# Is Anyone Looking Forward to "From Dust"

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 5, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-looking-forward-to-from-dust/591613 "2011-08-05T17:22:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-looking-forward-to-from-dust/591613/1 "2011-08-05T17:22:01Z")

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I’ve preordered [From Dust](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dust) because the game looked interesting and I wanted to get the Team Fortress 2 mask.

Has anyone heard much about it? It was less than $20 and I’m bored so I bought it based on the trailer.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-looking-forward-to-from-dust/591613/2 "2011-08-05T17:48:21Z")

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It looks nifty but I was more interested when I thought it was a sandbox/world building style game. Gameplay videos make it clear it’s more of a puzzle solving game. I doubt it’s going to get more expensive so I figure I’ll wait and see how others feel about it in practice.

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-looking-forward-to-from-dust/591613/3 "2011-08-05T23:24:23Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> It looks nifty but I was more interested when I thought it was a sandbox/world building style game. Gameplay videos make it clear it’s more of a puzzle solving game. I doubt it’s going to get more expensive so I figure I’ll wait and see how others feel about it in practice.

Yeah, the fact that it’s not a sandbox game is a disappointment, but I read somewhere that either you can go back to each mission or there’ll be an update with added sandbox.