Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Dustbiters is a quick and furious card game about rival car gangs racing to outrun a giant dust storm. Last car standing wins!
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Action Points
Spend a limited allowance of points across several possible actions each turn.
Race
Compete to reach a destination, threshold, or objective before opponents.
Relative Movement
Movement depends on orientation or position relative to another object.
Resource to Move
Spend resources to determine or increase movement.
Variable Set-up
Starting conditions, resources, or layouts change between plays.
Sudden Death Ending
End the game when a specific timing or state condition is reached.
Read the full game description
Dustbiters is a quick and furious card game about rival car gangs racing to outrun a giant dust storm. Last car standing wins! It's 100 miles an hour in the dirt and you're gonna need all the cunning, trickery and horsepower you've got! Dustbiters is a two player card game where each player controls several cars in a convoy. The goal is to destroy (or outlast) all of your opponents cars. During a turn the player has 3 actions that can be spent in several ways, each costing one action: Draw a new car into your hand. Place a new car at the front of the convoy. Drive a car one space forward or one space backward. Use a car power. Each car is unique, has different abilities, and affects the cars around it in different ways. But beware, at the end of each turn the car at the back is destroyed by the dust storm! —description from the designer