DustFall Features — Destructible Terrain, Payloads and Six Ruins

DustFall features a short, specific set of systems rather than a long bullet list: a fully destructible simulated pixel underground, roguelite builds with freely combinable payloads and upgrades, constant pressure from a surface scan that pushes you deeper, six buried layers with six core bosses, and three endings with a Cataclysm Mode unlocked afterwards. Everything the store page advertises sits inside that one sentence.

The features below are taken from the official store description and the store API categories. Where a feature is named but not explained, this page says so instead of filling the gap.

Destructible Pixel Terrain and Environmental Reactions

The headline feature is terrain that behaves like material rather than like a wall. The store page describes the underground as pixels that flow, burn, explode and collapse, and gives three concrete interactions: ignite oil and let fire spread, detonate powder caches to blast through solid rock, and remove crucial supports to bring a collapse down on enemies.

The design promise is that this changes both the fight and the route, because every tunnel you carve and every cavity you blast open alters the battle and your escape route. The same page includes the downside in the same breath: every act of destruction may open a path to survival or bring an entire ruin down on top of you.

Advertised feature	What the store page states
Fully destructible terrain	Simulated pixel terrain that is fully destructible
Fire	Ignite oil and let fire spread through the terrain
Explosions	Detonate powder caches to blast a route through solid rock
Collapse	Remove crucial supports to bring a collapse down on enemies
Consequence	Destruction can save you or bury you

Roguelite Builds, Payloads and Descent Pressure

Builds are the second pillar. The store page advertises roguelite builds with freely combinable payloads and upgrades, names the Drill Round and the Grenade as examples of starting payloads, and offers a three-way upgrade each descent: enhance your weapon, gain a passive ability, or switch payloads.

Running alongside that is the feature the game uses as a clock: constant descent pressure from the surface scan and alien hunters. The scan begins closing in at the start of every descent, staying near the upper layers gets you detected, and detection brings increasingly dangerous hunters down from above. Digging beyond the scan's reach earns only a brief moment of safety, which is what stops the feature from becoming an idle timer.

Six Layers, Three Endings and Cataclysm Mode

The scope features are stated as numbers. Six layers, each with its own terrain materials, environmental reactions, enemy ecosystem and core boss, and reaching the bottom of a layer and defeating its core is the only way into the next ruin.

• Six layers, each with its own materials, reactions, enemies and core boss.
• Three endings, according to the store description.
• Cataclysm Mode, unlocked after the ending.
• Not documented yet: what Cataclysm Mode changes, and the names of the cores.

The Steam feature list adds the supporting details rather than new systems: single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing, plus Custom Volume Controls, Stereo Sound, Adjustable Difficulty, Playable without Timed Input and Playable at your own pace. Taken together, they describe a compact, offline, single-character roguelite. For how the pieces fit into a run, see the gameplay page; for the hardware all of this runs on, see the system requirements page.