From Dust

I finally managed to get my hands on this game after 16 yrs! I still think that the game mechanics are amazing and that just 10 levels is so much wasted potential. Now for the bad news (and the reasons I do not recommend this game). First of all, €10 for just 10 levels of mostly the same thing is not worth it at all, especially after 16 years. After this, pushing an update for just enforcing an external launcher is a scam in of itsalf, but having to go leaps and bounds JUST for playing the game offline (and the fact that the game will auto-update with a 250 MB file after replacing the installer with an older version which weighs only 10 MB and allows offline play) is really too much. I got this game for €2,50 and even that I think is a bit too overpriced for the user experience it gives. Edit: you can launch the game without installing the launcher by simply rejecting the installation and the game will launch without a hitch, though you'll have to do it each time you launch the game. Further proving that the ubi launcher is a useless add-on on top of the game itself.

I have become comfortable with not owning Ubisoft games.

What a unique game this is - and I haven't been able to play it since 2012~ - until now! thanks gaben, Proton11beta fixed it. For anyone looking at From Dust and was diswayed by the negative reviews regarding the Ubislop™ connect launcher, especially if you are on Linux, give it a shot > launch, install ubislop™ launcher > login to the launcher > close the launcher from tray > wait and steam will re-launch the launcher now that you are logged in

For those who have had issues, I recently installed this game. It launched with no problems after installing the latest version of Ubisoft's launcher that auto-installs with game launch.

Ubisoft account wont let me log in anymore and when I try to reset my password, i just get an "error" message with no explanation. Obviously customer support has been of no support whatsoever because Ubisoft and Ive exhausted every other option, just being led in a circle. Because of this, I cant play ANY Ubisoft game, including any of the ones Ive had for a long time. So no, I would not recommend this or any Ubisoft game ever, and F*CK UBISOFT, thoroughly.

I have like 6 100% completions off steam of this game. It's honestly not even that crazy of a game I just have a fixation on water lol The way the water physics work has always mystified me, especially getting it to work on an xbox 360, it's always been one of those dreams of mine to make a little prototype or something to recreate it and mess around with it

♥♥♥♥ 3rd party launchers, to this day i have not actually been able to play this game.

masterpice

Honestly, no other game I've played since Black and White has made me viscerally feel more like a God- which is what the game intends for the player to be. Small actions can have massive consequences, and finding out how to solve the puzzle each map represents is part of the challenge and the fun! If you get it wrong, the people whom you are God to suffer- and unlike many other varieties of God-Game I've tried, they call out to YOU for help with the mess you caused, either accidentally or on purpose, which makes it feel a little more authentic to me. You're not the first God, and you won't be the last either, but you're here now, and these people called out to you across the vast dark. They need you. There is information left by your predecessors, by their ancestors, and it feels extremely rewarding figuring out how to get that knowledge and improve the lives of your villagers.

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.