farm can really draw you in. It's just a game that screams "fall". However, I would avoid trying it out in VR due to bad performance. [h1]Rating: [b]2.0/5.0[/b] - It's not awful, but it's not great.[/h1] The Horror Network [url=http://steamproxy.net/steamstore/curator/28221963/]Curator[/url] | [url=http://steamproxy.net/groups/thehorrornetwork]Group[/url] Click for Gore