Road 96: All information about the release

Road 96 promises to become a special roadtrip because you never know what happens to you next on the journey.

Adventures that put the storytelling in the foreground and do not have much gameplay to offer, there are many at the number. You do not always run completely linear. In some titles, you enjoy a certain freedom of choice and can influence the course of the action at least at certain points. Just think of the Games of Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human), Telltale (The Walking Dead) or the Life Is Strange series. But what has not yet been a title of this kind, is the connection from storytelling and procedural generation. Road 96 is exactly what.

What is Road 96?

The name Road 96 suggests that a street with the same name plays an important role here. But that's not the case, because in the game there are thousands of roads. The number probably plays rather that Road 96 plays in 1996, where you just make a roadtrip. However, this is not a vacation trip. You are on the flight in front of a regime and struggling us survival. After all, you have to eat something and for that you need money that you have to earn you somehow.

Road 96, however, is not a survival game, but an adventure in which you always make decisions that affect the further course of the game. The special thing about the title is just that the story is writing while you play. Wherever your way leads on which characters you meet what events happen, all this is different in every game passage thanks to procedural generation.

It is followed by the events from the EGO perspective, explores the different environments, conducts dialogues with other characters and every now and then there's a little action, for example, if they are persecuted by the police and they bother them with money bags. Minigames are also part of the game.

Who did it?

Developer of Road 96 is the Indie-Studio DigiShixart from Montpellier in southern France. This was founded in 2015 by the couple Anne-Laure and Yoan Fanise. She had not previously worked in the video game industry, he was once hired at Ubisoft. There he started as a sound designer and later became audio director, among others for Rayman Raving Rabbids and Rabbids Go Home. In 2010 he left his homeland and moved to Ubisoft Singapore, where he was mainly responsible for the sound of the lakes in Assassin's Creed 3.

In 2012 it went back to France, where Yoan Fanise worked as Content and Audio Director at World War Adventure Valiant Hearts: The Great was working. After that he and Ubisoft went separated paths and DigiSTArt. The first game of the studio has been the strong musical skill game Lost in Harmony, which first appeared for mobile devices and later the PC as well as the switch. 2018 followed with 11-11 Memories Retold an adventure, which deals exactly like Valiant Hearts with the First World War. Road 96 is now the third game of DigiSIXART.

Which platforms appear Road 96?

If you do not have a PC where you could play Road 96, you mandatory need a Nintendo Switch to compete the roadtrip. For more platforms, the title does not appear for the time being. Road 96 is available on the PC on Steam and Gog and Epic Games Store.

Who is Road 96?

A story-pulp adventure with procedural generation is an interesting experiment that can fail, as well as well as well as an innovative and very special experience can be. You should definitely start something with titles like Life's Strange, if you want to have fun with Road 96. Although there is certainly more actionable passages, it's just a game that is rather quiet and in which history is in the foreground. Who preferred titles with complex game mechanics, will probably not have much pleasure.

The system requirements of the PC version

Minimum:

  • Operating system: Windows 7 or 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 4460 or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB
  • graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage space: 15 GB

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