Broken Roads

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GamingBoltShunal Doke

8/10

Despite its rather simple combat system, Broken Roads is a fantastic new entry in the RPG genre. It offers up a fresh take on morality systems with its use of a moral compass, and the game’s setting alone does an incredible amount of heavy lifting in keeping things interesting.

GamingTrendRon Burke

70/100

Broken Roads is a solid effort that falls short of capitalizing on its central mechanics. While it takes some ambitious steps, it doesn’t realize them in execution. Community engagement suggests patches will address the big rocks soon, but know that it’s a moving target thus far.

Game RantMax Borman

7/10

Broken Roads once again takes players to a post-apocalyptic world, but this time, the adventure is focused solely on Australia. Players take the role of a survivor in this world and must do whatever they can to survive its many factions vying for control. Along that journey, they will interact with a wide variety of characters, make decisions that could affect the world, and fight off anyone who might get in their way. And while that does sound like an enjoyable time, some RPG fans may be looking for a bit more than Broken Roads has to offer.

Checkpoint GamingTom Quirk

6/10

Broken Roads is an unabashedly Aussie post-apocalyptic RPG developed by Drop Bear Bytes. In the game, you’ll make moral choices galore as you decide how far you will go in order to protect yourself and others when the world has gone to Hell. With some great writing and aesthetics, the world of Broken Roads is one that is easy to get immersed in, however, its underwhelming combat, multitude of loading screens and general bugginess hold it back from its high ambitions.

GameGrinPezh J.

5.5/10

Although a passionate display of Drop Bear Bytes’ native culture and heritage, and a beautiful visual and audio experience, Broken Roads is stuck as a missed opportunity where its shortcomings outweigh the diamond-in-the-rough potential.

WayTooManyGamesOliver Shellding

5/10

I really appreciate the global commitment to showing everyone what the apocalypse could look like. While so many of the films I saw in my younger days showed a lot of USA-based scenarios, the end of the world took place in every corner of Earth. Escape From New York, Brazil, Mad Max…the list goes on. Today, video games make a decent play at showcasing the same doomsday scenarios in various locales, but the ones people know best tend to occur in the continental US (due to poor execution, nea...

eXputerMoiz Banoori

Broken Roads’s dreadful atmosphere isn’t good enough to save its lackluster combat, flat characters, and below-average storyline.

Jump Dash RollRob Kershaw

4/10

Broken Roads has elements of a great RPG, but they’re buried beneath a broken quest system, tedious combat and numerous bugs.

Capsule ComputersTravis Bruno

4/10

A lot of love has gone into Broken Roads and making its Australian setting unique but lackluster combat, companions, and nonstop bugs make this one difficult to approach until further down the road.

RPGSitePaige Chamberlain

3/10

I was excited to see my country represented properly in a video game, and that did happen. Sadly the game itself isn’t worth a damn, it’s a classic style RPG but none of my choices matter and I can hardly make any of them. The only real redeeming quality is the art.

Press StartJam Walker

Unscored

Broken Roads attempts to put an Australian spin on the classic Fallout formula. Unfortunately it succeeds just as much at aping vibes from the modern iterations of those games, as just like each of them, it’s also releasing in a dramatically buggy state. At this stage, I can’t in good faith recommend a purchase of the game at launch.