Helmed by designer Eric Chahi (Out of This World), From Dust is a classically styled "God game" in which players manipulate stone, earth, water, and lava to help a tribe advance and recover ancestral artifacts. The core of the action stems from the constantly changing landscape: earth erodes as years pass in mere seconds; water eats away at stone; and lava destroys all in its path, but creates new land. Challenges break down into a series of increasingly difficult tests in which gamers use one elemental force to combat another when natural disasters threaten the safety of the tribe. ~ Christopher Brown, All Game Guide