Broken Roads will have playable prologues for different character origins, and you can try one of them right now.
You can play the Hired Gun, a mercenary who joins a crew of scouts for an escort job taking you across a slice of Western Australia. While exploring several locations you'll be given opportunities to get to grips with Broken Roads' turn-based combat , as well as its morality system.
That morality system rates your choices based on four axes: humanist, nihilist, utilitarian, and machiavellian. As the"golden arc" representing your philosophical leaning shifts, you unlock moral traits, not all of which are available in the demo. Alienate people by acting like a nihilist, for instance, and you might gain the Lone Wolf trait—giving you an initiative bonus when nobody's nearby, but reducing the effect of being"Inspired".
"For demo purposes," the developers note,"all moral choices will be visible. In the full game however, some of these will be hidden based on how you roleplay your character—though there will be a settings option to unlock all these for those who prefer to play that way. Your companions and other key characters each have their own hidden moral leaning, and will react to your statements, choices and general attitude based on their own world view.
Broken Roads is an intriguing proposition, one I hope scratches the same itch as the old school Fallout games and the Wasteland sequels. At the same time, I'm glad to see it's more than just a retro nostalgia piece, with both its morality system and the origins feeling like more modern ideas. When it's done, Broken Roads will let you choose from origins including Surveyor , Barter Crew , and Jackaroo , as well as the Hired Gun. I can't wait to give more of them a shot when it comes out later this year. In the meantime, you can wishlist Broken Roads on
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