Open Roads

Open Roads offer a window into being a parent and growing up. It's emotional, insightful, and beautifully designed with an engaging story.

Open Roads is a heartfelt and captivating journey made more interesting by its mother-daughter leads.

Open Roads is the quintessential Annapurna Interactive video game. There are prominent actors giving authentic performances in a story that’s beautifully written, there’s a unique approach to art direction, and the music is top-of-the-line. I didn’t vibe with all of the design decisions, but it’s impossible to walk away from Open Roads without feeling at least a little contemplative about your own life journey and relationships.

It’s a great thing that Open Roads is an incredibly short experience, because when it comes to actually playing it, there just isn’t much there. Thankfully, its story and characters do more than enough to make experiencing Open Roads worthwhile, at least once.

Open Roads is a short but emotionally stirring character drama that is, fittingly, more about the journey than the destination, without so much as a speed bump challenge to slow you down in the latest narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home.

Open Roads’ gameplay may not stun and its visuals are not exactly the most groundbreaking. However, it at least dares to bring something new to the canon of video games by telling a humanistic story in the gaming medium, a brief tale historically conveyed through literature. Perhaps Open Roads would’ve worked better if it was part of an anthology of short games with the same theme, but somehow despite its flaws, it still remains a valiant attempt at telling a short story through a game.

I very much wanted to care about Open Roads, as it seemed like my “thing.” But there’s just so little to it, and it becomes near impossible to care about Tess, Opal, and their trip together as a result. People who often play visual novels will be let down by the narrative (or lack thereof). People who wanted this to be like Gone Home will despair in the fact that it isn’t fun to pick through these people’s things. It’s just a disappointment.

I great little Gone Home-esque walking sim. Like the hand drawn characters, although they don't have too many unique animations or looks to them. I thought the story was really engaging and it had a satisfying ending as well.

Not a bad game by any means just an average adventure game with a mildly interesting story behind it.

Game is good, but too short.Game has interesting story but the story is short for me story has potential but this has not been used.Finaly game is good for 2 hours of fun. P.S The game is in Game Pass and I play on xbox

Open Roads paints a pretty believable story of a mother and daughter living in the early 2000s and their struggles after the death of their family member. While players that have played games like these before might not fully dig all of the voice acting, animations (or lack thereof), writing, story beats, glitches, etc. The game still does enough over its short 2-hour runtime and ends on a satisfying enough note to not feel disappointing.

only worth 2.5 dollar or watch it on utube or skip it. - 2 hour long. -slow walking visual novel not a game, uninteresting alot of filler simple story and short. -only good graphic and character animation.