Dustfall

Dustfall is an original open-world western that runs in the browser. You are Wren Calloway, called home to the Sorrel Basin by a letter. Silas Thorne's men offered three times for your father's land on the Flats; three times he said no. Then came the fire. Ride, hunt, fish, play cards, and settle an old score.

Its author built it to test Claude Fable 5.2: the whole game, from the story to the shaders, was written by the model in Claude Code from chat prompts.

What's in it

• A living basin: the town of Marrow Creek, two ranches, a rail depot, outlaw camps, a river and a bridge, with day and night, rain, storms and dust
• Your horse: calm a wild mare, name her, then ride, gallop, whistle, feed and pat her to build trust
• Gunplay: revolver, rifle and a silent bow, headshots, a slow-time Focus ability and a quick-draw duel
• Law and honour: crimes need witnesses, bounties bring posses, and your honour changes prices and the ending
• Life on the trail: hunt and skin game, cook at camp, fish the river, eat, sleep, and play blackjack at the saloon
• Story: six chapters with dialogue and choices, then free roam with repeatable bounty hunts and chance encounters

How it's built

Three.js with plain JavaScript modules bundled by Vite, no game framework. People share one rigged body, with clothes generated in code as smoothed layers and faces, hats and guns attached to bones. The terrain is procedural, with four blended photo textures and wind-animated grass. Every sound effect and all the music are synthesized with the Web Audio API; there are no audio files. Third-party models (Quaternius) and textures (Poly Haven) are CC0.

Credits

By webKing021. Source on GitHub.

Walkthrough: the six chapters

1. Ashes on the Wind

• Walk east into Marrow Creek and find Tobias Finch outside the general store (E to talk).

2. Four Legs Better

• Take the north road to Finch Ranch and speak with June Finch.
• Walk up to the bay mare in the corral and hold E until she is calm. She's your horse from now on.
• Mount with E and ride to Hollow Camp, west of town.

3. Meat for the Pot

• Hunt deer in the hills north of camp. Crouch (C) to get close, skin them with E and collect 2 raw meat.
• Cook the meat at your campfire, then go back to town and talk to Tobias.

4. A Badge and a Bad Lot

• Speak with Sheriff Brandt outside his office. He lends you a rifle.
• Ride to Vulture Gulch (north-west, past the Finch place) and clear out the Ash Riders. Right mouse aims, left mouse fires, and Q slows time with Focus.
• Open the strongbox in the outlaw camp and bring the pay chit to the sheriff.

5. The Ledger

• Go to the Thorne Rail Depot, south of town. Night and crouching keep you hidden, and the bow kills quietly.
• Reach the office door on the platform side and take Thorne's ledger.
• Choice: take the ledger to Sheriff Brandt, or hear what Mr. Pruitt at the telegraph office would pay for it.

6. Reckoning at Thorne Ranch

• Ride east across the Sorrel bridge to Thorne Ranch and fight through Thorne's hired guns.
• Face Silas Thorne in front of the house. Choice: holster your revolver and let the sheriff take him in, or settle it with a shot. Your choices here and with the ledger shape the ending.

After the story the basin stays open: free roam with repeatable bounty hunts and chance encounters.

Places in the Sorrel Basin

Marrow Creek (town) · Hollow Camp · Finch Ranch · Vulture Gulch · Thorne Rail Depot · Thorne Ranch · Dry Bones Mesa · Sorrel Bridge

Tips

• Crimes need witnesses. Nobody saw it, nobody charges you. Bounties bring posses.
• Honour matters: it changes shop prices and the ending.
• Build trust with your horse by feeding (and patting, B) her. H whistles her over.
• X is a quick eat or drink when your stats run low. Hunt, cook and fish to keep supplies up.
• G robs someone you're aiming at. Expect consequences.
• The game saves automatically in your browser, and F5 saves on demand.

Controls

Key	Action	Key	Action
W A S D	Move / steer horse	1 2 3 4	Holster, revolver, rifle, bow
Mouse	Look	Right / left mouse	Aim / shoot (punch when holstered)
Shift / Ctrl	Sprint or gallop / walk	R	Reload
Space / C	Jump / crouch	Q	Focus (slow time)
E	Talk, mount, loot, skin, use	X	Quick eat or drink
H / B	Whistle for horse / pat horse	G	Rob someone you're aiming at
Tab / M / J	Satchel / map / journal	F5 / Esc	Save / pause