Broken Roads

Played and finished game in 2026 Jan. There have been few discussion posts like "Has this game been abandoned?" or "How buggy this is?". I don't know, but I played this game through (once, as Jackaroo/Thinker/Utilitarian) in 2026 January with [english_only] version "Play in English only with the latest updates". I don't know how much it is different from earlier versions, which year ago was said to have more bugs. Nor do I know (or care about) any future plans, but this seems to work just fine as is, if you consider playing this. Game was really easy to play: - Infinite walking in desert, so you can always fight dingos and bandits to get xp and gear. - Infinite inventory, so you can always collect stuff and sell and upgrade gear easily. - Infinite money from vendors, so they will accept and pay for everything collected. - Limited "treasure chests", so you don't get so overwhelmed if you try to collect everything (as happens in other games). - Fast leveling up, so after beginning the game feels really easy (but still fun). It is more story-driven adventure anyway. - No crafting or survival really. Just keep [b]quest[/b] items and you are good. - Pressing "F" allows fast walking, which you can use do to go through places again to check if some new chat options available. (Don't use fast walking initially to enjoy the locations and not miss details/clickable things) - Press "Tab" to highlight known persons/objects on game screen to not miss them (use AWSD to move map with easy access to TAB key). Unique point in the game is lot of references to known philosophers, and their ideas/books, embedded into lot of dialog options. Whole morality meter is based on their concepts. Almost educational in a way. Remember/try to enjoy that part also, so don't skip reading. Really interesting dialog option wise compared to other games. My only bugs were related Lake Deborah location, so here is my advices to avoid those: #1 Save once manually when entering Lake Deborah first time (easier to reload than autosaves), in case you get some bugs with "Talk to Brennan" or so. So speak with all 8 persons (Mira, Doug, Jeff, Kai, Talia, Denny, Locky, Brooke) in Lake Deborah in daytime for few first quests, before talking to Brennan again to pass it properly (somehow got stuck, bug or not - maybe talked first time with Brooke at night outside or so? Not sure anymore). Also some Lake Deborah quests looked like completed, all steps done, but wasn't closed, but later new steps appeared, so can lead one to think there is some issues especially if you read forum about game getting stuck; once it maybe was (reloaded manual save), once it wasn't (later quest). #2 For Talia, give 5 books TWICE, not 6+2+2 or something I did, to (probably) get 5+5 book story completed. Never bothered to reload and fix this, and luckily this wasn't needed to finish the game, eventhough classified as one of the main quests. Also was bit lost in Lake Deborah (can't depose Brennan) and Koorda (can't find any Djet?) places in mid game, so here is random tips: [spoiler]- Talk to guard Kai multiple times to get all patrol quests done (option shows gray so looks like it was done, but there is more). - Talk to Ngaama in Koorda and trade multiple times (or something like that?) to find out Koorda underground (Follow option). - Extra: In Koorda, one sidequest requires to gather hidden items, not shown by "Tab", so move mouse slowly over everything.[/spoiler] Otherwise, was I lucky or didn't notice, but no bugs or any real complaints found in the game, everything works perfectly, for indie game very well made, interesting story, beautiful graphics and animations, sounds and all, so for me quite solid relaxing experience! Only wished it lasted a bit longer and utilized rare skills and [spoiler]magic more[/spoiler]. (Didn't finish all side quests, so no idea if bugs in those still, but it is normal to miss few anyway in casual playthrough) Can recommend this game as is.

I'm a huge fan of the ISO RPGs like Fallout 1/2, Wastelands, Colony Ship, etc. An hour into this one, I was obsessed. It has a cool setting, interesting characters, and a compelling opening story/chapter. 10 hours in, I was getting pretty frustrated by the buggy quests, tedious leveling, and incessant "raster scan the mouse slowly around the entire map trying to find the one tiny place that your quest item is hidden". By hour 20 I had learned some interesting things about various schools of philosophy, but was desperately trying to get the game over with while figuring out which quests were actually broken vs. just poorly conceived and executed. Then the ending happened and it was impossibly frustrating. The end boss was way, way too easy, and then the end cutscene had nothing to do with the way you played the game. I wanted to love it, and for a few hours I did. But I can't recommend the remaining 20 hours of irritation so have to give this one a No.

I'm just going to assume that no one is going to look at a two year old game with barely over 50% positive reviews and decide to drop $35 on it, but obviously don't do that. I picked this up on sale after the developer made some detailed promises about upgrades that don't seem likely to be delivered upon any time soon. With that said, I tried it out for a bit of time and found the bones of a solid CRPG to be in place. The intro doesn't make the best impression, with a bunch of nearly empty areas and voice acting for a few lines, but nothing else. Weapons are uninspired, with a lot of examples like shotgun, shotgun +1, shotgun +2, etc floating around. Skill development is fine, if rudimentary and somewhat limited. The morality system basically boils down to good vs selfish, but at least most NPCs call you pretentious for referring to it. Combat is perfectly capable if uninspiring. Eventually, the story opens up a bit more and you get a lot of side quests to mess around with. At least using the English only version halfway through the game, I didn't see any particular bugs. It's far from a great game by any stretch, but it's a perfectly acceptable CRPG for $10-$15.

Visually impressive, Broken Roads has a lot of promise, but it hasn't been updated for almost a year now. The developer says he is working on other projects, so don't expect patches anytime soon.

Got two quests with broken triggers in the early hours of the game. Took it as a sign of things to come and simply left.

I would have given it a positive review until I made it through 25% of the game. At that point, many quests are broken, including the main quest line. NPC's are not at the locations they should be to interact with them, a task needs to be done but there is no way to produce the dialogue point required to proceed, etc. There is no indication what one needs to do to make the option available. For example, the Koorda problem has been publically discussed with the devs 2 years ago and yet I experienced the very same thing. It's too bad because the game could have been positively good. 25/100

storyline is broken, not very intuitive, the game might be broken, i dont know, its too hard to follow any dialogue. morality compass broken from the first mission.. Devs have abandoned the game so it wont get fixed. OK with the fact i paid $12 for it.

Начало было многообещающим, но реальность оказалась гораздо печальней. Сломанные скрипты, из-за которых задания становятся невыполнимыми, какой-то фантастически нереальный мир, путанный сюжет, местами противоречащий здравому смыслу, неполный перевод на русский язык с кучей ошибок, убогая боёвка без особой тактики. Да и вообще игра в какой-то момент превращается в что-то судорожно скомканное и законченное абы как, видимо разработчики устали и доделывали на ходу, лишь выпустить игру в свет. Рекомендовать такое не могу.

This game gets so confusing, I like the visuals/graphics, but trying to figure out how to proceed with quest objectives seems more difficult than it needs to be.

Literally unplayable with tons of bugs. The writing is childish and super simplistic, and voice overs performances are not doing it for me at least. A good attempt but imo there are better options out there. The animations, art style, graphics and level design is good, although the maps are very simple and super small as well.