Broken Roads

Broken Roads is a party-based post-apocalyptic role-playing game for people who want long conversations, moral choices, and old-school map work instead of constant shooting. By our assessment, its real strength is the Australian wasteland setting and the emphasis on dialogue and consequences, which give it a distinct voice in a crowded genre. The trade-off is pace: this kind of RPG asks for patience, careful reading, and tolerance for backtracking, and the combat will not be the main attraction for everyone. In practice it feels closer to classic Fallout-style role-playing than to a slick action adventure, with a lot of time spent talking, deciding, and checking where the next stretch of road leads. It sits best beside other narrative CRPGs, not beside fast combat games, and it rewards players who like choices to linger.