ShylockSimmonz's Review of Unroaded

Setting and Story Made Up For Shortcomings

User Rating: 7 | Unroaded PC

By shylocksimmonz | Review Date: September 4, 2020

I tend to love dark and bleak settings and Unroaded has that in spades. You wander the world as a soldier who had been killed and resurrected but now is just a husk going place to place not knowing why and along the way you meet various people with a variety of stories; opinions and customs. You can agree with them; choose to stay or decide what they are doing is not what you want to do. Sadly the people I would have liked to get to know better there didn’t seem to be an option to do so. The art and music both set a sombre tone which fit the game well. You are dead; most of the people you encounter are dead; the world itself seems dead and you are just trying to find some purpose in it all. You do start to piece together how you arrived here, bits and pieces of your past life while alive. The game doesn’t go into as much detail in that area as I would have liked. I also wasn’t too fond of the ending I received. The game seemed to think I made my choices for different reasons than I actually did. I didn’t reject so many people because I wanted to be alone but because they were loons. The closest to sane were the characters who were betting their body parts to each other wagering about people they met and their intentions. It only got weirder than there. The philosopher was pretty sane but I didn’t get a chance to stay with him.

Officially there is only a Windows version of Unroaded but there is a Linux version that is available if you look in the game’s folder and run the .sh file. It worked just fine. The game never crashed on me. I did see several grammatical errors. For instance “lefts the basement” should have been “leaves the basement”. “why did you helped the war” should have been “why did you help the war”. “What did you wanted” should have been “what did you want”. “Why did we fought” should have been “why did we fight”. The game uses version 7.2.0.424 of the Ren’Py engine. I played version 1.2 of Unroaded. The game allows you to manually save whenever you want and has 54 save slots.

Disk Space Used: 196 MB

VRAM Usage: 561-780 MB

CPU Usage: 3-8 %

RAM Usage: 2.7-2.8 GB

Overall the game was pretty solid. The story and setting were well done and the grammatical errors didn’t ruin the game. I finished the game in 26 minutes but I feel the game told a good story for that time frame and aside from not agreeing with my ending I was satisfied. There were enough choices available to make a second play through worth it. It’s free so the value was great.

My Score: 7/10

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