As Dusk Falls

 Xbox Series X
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 278 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 198 out of 278
  2. Mixed: 41 out of 278
  3. Negative: 39 out of 278

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  1. Reed618
    Aug 6, 2022
    7
    As dusk falls is pretty solid. Good acting and some nice moments throughout its story. The gameplay elements are pretty limited and there isn't much puzzle solving or anything. Mostly it's just about making choices. All in all while the story is good I didn't feel it really built towards anything too spectacular. It also left it on a cliffhanger which I didn't appreciate. Overall it kindAs dusk falls is pretty solid. Good acting and some nice moments throughout its story. The gameplay elements are pretty limited and there isn't much puzzle solving or anything. Mostly it's just about making choices. All in all while the story is good I didn't feel it really built towards anything too spectacular. It also left it on a cliffhanger which I didn't appreciate. Overall it kind of just feels like a less interesting version of life is strange.… Expand
  2. ehtaco
    Aug 13, 2022
    7
    This game genuinely impressed me. If you know what you're getting into - an entirely choice-based, narrative-based game with zero actual gameplay - this is a real treat. One of the better games of its genre. The story definitely declines as it goes on, and there are some technical problems, namely the UI being wonky to the point that sometimes QTE's don't register properly. Overall, I wasThis game genuinely impressed me. If you know what you're getting into - an entirely choice-based, narrative-based game with zero actual gameplay - this is a real treat. One of the better games of its genre. The story definitely declines as it goes on, and there are some technical problems, namely the UI being wonky to the point that sometimes QTE's don't register properly. Overall, I was able to look past most of the issues with the game, though. I'm excited to see what this studio comes up with in the future.… Expand
  3. X913
    Aug 6, 2022
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The first half of the game was great, although there were moments when the story could’ve branched more. The second half was half baked, short and boring to say the least. The ending was also infuriating, and left us with more questions than answers.… Expand
  4. Mick50008
    Jul 29, 2022
    7
    Not bad but not a great game. I would give it a 6.5 if I could. A lot of the 0 scores seem to be hating on gamepass lol, and seem to be written by the same sad person.
  5. d3uzZ
    Jul 21, 2022
    7
    Честно говоря, у меня были низкие ожидания, но это оказалось не так уж и плохо.

    Вы когда-нибудь читали книгу, которую не можете отложить, пока не дочитаете до конца? Или, может быть, оторвать взгляд от экрана, пока фильм не закончится, когда на ваши вопросы будут даны ответы или ваш разум будет в недоумении? Эта игра стала для меня такой. Эта игра представляет собой визуальную книгу    Честно говоря, у меня были низкие ожидания, но это оказалось не так уж и плохо.

    Вы когда-нибудь читали книгу, которую не можете отложить, пока не дочитаете до конца? Или, может быть, оторвать взгляд от экрана, пока фильм не закончится, когда на ваши вопросы будут даны ответы или ваш разум будет в недоумении? Эта игра стала для меня такой.

    Эта игра представляет собой визуальную книгу историй, а выбор в игре очень напоминает Detroit: Become Human, история принимает очень разные повороты из-за вашего выбора. Оно и неудивительно, ибо дизайнер раньше работал в Quantic Dream.

    Единственно, что мне не понравилось - это сюжет. Он слабый и пытается держаться на одних интригах. Игра пытается каждый раз тебя удивить приёмом - "убийца дворецкий!", но они его используют настолько часто, что никаких эмоций не вызывает от такой банальности . Смелый эксперимент и понравится далеко не каждому, но потенциал для сиквела есть.    … Expand
  6. brennenmorrow
    Jul 20, 2022
    7
    As Dusk Falls explored many interesting concepts and ideas, it ultimately fell flat in some key aspects. I enjoyed the writing and thought the dialogue/choice systems were done pretty well. I wasn't a fan of the slideshow style even though the art itself was beautiful. I would've preferred something a bit more visually interesting so it could help pull me in and keep me invested. BecauseAs Dusk Falls explored many interesting concepts and ideas, it ultimately fell flat in some key aspects. I enjoyed the writing and thought the dialogue/choice systems were done pretty well. I wasn't a fan of the slideshow style even though the art itself was beautiful. I would've preferred something a bit more visually interesting so it could help pull me in and keep me invested. Because of the slideshow style, I always felt a bit on the outside looking in, like I was reading a book. It made it hard to connect with the characters.… Expand
  7. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    7
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!! adf
  8. NeoRazyMist
    Aug 29, 2022
    6
    the game is clearly not up to the level of Detroit, but I rather liked it than not. The characters are pretty flat and not interesting, the only one I cared about was Jay, he looks alive enough to empathize with him
  9. krutoj
    Jul 20, 2022
    6
    Overall it is a cool game and the story starts out very interesting. The biggest problem in my opinion is, that the story goes on for way to long. In the second half I already stopped caring about the characters. And it didn't help, that you had passages where you played characters, that were almost irrelevant to the story. Another critique point are the bad controls on the XSX. It oftenOverall it is a cool game and the story starts out very interesting. The biggest problem in my opinion is, that the story goes on for way to long. In the second half I already stopped caring about the characters. And it didn't help, that you had passages where you played characters, that were almost irrelevant to the story. Another critique point are the bad controls on the XSX. It often happened, that the game didn't register inputs in quick time events. Especially in sequences were I had to mash a button it seemed to register only half of my presses.… Expand
  10. pivez
    Jan 9, 2023
    6
    A lot of characters are deeply characterized. On the other side the gameplay is quite basic and the second book is boring. I think this kind of games/stories could be integrated perfectly into connected TVs, as Netflix did with Bandersnatch
  11. webivanz
    Jul 23, 2022
    5
    Despite liking visual novels very much - I need to say this is the bad one. If I wasn't a big fan of this genre the score would be even lower.
    Looks like guys had a very limited budget. Most of the time you just look at the screen and waiting to make a choice or trigger a quick time event. So it could be called an interactive movie, but that's not a movie that's mostly feel like a comics    Despite liking visual novels very much - I need to say this is the bad one. If I wasn't a big fan of this genre the score would be even lower.
    Looks like guys had a very limited budget. Most of the time you just look at the screen and waiting to make a choice or trigger a quick time event. So it could be called an interactive movie, but that's not a movie that's mostly feel like a comics with a number of pictures changing one another.
    That results very low impressiveness and makes game boring.
    Another issue is controls - they were designed for a PC and controlling a mouse with sticks is the worse adaptation for a console I can imagine.
    What developers call "cooperative mode" - just sucks. Players vote for decisions and share quick time events. In that mode game is even more boring and I'd suggest that's the reason why they made the game comics-style. They sacrificed impressiveness to have so-called coop, which brings even less impressiveness.
    Guys should have invested into the story instead of inventing worse coop ever.
    This game is nowhere close nor to any of the Quantic Dream masterpieces, nor the Life is Strange series and even the Road 96 with it's very limited variability, but very nice atmosphere.    … Expand
  12. GalahadGames
    Jul 21, 2022
    3
    Great story but absolutely awful mechanics and for this the be Microsoft first exclusive for this year I'm massively disappointed
  13. ChiquiGalicia
    Jul 21, 2022
    2
    Una decepción, de lo que esperaba de este juego realmente. Si tienes gamepass pues lo tienes ahí para probarlo. Por favor Microsoft más calidad y menos cantidad en gamepass.
  14. gromjow
    Jul 25, 2022
    1
    Que jogo horroroso, parece que nem foi feito, algo mal acabado, varias imagens passando na tela. Parece um simulador de loading do GTA, ou algo feito no power point. É a coisa mais sebosa ja lançada. Deveriam ter vergonha pra lançar algo assim
  15. Broyax
    Dec 13, 2022
    1
    Un bon point pour le doublage français de grande qualité… mais franchement, c’est donner de la confiture à un cochon de jeu de merde ! et tant que j’y suis, un autre bon point pour la possibilité de gommer ou de rendre moins chiants ces saloperies de QTE de merde (pléonasme)…

    Mais, nous n’irons pas jusqu’à deux en ce qui concerne la note finale, car cette espèce de roman-photo laid    Un bon point pour le doublage français de grande qualité… mais franchement, c’est donner de la confiture à un cochon de jeu de merde ! et tant que j’y suis, un autre bon point pour la possibilité de gommer ou de rendre moins chiants ces saloperies de QTE de merde (pléonasme)…

    Mais, nous n’irons pas jusqu’à deux en ce qui concerne la note finale, car cette espèce de roman-photo laid comme un pou, à la technique dégueulasse (50 Go qu’elle fait cette bouse sur la version Series X !) est vraiment déagréable à jouer… non, que dis-je, on ne joue pas là-dedans, on… regarde et on choisit un truc de temps en temps !… entre deux QTE moisis.

    Donc, même comme vague film interactif, ça ne fonctionne pas ou si mal qu’on s’interroge sans cesse sur ce qu’on est en train de regarder : comment ça peut être aussi con, aussi grotesque ? c’est quoi ces rebondissements à deux balles, c’est quoi ces multiples psychodrames… à deux balles ? ça fait pitié, sérieusement. Qui a écrit une merde pareille… volontiers wokiste ici et là , de surcroît ? ils ont dû s’y mettre à plusieurs… c’était un con-cours !

    D’ailleurs, même les jeux, les non-jeux pardon de chez Quantic Dream sont au moins agréables à regarder et bien plus interactifs que ce truc tout pourri « as dusk falls » qu’on ne finit même pas, car au bout de deux ou trois heures, on n’en peut déjà plus ! heureusement que cette daube est tombée dans le daube pass, sinon, ça ferait mal au cul !    … Expand
  16. Nobodyplay
    Jul 21, 2022
    1
    Bastante malo la verdad, muchas cinematicas y como las van poniendo se me hace una tanto chafa
  17. Riven23
    Jul 21, 2022
    1
    No me ha gustado nada, entiendo que esta enfocado en la historia pero no lo han conseguido bien
  18. pamrates
    Feb 12, 2023
    1
    This game starts off promising with giving you hard decisions, good characters and an interesting storyline, but as you progress, you find yourself asking where the game is going. Spoiler alert, it goes nowhere! This game is an absolute waste of time. The endings are typical. It has 6 chapters, but feels like it should have 20. The ending of the game is a cliffhanger. I finished the gameThis game starts off promising with giving you hard decisions, good characters and an interesting storyline, but as you progress, you find yourself asking where the game is going. Spoiler alert, it goes nowhere! This game is an absolute waste of time. The endings are typical. It has 6 chapters, but feels like it should have 20. The ending of the game is a cliffhanger. I finished the game feeling so incomplete and dumbfounded that I spent time playing it. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME.… Expand
  19. OnlyOneHere
    Jul 20, 2022
    0
    This game is a huge steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers are charging $30 for a slide show. There is literally no animations for the characters. Like why did they even bother adding the very few animations this "game" has? If these developers are going to be extremely cheap and lazy to make an actual game, movie or even a walking simulator, then they might as well go all theThis game is a huge steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers are charging $30 for a slide show. There is literally no animations for the characters. Like why did they even bother adding the very few animations this "game" has? If these developers are going to be extremely cheap and lazy to make an actual game, movie or even a walking simulator, then they might as well go all the way. They're literally not impressing anyone with those tiny amount of animations. The story is terrible. It's already bad enough that this multi-trillion dollar company makes a bunch of indie quality games. Now they're selling $30 Microsoft PowerPoint presentations? Not even EA would be that greedy and lazy, and they have a fraction of the money Microsoft has.

    Apparently this game has multiplayer, but why would I care about multiplayer in a game that literally has no gameplay to began with? Even walking simulators like Gone Home has more gameplay than this so-called video game, not to mention that the Gone Home developers charged $10 less than this trash. It's very embarrassing and pathetic that this garbage was published by a division owned by a multi-trillion dollar company. Meanwhile, companies with even less money can give me a superior gaming experience at the same price or cheaper. My Xbox game pass benefits will end in a few days, and I sure won't be missing that horrible service. I will not subscribe until they give me a top notch AAA quality game not named Forza. I don't recommend this poor excuse of a game at all.    … Expand
  20. DuMalakoi
    Jul 25, 2022
    0
    This game is literally a power point simulator, Microsoft should be ashamed for releasing something like this, its pathetic
  21. Danilencol
    Jul 27, 2022
    0
    PowerPoint, PowerPoint, POWERPOINT!!!!! - Steve Carell. Over fifty gigs in PowerPoint, whether narrative watched a movie
  22. mArk0
    Jul 23, 2022
    0
    I couldn’t play this for more than 15 mins. The PPT slideshow presentation gave me a crazy headache. And I don’t know who green lit the idea “hey, let’s make a video game that has an art style and gimmick that makes looks like it runs at 4 FPS”
  23. Danielibiapina
    Jul 23, 2022
    0
    Is this a PowerPoint game? This game is monotonous,poor quality,another gamepass trash
  24. mabritec
    Jul 21, 2022
    0
    gracias a xbox ahora puedo dormir con esta historia tan aburrida, no lo recomiendo, por 1$ de game pass se puede jugar pero no pagando, semejante porqueria.
  25. Mustafa973
    Jul 20, 2022
    0
    Microsoft should stop giving us garbage games like this
    The story is horrible and the way events are told is boring
    This game even run with 1fps per second, this game is totally a joke
  26. Paled
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    It's a ridiculous game! It's a power point presentation and nothing more.
    This cannot be called a game.
  27. Soyefra
    Jul 26, 2022
    0
    Un juego mediocre, prefiero crear mi propio powerpoint que volver a jugar a esto
  28. dLifeHD
    Aug 3, 2022
    0
    One of the best narrative driven games I've played. Not only is the art style really cool but the story is super captivating and will have going back to it and trying to see what happens if you make one decision over the other. There are so many possibilities and so many meaningful choices to make that it really does keep the game fresh. This one is a must play for narrative game fans.
  29. tinkoshonomuro
    Mar 26, 2023
    0
    This is one of the worst things i've seen in my life. A multibillionaire company should be ashamed to release a pathetic game like this.
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77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 51 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 74
  3. Negative: 2 out of 74
  1. Games.cz
    Aug 23, 2022
    60
    Will you enjoy this story-based game? That, quite unsurprisingly, depends on whether you’re going to like the story. The plot twists aren’t great but if you’re interested in dark topics like PTSD, you could leave satisfied.
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  2. Edge Magazine
    Aug 11, 2022
    60
    What a shame that a story whose opening promises to wade into deeper waters should resort to paddling in the shadows. [Issue#375, p.118]
  3. BaziCenter
    Aug 7, 2022
    70
    Caroline Marshall’s first independent project may not have panned out exactly as planned, but it shows enough potential in its story telling to convince some to give it a try, and if you already own a Game Pass subscription then you are just investing your time, which will probably worth it.
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