- Next Fest Extended Demo is Out NOW! 🔥 - 16 October 2026
Hello survivors!We teased a new demo version in our previous updates and we're happy to say the wait is over!The Road of Dust and Sorrow Extended Demo is out NOW! 📣To make things even better, we are officially participating in Steam Next Fest with this brand new demo build! Newcomers and returning survivors will both find plenty of fresh ground to explore. ;)We can hear you ask, what's the difference between the first and new demo version? Well...This demo is twice as long as the first one, with way more story!!Quality of life and mechanics adjustmentsUI layout, combat and usability adjustmentsMore intuitive control bindsThis is actually the biggest demo we have ever released! Why so big, you may ask? It's really down to making sure players get a full understanding of what the game is before deciding to play the full game. We want players to buy with confidence, which is why we're lett…
- The Road of Dust and Sorrow отправит мать и дочь в кошмарный мир - хоррор выйдет 3 декабря - 9 October 2026
Издатель Silver Lining Interactive и студия Painted Black Games объявили дату выхода The Road of Dust and Sorrow — сюжетного survival horror с пиксельной графикой в духе классических игр 1990-х. Релиз состоится 3 декабря на PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch и Switch 2. Действие разворачивается в мире, где эксперимент с лекарством против голода привёл к катастрофе. Люди превратились в агрессивных существ, прозванных Дастерами, а цивилизация погрузилась в хаос. В центре истории окажутся Кэтрин и её дочь Ава, которые пытаются найти безопасное убежище. Однако их путь пересекается с таинственной сектой Проповедника, рассматривающей людей как ресурс для собственных целей. Разработчики делают ставку на атмосферу упадка и постоянную угрозу. Игрокам предстоит исследовать заброшенные улицы, обыскивать здания, решать головоломки и сражаться с монстрами. При этом важную роль сыгра…
- The Road of Dust and Sorrow Launches December 3, 2026! - 8 October 2026
Survivors, big news incoming!We are so happy to announce that our horror pixel-art indie game The Road of Dust and Sorrow will officially launch on 3rd of December this year!We are officially just two months away from launch day!Words cannot describe how excited we are... but a brand-new trailer might! Check out our story trailer, which just premiered during the Convergence Games Showcase:October has barely started and it’s already been such a busy month already! The Road of Dust and Sorrow was featured yesterday in the Harvest of Terror: A Horror Game Award Halloween Showcase and today in the Convergence Games Showcase. Next up, we’ll also be appearing in the Cozy After Dark Showcase on October 12th. But that's not alll! 👀Thank you for 150,000 wishlists!Hitting such an incredible milestone alongside our Release Date Announcement is a dream come true. Thank you all so much for your kin…
- Play our demo until the end of September! - 25 September 2026
Hello all survivors! We hope you've been holding up well out there! We've been hard at work behind the scenes preparing something very important for you, so definitely keep an eye out over the next couple of weeks! ;)First, though, let's address today's headline. As you've seen in the title, you will be able to play The Road of Dust and Sorrow demo until the 30th of September. Thank you so much to everyone who has played the demo so far! You've left so many comments and suggestions on how to make our game an even better experience. We've been taking notes and we are so grateful for all your feedback!Why are we taking down the demo? Well... we are working on an improved demo with even more content! 🥳You'll have time to experience the current version once more (or for the first time!) until the end of September while we make space for the upgrade. While we can't confirm the exact date fo…
- Playtest Call! - 11 September 2026
UPDATEThank you all for such an amazing response to the call - we are happy to share that the spots have now been filled. But don't fret - we have exciting news coming soon ^^ Hello survivors! We're glad to say we are hard at work on some very exciting things coming! As we look forward to the launch (more details coming soon!), we want to invite you to take part in our limited playtest. We’re selecting 10 to 15 playtesters to jump in early and tell us all your feedback! This playtest involves the full game build as of right now.Playtest Key Details Playtest Dates: September 18th – September 25th 2026 Build Access: Full current build (beyond just the demo) Feedback: Selected testers will be required to fill out a short feedback form sharing their thoughts on The Road Of Dust And Sorrow full gameAs a massive thank you for your time and insight, you get to keep the full game key!Parts of t…
- Community Deep Dive #4 Why 'Dusters'? - 8 September 2026
Hello survivors!Thank you so much to everyone who played The Road of Dust and Sorrow at gamescom last month! You guys are absolutely amazing. We spoke to so many of you, and all the love has been honestly overwhelming. To anyone who visited our booth, played our demo, grabbed some pins or chatted with our team: THANK YOU!Throughout the week in Cologne, some people were asking us why our 'zombies' are called Dusters. So, we decided to share a few more details about the enemies you're going to face!Dusters Aren't ZombiesThe enemies in The Road of Dust and Sorrow are not your standard undead zombies. The Dusters are the tragic, horrifying victims of corporate greed and a biological disaster.Unlike classic flesh-eating zombies, Dusters fixate solely on genetically engineered GEEN crop berry patches and the highly addictive compound known as "fairy dust." They are the hollowed-out thralls of…
- 1 Year Update | Ukrainian Game Festival 2026 - 17 August 2026
Hello everyone! We officially announced our game and sent our Steam page out into the world on August 14, 2025, during the Ukrainian Games Festival 2025. Now, we’re celebrating our one year anniversary at the Ukrainian Games Festival 2026! 🎂 One year in a nutshell:What have we been up to this past year? Well, it's a long story but here are some of the biggest highlights:The Road of Dust and Sorrow was wishlisted by over 135,000 people!Our demo was played by over 20,000 people (without Steam Next Fest!)We've partnered with Silver Lining Interactive to publish our game on PC & all major consoles!We're going to gamescom 2026 with a playable demo (You can find us at the Indie Arena Booth!)We've participated in countless events & festivals like Future Games Show or Tiny Teams!Thank you so much for your amazing support throughout the year. We couldn't have achieved so much without you, and a…
- Brazilian Portuguese Language Support Confirmed! - 11 August 2026
Hello survivors!We have some exciting news for our friends in Brazil! We’ve seen all your videos, comments and posts and we are excited to announce that The Road of Dust and Sorrow will be available in Brazilian Portuguese on launch! ;) We are so thankful for our community, we couldn't have done this without all the love and support you've shown us. ❤️We also wanted to make sure you received this message in your native language, so a huge thank you to our volunteer Samuel (Jhndboy) for taking the time to translate this announcement.Thank you again for all your support and see you in the next update!
- 125 000 WISHLISTS!! 🐈 - 30 July 2026
Hello survivors!We honestly can't believe we're writing this, but thank you so much for 125,000 wishlists! 🙀When we first started this project, we couldn't even dream of reaching such a huge milestone like this. Reading through all your comments and kind words has been genuinely incredible and your feedback has been instrumental in shaping the game. We have so much more to show you soon! Be sure to follow us here on Steam and on Twitter (X) so you don't miss any updates.Attending Gamescom next month? Don't forget to stop by our booth and say hi, we’d love to meet you!😄Thank you so much and see you soon!
- The Road of Dust and Sorrow is coming to Gamescom! - 14 July 2026
Hello everyone!We've been so incredibly excited these past couple of months, but the secret is finally out... we're officially heading to Gamescom! 🤯 INDIE ARENA BOOTH 2026 | August 26th – 30th | Cologne, GermanyCatch us at the Indie Arena Booth at our publisher Silver Lining Interactive's stand! You will be able to play our demo, chat with one of our devs and we'll have an exclusive collector's pin for you to grab as well!We will be posting our exact location on Twitter (X) on the day of the event, so don't forget to check it!Thank you for all your support, and see you in August (IRL if you're attending)! 🩶
- Community Deep Dive #3 July Update - 9 July 2026
Hello everyone! We hope everyone is enjoying (or surviving) the very sunny July! We've been hard at work polishing and preparing a really exciting surprise for you, but you will have to find out for yourself what it is really soon! ;) Development UpdatesWe've worked on a lot of your feedback and reported bugs in the past month. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them with us, it has been incredibly invaluable! We can now see more clearly which areas require more attention and which do not. Now, it's all about putting our efforts exactly where they are most needed.One issue that's been reported to us in the past is the brightness in the game. We are now working on a brighter iteration without losing the "depth" we created already.Since the last development update, we have also been working on final game scenes, which you can see a small sneak peek below! Oh, what's wrong Kath…
- Community Deep Dive #2 Who are Katherine and Ava? - 11 June 2026
Welcome everyone! 🩶Hello to everyone who has been with us for a while and a huge welcome to all the people who just discovered the game!It’s been a VERY busy month for the team, but it was all worth it to officially release our brand new trailer during the Future Games Show: It's been incredibly overwhelming (in the best way possible 😉) to see all the excitement for The Road of Dust and Sorrow in the past couple months.You've already met our brave protagonists in the demo (which is temporarily back right now!) and in both of our trailers. But today, we want to give you a more in-depth look at this mother-daughter duo:Katherine is a woman in her mid-30s with a rough, hardened demeanour, forged by the relentless brutality of this post-apocalyptic hell. Before the collapse, she was a country girl working on her family's farm. She had a fiancée named Mark who tragically fell victim to dus…
- Coming to all major platforms! - 6 June 2026
Hello everyone!We have some exciting news to share with you! If you saw today's Future Games Show Summer Showcase, you might know it already. 😉The Road of Dust and Sorrow is officially confirmed to release on :Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch & Switch 2! 🎉Check out our brand-new console announcement trailer revealed during FGS:We've seen your questions asking if our game is coming to consoles, and it took so much for us not to answer them before this announcement! 😄 It has been absolutely amazing seeing so much support from all of you on Steam and Twitter (X).You can wishlist the game now on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox.The Demo is back!To celebrate this announcement, we've temporarily reactivated our demo, so if you haven't tried it yet, now's your chance!Please bear in mind that we haven't made any major changes to it, but we've seen your feedback and we're im…
- Community Deep Dive #1 What's next? - 20 May 2026
Hello everyone! We want to make sure we keep you all fully updated on our progress and give you a closer look at what goes on behind the scenes. Welcome to our first Community Deep Dive!Thank you all for playing our demo! 🩶 As mentioned in our previous Steam community update, it has now been taken off the platform as we focus on the main game. Don't worry, though, the demo will be back soon. What's next?More development! We have compiled all of your feedback, bug reports, and suggestions and we are actively working our way through them. In the meantime, we are continuing to push forward on the rest of the game.Here is a quick look at where we are:We're currently assembling the pieces for the Act 3 prototype and will soon have the game playable from start to finish!We are focusing heavily on writing the narrative bits and creating all the graphical assets.There are very few "blank spots…
- Demo Update #2 - 13 May 2026
Hello everyone!It’s been an incredible two weeks for our team, thank you so much for all your kind words and feedback. This has been a truly unreal experience. We also can’t believe that more than 10,000 people have already played The Road of Dust and Sorrow Demo! 🩶On top of that, thanks to all your wishlists, you even managed to recreate Ava’s ginger cat in Steam analytics! 🐈 Happy Mother's DayMany of you celebrated Mother’s Day last Sunday, and that includes our dev team and the Mother-Daughter duo! We hope all the mums in our community had a wonderful day. We thank you for your unconditional love and protection. After all, being a mum is hard work, apocalypse or not!Ava even took the opportunity to show off her skills, reusing some old DUSTECH leaflets to make Katherine a special Mother’s Day card. 🌼 Demo available until 20th of MayWe’ve seen all your comments in the demo feedback…
- Demo Update - Player Feedback - 1 May 2026
Hello everyone!Thanks to your efforts, we've been able to implement the following fixes:Fixed an issue where "missing dialogue" appeared after loading the checkpoint near the helicopter.Fixed a bug where players were unable to exit to the main menu.Fixed a couple of typos and other minor bugs.Not even a week ago, we released the demo for The Road of Dust and Sorrow, and we’ve already received so many kind words from people all around the world. Thank you so much to everyone who has played the demo, shared it with others and/or left feedback for our team!All of your social media coverage and the feedback in the demo feedback thread will be incredibly helpful in shaping the final game. We have more updates coming very soon, so stay tuned!Don't forget to keep in touch with us on Twitter (X) for more content from the game. If you haven’t played the demo yet, please do! We’re always looking…
- DEMO is OUT NOW! - 28 April 2026
Hi everyone!We’ve been incredibly busy behind the scenes but the response we've seen so far has been incredible. With that being said, we’re excited to announce that... The Road of Dust and Sorrow Demo is now LIVE!Seeing all your comments and support really pushed us to get this demo ready and we're so grateful for the community growing around the game. We’ve been dying to get this into your hands to see if it lives up to what you’ve imagined and we can't wait to hear what you think! Step into a beautiful yet decaying pixel-art post-apocalyptic world. As Katherine, you must survive a world of haunting dangers to protect your daughter, Ava, from creatures consumed by a primal, unending hunger.Try the demo here: If you enjoy The Road of Dust and Sorrow Demo, please wishlist the game! It’s the best way to support us and helps immensely as we continue to develop the game.We’ve poured our he…
- 40,000 Reasons to Say Thank You! - 5 March 2026
Hello everyone! We just hit 40,000 wishlists for The Road of Dust and Sorrow, and honestly: we’re a bit floored. 😅 It’s easy to get lost in the weeds of development, so seeing a number like that is a great reality check. We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has hit that button, it genuinely means a lot to us. What have we been up to? We’ve been a bit quiet lately, mostly because we’ve just been head-down in the work. Thank you for your patience and support: we're extremely excited to be preparing a great story and experience for all our players to enjoy! These past few months have been spent finishing up Chapter 1 & getting started on the core of Chapter 2, as well as beginning the long process of fleshing it out. It’s currently sitting at about double the length of any other chapter in the game, so it’s taking up a chunk of our time to get it right, but it’s coming together!Aside…
- We're partnering with Silver Lining Interactive! - 16 December 2025
Hi everyone, we’re incredibly excited to finally share that we’re officially partnering with Silver Lining Interactive to publish The Road of Dust and Sorrow. Finding the right publishing partner was really important to us. We wanted to work with a team that understands indie development, respects creative vision, and genuinely cares about bringing unique games to the right audience. The collaboration felt natural, as we have previously collaborated on The Long Reach together. We’re really excited to dive back in!With their support, we’ll be able to focus even more on what matters most to us: storytelling & game development, while they help with handling all things marketing and publishing related.This is a huge milestone for our team, and we are grateful for the support and encouragement from everyone who’s been following the project so far! We’re excited for what’s ahead and can’t wai…
- We hit 30,000 whishlists! 🎉 - 22 August 2025
Just a week ago, we announced our game — and today we’re already at 30,238 wishlists! This is an incredible milestone, and we’re beyond proud and grateful to have received so much support from all of you.Thank you so much for adding our game to your wishlists and for believing in what we’re creating. ❤️We’ll keep sharing updates as development moves forward — stay tuned for more!
