As Dusk Falls Companion App

Microsoft Corporation

About this game

The As Dusk Falls companion app makes making choices in game easy, just use your phone or tablet to vote with or against your friends. Reveal insights about yourself and those you play with as you discover the underlying values of your decisions.

How to use: First, you’ll need As Dusk Falls in order to play the game. See https://www.asduskfalls.com/ for ways to play. Once you have the game installed, download and install the Companion App. Make sure your mobile device is on the same Wi-Fi network that your game is running on and your game will recognize your phone as an input device. On your game screen, you’ll see an option to “Change Input Device”. Select the phone icon and you’ll be ready to go.

In Game Actions: In As Dusk Falls you will make choices that have a powerful impact on the characters’ lives. Use the Companion App to vote for in game decisions that may lead to unexpected consequences. You can also use it to complete quick time action events and override choices if you’re playing multiplayer.

Multiplayer: As Dusk Falls supports up to eight players at a time. With the As Dusk Falls Companion App, as long as one person is hosting the game, eight people can play together using their phones as input devices. This means little to no gaming experience is required to experience the uncompromising crime drama that is As Dusk Falls, anyone that knows how to use a phone can play along!

The Companion App requires little to no gaming experience, so you can share this uncompromising crime drama with up to seven others using local co-op

Game sold separately.

As Dusk Falls is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT that explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong in small town Arizona, the choices you make have a powerful impact on the characters’ lives in this uncompromising story of betrayal, sacrifice and resilience. Drive the lives and relationships of multiple characters in a decades-spanning story told across two intense books.

Replay the story again and again to uncover vastly different outcomes for the characters and explore hidden nuances behind every decision. Will your characters survive unscathed? What kind of people will they ultimately become?

Online console multiplayer/co-op requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold (memberships sold separately).

Ratings and reviews

As always from companion apps, there's an overall delay to the responsiveness of the in game controls, gestures will sometimes get randomly missed despite swiping correctly, and sometimes it just doesn't even connect. Also despite using the companion app, the console still darkens the screen, so you need to keep the controller on and use it regularly anyway to prevent it. Overall better to stick to the console/PC to avoid random misses, or perhaps cloud streaming if you trust your connection.

Does not work. Program has no code and when scanning a QR it will just come back to the camera scanning page. I think this may be abandonware. Running XBGP version of the game.

Oddly, this game is the opposite of what I usually have issues with. Generally I have issues playing games designed for a larger screen or console type device on my phone - and the controls don't quite work. This game, however, seems to be designed to play on a mobile device, and I am trying to play on my Xbox. It seems like a fun game but since I am trying to play on a platform for which it wasn't designed, I can't accurately rate it as good or bad.