I rarely review games. Mostly because I do not consider myself a literary talent. However, in this case I felt compelled to write one.

I've been playing cRPG's since 1992. I started with Ultima Underworld and realized that I was hooked. New worlds opened up to me and allowed me to create some assemblance of myself in a game and send it out to
do great things. I've been playing them ever since.

Now this takes me to "Broken Roads". I really enjoyed this game. Took me about 39 hours to complete it. I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I first started, but soon I was swept up into it's world building, characters and heart-rending events.

Some of the high points for me were as follows:

* Loved the music! Total chill vibe that made me think of the outback.
* Loved the fact that you weren't superhuman and only you could be the savior of the universe fighting against some world ending organization or being. You were just a person caught up on the conflict of growing up in the wasteland and you have to figure out how to make your way across the land solving quests. How you do that is up to you and what path you take can lead you to different ending at times.
* And the biggest thing for me was something I didn't expect and loudly exclaimed "NO WAY" when it happened. MAGIC exists...in some people. (That's all I'll say about that)
* Enjoyed the turn-based combat. The leveling was straight forward and not overly complicated.

Now all this being said, the game is not perfect. There are some quests that need better explanations and I would love it if you could use your companions for statistics checks. (Example: My tinker skill is 10 but my companion is 70. Having them step in and use their expertise would be cool) There are some other small issues as well, but the devs are hard at work putting in patches and QOL fixes.

I will absolutely play this game again and I give HUGE props to this small indie company who I believe could be a huge hit in the future. There are some moments of brilliance in this game and I expect it to flourish as they continue to make improvements. I'm looking forward to their next game as well.

I'm hanging in there. Honestly it's not amazing as-is. It's pretty good but not great. The thing that keeps me giving it a good review and actually waiting to dive into it headfirst and complete the story is they keep releasing patches that are really good patches that add great functionality and make the game considerably better. Keep going folks! I can't wait to play the ♥♥♥♥ out of the story instead of just hte first bit a few times. :-D

Wanted to support this game and waited for few updates before playing it but after latest patch and devs removing content I will no longer support them.