History VideoGame / Dustforce

The game was released on Steam on January 17, 2012. An extensive prototype demo was released a while back, including a set of levels and a full level-editor. Each level has a different character, with some emphasizing acrobatics, others smooth combo-building, and one showcasing some NintendoHard platforming. Be warned though that this prototype is out of date, running on an entirely different engine and having much more temperamental controls than the final product. [[http://www.indiepubgames.com/game/Dustforce You can find the prototype here]].

** With the release of Dustforce DX, the [[GottaCatchThemAll Steam trading cards]] now show the names proper.

A UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port was released on February 4, 2014. An update, ''Dustforce DX'', was released on October 23 of the same year, reworking the tutorial and hub, as well as adding more levels (including the user-made Community Map Pack).

* EasterEgg: Remote locations can feature these.

* BadassGrandpa: Dustworth.

->Let's Dust!

* MooksButNoBosses: The boss-looking {{Evil Counterpart}}s are actually multiplayer characters.

* BadassGrandpa: Dustworth

A UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita port was released on February 4, 2014. An update, ''Dustforce DX'', was released on October 23 of the same year, reworking the tutorial and hub, as well as adding more levels (including the user-made Community Map Pack).

* XMeetsY: N+ meets... cleaning?
** The harder levels are kind of like VideoGame/MeatBoy meets AlmightyJanitor.

Dustforce is an acrobatic 2D platformer produced by indie developer Hitbox Team. You play as the Dustforce, a band of the most athletic cleaners in the world. Your objective is to dash, DoubleJump, WallJump, [[WallCrawl wall run]] and somersault through twisting Parkour racecourses while cleaning up all the dust that litters its obscure corners.

A PlayStationVita port was released on February 4, 2014. An update, ''Dustforce DX'', was released on October 23 of the same year, reworking the tutorial and hub, as well as adding more levels (including the user-made Community Map Pack).

* LevelEditor: The prototype had one, but it was absent from the main game for a while, until its eventual release.

* NintendoHard: Many of the gold-key levels fall into this category, as well as the bonus levels, which are only unlocked after getting an SS score on every single gold-key level. The first one, Giga-Difficult, was already hard enough, but the developers then updated the game to include a whole host of bonus levels, ranging from [[SerialEscalation Kilo-Difficult to Exa-Difficult.]] When those proved easy enough that a significant number of players beat them all, they unleashed Zetta-Difficult, which introduced a newly discovered technique to the main game, and [[MarathonLevel Yotta-Difficult.]] Then, with the DX update came the [[BrutalBonusLevel hidden level "Ruin User"]], which makes the jump up to PlatformHell.
** The prototype [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabPMTwY-ME Difficult]] stage requires pixel-perfect platforming to stay alive, let alone achieve a perfect score.

* OneHitPointWonder: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Falling off the course area or hitting spikes will instantly kill you, but enemies can't actually directly kill you at all. However, their attacks will knock you back and break your combo, ruining your finesse score. Because of this, players aiming for a [[FlawlessVictory SS score]] will often self-enforce OneHitPointWonder status by restarting the level if they're ever hit by an enemy attack.

* VideogameDashing: A big part of gameplay. Grounddashing, air dashing and wall dashing are present.

* OneHitPointWonder: {{Zig-zagged}}. Falling off the course area or hitting spikes will instantly kill you, but enemies can't actually directly kill you at all. However, their attacks will knock you back and break your combo, ruining your finesse score. Because of this, players aiming for a [[FlawlessVictory SS score]] will often self-enforce OneHitPointWonder status by restarting the level if they're ever hit by an enemy attack.

* WholePlotReference: A few levels in the Community Map Pack, including Wonderland (''AliceInWonderland'') and Awareness (''VideoGame/ThomasWasAlone'').

* PlatformHell: With the advent of the final DX update, a hidden level was found by attempting to create a custom level and giving it the name "exec func ruin user"[[note]]This code found letter-by-letter nearby the hidden apples scattered throughout the game[[/note]]. It takes the insane difficulty of the already NintendoHard bonus levels, removes any hint of being fair, and adds back the [[GoddamnedBats enemies from the rest of the game]], being especially fond of the projectile-shooting porcupines and DamageSponge bears.