Dustrunner
2023Jason Glover
- Videos
- 20
- Creators
- 12
Mainly playthroughs and reviews. Dustrunner is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 7 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 players
20 - 40 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
From BoardGameGeek
Dustrunner is a solo-only game that will have you attempting to race across a post-nuclear wasteland in your all-terrain cyberpunk vehicle, while fending off persistent raiders, Orwellian spybots, and earth-shaking dust worms. As the player, you will be presented with choice after choice that will set the course of the game. You will feel responsible for both your losses and your victories. Are you ready to make a dustrun? You will begin the game by constructing a vehicle for your dustrun by combining cards to create the perfect mix. You will then equip your vehicle with modifications to produce the perfect dustrunner. In Dustrunner you will be using the core mechanic of drawing two cards face-down and picking one to reveal. You may decide to resolve the first card and discard the second without looking at it, or you may pass on the first, but must then resolve the second. This mechanic is great at creating tension and choice. Enemy cards drawn as the 2nd card have more health, making passing on a raider as a first card all the bit more scary. There is only one way to win Dustrunner, and that is to reach your base before either the raiders catch you, or you lose all your health. Dustrunner is not a beat your own score game. You either reach the base and win, or you lose. However, there is a scoring system in place for folks who do like to see how well they did. -description from the publisher
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Which Dustrunner video should I watch?
Dustrunner has 20 videos from 12 creators: 5 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 7 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2023 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Tutorial & Solo Playthrough of DustRunner - Solo Board Game" by Tabletop For One, which runs 25 min. For a quicker teach, "Dustrunner 2-Raider Variant - "Raiders with a Lost Worm"" by Valzalel runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Dust Runner ☠ | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!) 🎉" by Tabletop Tokki. 5 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "DustRunner Playthrough: Hardcore Mode!" by Game Knight, one of 7 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Iron Helm, Tin Helm, Desolate and Stew, also by Jason Glover.
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About Dustrunner
From BoardGameGeek:
Dustrunner is a solo-only game that will have you attempting to race across a post-nuclear wasteland in your all-terrain cyberpunk vehicle, while fending off persistent raiders, Orwellian spybots, and earth-shaking dust worms. As the player, you will be presented with choice after choice that will set the course of the game. You will feel responsible for both your losses and your victories. Are you ready to make a dustrun? You will begin the game by constructing a vehicle for your dustrun by combining cards to create the perfect mix. You will then equip your vehicle with modifications to produce the perfect dustrunner. In Dustrunner you will be using the core mechanic of drawing two cards face-down and picking one to reveal. You may decide to resolve the first card and discard the second without looking at it, or you may pass on the first, but must then resolve the second. This mechanic is great at creating tension and choice. Enemy cards drawn as the 2nd card have more health, making passing on a raider as a first card all the bit more scary. There is only one way to win Dustrunner, and that is to reach your base before either the raiders catch you, or you lose all your health. Dustrunner is not a beat your own score game. You either reach the base and win, or you lose. However, there is a scoring system in place for folks who do like to see how well they did. -description from the publisher
Designer
Jason Glover
Artist
Jason Glover
Publisher
Grey Gnome Games
Categories
Mechanics