Grab your gun and a lump of unidentified meat, it’s time for a post-apocalyptic adventure.
I was a bit disappointed the sequels to Dragon Age: Origins never built on the idea of its, well, origins—playable prologues that were completely different based on whether you chose to be a City Elf, Dwarven Commoner, Mage, or whatever. That torch has been picked up by Drop Bear Bytes, the studio making Broken Roads. When it’s done, the CRPG where you play a wasteland wanderer in post-apocalyptic Australia will have multiple origins to choose from, and you can play one of them in the demo on Steam 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 (including a tutorial where you shoot up mannequins who were honestly asking for it), as well as its morality system.
