I finished an indie game called Open Roads tonight, in one sitting.
It took me just over 3 hours.
Visually it has a bright colour palette and can be quite pretty, with simplistically animated drawings of the two main characters placed over each screen when they talk.
It works surprisingly well, but I do wish they had a bigger budget to animate them more.
It's a story about a 16-year-old girl (you play the teenager) and her mother, and a road trip they take over a couple of days. The game mechanics are… See More
simple, and most of the interactions are conversations between them both while they learn about past secrets in their family, mixed with some mild exploring.
It's a slow-paced family tale where the dialogue is beautifully written and entirely realistic. It never feels like a game, but like someone actually lived it and wrote it down.
Oh, and I must say that the voice acting was stellar. Little nuances in every sentence showed how much work the actors put into bringing the characters to life!
If you want a little change of pace, you could do so much worse than this little oddity.
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Agreed, I played this little gem, enjoyed it very much, great game to sit back and relax with, beautiful personal story, absolutely lovely game.
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