Authentic setting: Explore real-world locations across a post-apocalyptic Western Australia filled with intriguing and emotional stories.Moral Compass: A unique system that influences both story and gameplay as the plot unfolds.Deep and compelling: Broken Roads builds on classic single-player role-playing games, blending traditional gameplay with original mechanics and experiences.Originally planned for late 2021, publisher Team 17 has just picked up the publishing rights for Broken Roads and delayed the launch until 2022. Player decisions will shift a character’s philosophical leaning and alter their future choices, as well as open up Moral Traits which can help or hinder. This novel design sees dialogue options and questing decisions influence, and be influenced by, a character's philosophical leaning. The game also presents players with an original morality system: the Moral Compass.

The game tells the story of a group of companions as they make their way across Western Australia, encountering new friends, overcoming terrible enemies, and uncovering a mystery behind ever-stranger happenings in the Never Never.īroken Roads’ real-time exploration and turn-based combat is beautifully illustrated with hand-drawn artwork throughout, with the goal of offering an experience of playing in concept art – 3D characters, VFX, 2D environments and props all follow this painterly style. Using fixed-camera, hand-drawn isometric props and environments, the game will allow players to experience a ravaged future in a story of survival, introspection and community as they make their way across a desolated Australia. Born of a love for traditional computer role-playing, Broken Roads is an upcoming isometric post-apocalyptic RPG providing a rich, engaging narrative and an all-new morality system.

Broken roads game review