Road 96

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Summary

Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom.

An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Made by the award-winning creators of Valiant Hearts and Memories Retold.

Moments of action, exploration, contemplative melancholy, human encounters and wacky situations. Set against a backdrop of authoritarian rule and oppression.

A stunning visual style, a soundtrack filled with 90s hits, and a thousand routes through the game combine so each player can create their own unique stories on Road 96.

Storyline

Summer 1996, Today is the day!

You hit the road. Adventure. Freedom. Escape. Run. Flee the Regime. Try to survive.

On this risky road trip to the border, you’ll meet incredible characters, and discover their intertwined stories and secrets in an ever-evolving adventure.
But every mile opens up a choice to make. Your decisions will change your adventure, change the people you meet, maybe even change the world.

There are thousands of roads across the authoritarian nation of Petria.
Which one will you take?


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Road 96 Reviews & Ratings

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Review by d3uzZ [user]
July 17, 2022

Игра с процедурно-генерируемым путешествием, политической повесткой, подавляющим количеством положительных отзывов. И все это от авторовИгра с процедурно-генерируемым путешествием, политической повесткой, подавляющим количеством положительных отзывов. И все это от авторов Valiant Hearts.Не люблю я, когда разработчики суют мне свои политические взгляды под видом игры. Поэтому любая игра, где есть аллюзии на современную политику, превращается для меня в кусок беспросветного г**на.Здесь же аллюзии на каждом шагу: вместо дорожного приключения, обещанного в описании, вам будут вдалбливать о политике устами здешних мамкиных революционеров. Иронично, но игра про выборы не даёт выбирать то, что ты хочешь. Под разными ответами в диалогах будет именно то, что нужно сценарию, а не тебе.В итоге это недо-высказывание еще нуднее чем LiS 2.

60
Review by ehtaco [user]
July 16, 2022

This is a decent narrative game. I like the concept, but it gets pretty tedious. The characters you spend most of the game interacting withThis is a decent narrative game. I like the concept, but it gets pretty tedious. The characters you spend most of the game interacting with suck. There are two that I genuinely 'liked' and even that almost changed towards the end of the game. All the characters are so obnoxious and they're written mostly terribly. Also, your dialogue choices rarely seem to matter. The game plays out the same regardless. You'll notice this pretty quickly. The game will give you two or three options, but the majority of the time, no matter what you pick, the person you're talking to says something so open-ended and vague that you'll realize it could've "worked" for every choice given. You can tell there are not many genuine 'branches' or dialogue. I will say, towards the end of some of my playthroughs, there were some moments where something would go massively wrong and I actually felt like "damn, if I would've done ___ differently, that wouldn't have happened." And that was nice. Based on the mostly faux dialogue choices, I'm not certain those moments aren't scripted, but if they are, they're done so very well if they had me feeling like it was *MY* fault things ended poorly. That part actually works nicely.Again, genuinely cool concept. I mostly enjoyed my time with it, but it's far from perfect. I'd love to see the devs evolve on this concept and put out something bigger & better in the future.

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Review by Kirbyisthebest [user]
July 12, 2022

i played this blind on gamepass as I like story games lately. This is a unique and cool concept for the genre, fun cartoony world andi played this blind on gamepass as I like story games lately. This is a unique and cool concept for the genre, fun cartoony world and interesting characters and decent music. Unfortunately you realize very quickly it was written by somebody suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It beats you in the brain with it with zero subtlety. To really enjoy this game and the choice aspect you have to view the world through a lens where Trump is a cartoony mustache twirling demonspawn. Every choice in the game boils down to three viewpoints of a basic stereotyped modern American leftist. Option 1: Vote for Hillary because she is not Trump. Option 2: Violently overthrow tyrannical dictator and slaver fascist Trump because he eats babies. Option 3: You are selfish and only care about yourself. Those are your only options as a human in this world and every major choice in the game is one of those three options basically. I kind of did a mix of 2 and 3 and ended up feeling like my choices didn't really matter at all for the finale. None of the themes and simplistic childish political metaphors felt like they were appropriate for this cartoony silly world, and they're definitely outdated if you're playing after 2018 or so. I still finished it because I thought the ending might be better or surprise me but I hated the quick and simple ending and should have expected it. All in all I should have never played it, wasted time. Still, there is a pretty solid game in here, and if you have TDS still you'll probably love it. I liked most of the cartoon characters and atmosphere and music and some of the dialogue. The unique and randomized layout of the game was really great too. I feel like somebody could take the basic framework of this game and make something way better. Either make the story more serious and get intelligent adults to write it, or make it more silly and over the top or just not solely about TDS. There's a way to do this same message and theme with a technique called subtlety that the developers are unfamiliar with

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Review by sityoazzdown [user]
July 11, 2022

Pretty good story game, with very unique gameplay. Interesting characters and mostly interesting side stories. Plays like aPretty good story game, with very unique gameplay. Interesting characters and mostly interesting side stories. Plays like a roguelike/interactive game, but it is actually pretty linear. Decent overall story, but a pretty underwhelming ending. One of the most unique take to the interactive game genre in the market today, took a while to get the game going, but I really enjoyed it for what it was. It also comes in at a reasonable price, so definately do check it out if you like story games.

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Review by CC_Andyman [user]
July 11, 2022

The completely obnoxious, heavy-handed, over-the-top political overtones turned me off almost immediately. If I want that nonsense, I'll turnThe completely obnoxious, heavy-handed, over-the-top political overtones turned me off almost immediately. If I want that nonsense, I'll turn on the news. No, thank you. I should also note that said politics were completely omitted from the trailer. Gee, I wonder why? I'm glad I just checked it out on Game Pass... if I had bought this game, I'd be angry. 3 for its original concept. 0 for everything else.

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Game Information
Release Date August 16, 2021
Publisher Ravenscourt, DigixArt
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives First person
Genres Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action, Comedy, Mystery
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S