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Dust Walkers playtest
by Guide Stone Studios
Deploy as a DUST WALKER and protect the galaxy's most valuable resource! This top-down, action strategy game challenges you to balance constructing defenses, optimizing your build, and crushing your skillshots while boss after boss closes in on your mining operation.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Aug 27, 2025
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Guide Stone Studios
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Dust Walkers playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Dust Walkers playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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About Dust Walkers
DEPLOY
Deploy as a DUST WALKER and protect the galaxy's most valuable resource! This top-down, action strategy game challenges you to balance constructing defenses, optimizing your build, and carefully aim your skillshots while boss after boss closes in on your mining operation
DIRECT
In each run, you face a relentless assault on your operation. Deploy up to three DUST WALKERS at once, each of which can be independently controlled or grouped into a squad for ultimate firepower. Battle back the hordes, while looting and leveling each Dust Walker into unique builds.
DEVELOP
With each successful operation, you return home with Dust to spend on an expansive research tree stuffed with game-breaking upgrades for your DUST WALKERS stats, weapons, classes, and rarities. DUST WALKERS that survive an expedition grow over time and can be re-deployed all the stronger, or they can be spliced for their genes and have a stat added to the next DUST WALKER that is the right fit for your squad.
DEFEND
Research also includes new upgrades for your base like deployable walls, turrets, and other buildings to push back the horde and defend the Dust.
DECIMATE
Each expedition fuels your growth and skill. Carve a path from weakness to game-breaking strength all on your terms, through your cunning builds.
All you need is Dust.
From the game's Steam page.
