Unroaded

Simple, thoughtful. A meditation.

Good to think of life sometimes. Good writing.

"Unroaded" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This garbage high school anime club dropout fan-fiction eschews the normal cringe about the authors imaginary girlfriend to relate badly written 14 year old goth girl poetry tier writing about despair and the end of the world. This is not necessary, just the thought that someone would publish this Ren'Py CYOA e-book garbage on Steam as if it was a game is enough to cause despair to anyone. Humanity is doomed, this garbage e-book is proof. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, ju…

If you are looking for a very quick game to 100% then this is for you. If you want to know what the story was like check out the other reviews because I skipped all of it.

A very atmospheric visual novel that would have been great as a comic book, I feel. There's a very limited number of images but they are well executed. One playthrough takes less than an hour and I didn't play for the other endings. The game is free and well worth the time. It has a lot of text but is not unnecessarily verbose.

I liked this.