Draw odds and deck-building strategies collide with action combat, resulting in battles in which both wits and reflexes matter.įor solo players, it has a 15+ hour campaign that takes you through a story of loss, isolation, and belief, set in a world ravaged by a strange etheric dust. ![]() While the rest of the gaming world has caught up with the idea of using cards and deck building in different genres, it remains a unique proposition in Phantom Dust – an action-combat game for up to four combatants set in highly destructible arenas in which you choose from over 300 skills to build your arsenal of attacks, defenses, and special abilities. It is wholly unique, and you will not find another game like it. It’s easy to say a game is unique, and that terminology is thrown about quite a bit these days, but in the case of Phantom Dust, it was and still is true. Why? What was so special about this game that it garnered such a following? Why do the fans that played the original remain as dedicated and passionate about it today as they did years ago? Just what was so special about it? ![]() It became a cult classic, and for over a decade, fans have found ways to continue to play the game on modified original Xbox’s, or via special LAN tunneling programs on the Xbox 360’s back-compatible version. through another publisher, it did so as a limited release to a passionate audience – an audience that was still playing it online the day we turned off the original Xbox multiplayer servers. While Phantom Dust did get released in the U.S. A card game plus an action game with quirky Japanese style and a post-apocalyptic setting? Who’d ever heard of such a thing? We decided at the time to not release it in the United States, although it was already localized in English. ![]() Phantom Dust is such a unique game, that when it was released for the original Xbox in 2004 in Japan, it was hard to classify. You can download Phantom Dust today on Windows 10 PC and the Xbox One family of devices (via Xbox Play Anywhere) at no cost. We’ve heard the feedback and passion from fans about this Xbox classic, and for this re-release on modern devices, we’ve decided to give it away for free. At Team Xbox we put gamers at the center of everything we do and we are driven to build the best platform on which to create and play games.
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