Death Road to Canada

Death Road to Canada is a joyful return to the simpler things in gaming. While it may not have the power of a AAA developer behind it, it certainly does have what AAA developers lack nowadays, a sense of fun.

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A fiendishly constructed zombie mashing roguelike with a veritable mountain of stuff to do, Death Road to Canada is the hilarious, ever-compelling road trip odyssey you never knew you wanted.

When the issues of a game are rolled and stomped by its greatness, then it’s something to invest on if you have some spare.

A pair of survivors set out on a perilous journey, hearing rumors of a safe haven north of the border. Along the way they pick up allies, fend off zombies while scavenging supplies from abandoned buildings. Every decision could spell the end, yet they press on knowing that success means safety from the horde. This is the Death Road to Canada and it’s a road I entered with low expectations, thinking it to be a simple survival game without much meat on the bone. What I got was a surprisingly full course meal, rewarding strategic planning and punishing every bad decision. I’ve driven down this ro...

Death Road to Canada is available now (after a short delay) on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Anyone looking to make the deadly journey can grab the game for PC via Humble Bundle.

And that’s why they call it Death Road to Canada. It can be too harsh for its own good, and folks who are tired of roguelikes will struggle to embrace that part of the design, but it’s still one of the better road-trip games I’ve played thanks to its cheerful personality, amusing writing, and all-around charm.

Death Road to Canada is a really enjoyable and successful roguelite. The usual conventions and trappings of the genre are well suited to both the setting and the presentation of the game, and the novel adaptations of the old Oregon Trail conventions add a great layer of strategy and randomness to the mix. Whilst the environments can be a little repetitive and the need for replaying numerous times is potentially offputting, there is so much to discover, and so many different game modes to unlock that it’s easy to recommend. While playing this won’t necessarily help with an exit strategy for if ...

Death Road to Canada is another in a long line of solid indie titles on the Switch. Great fun on the go, loads of replay value, and lots of fun as a 2-player co-op game give this one the legs that'll make the cheap $15 worth the spend.

Where is the one safe place to go when the zombie apocalypse is in full swing? Canada of course. Take your band of up to four survivors all the way from Florida to Canada, fighting through hordes of zombies, murderous bandits, and killer-animals.

Death Road to Canada is a title you can easily sink hours into as you get absorbed by its solid action and resource management gameplay but eventually is dragged down by how repetitive the journey can feel, even with randomly generated events.

It's the apocalypse so head on up to Canada in the hopes of a better life like so many Americans already do. Be sure to pack enough food, gas, medical supplies, and bullets as I'm sure you'll need anything that you can get your filthy American hands on!