The indie adventure story game Route Ninety-Six has landed on Switch and Steam so far, and the developers have announced that they will land on PS and Xbox on April 14. Route Ninety-Six is a crazy procedurally generative road trip that hitchhiks the Way to Freedom. Every road is different from each other. Crazy and beautiful road trip. On this own path to freedom, you'll find exciting locations and meet extraordinary people.
IGN gives the game an 8-point rating: "Route Ninety-Six is a fascinating and often tense adventure story. Despite all the grotesque interludes that take place on the journey, the game itself has a clear main line. ”
Route Ninety-Six is a fragmented and randomized highway adventure story selection game. The story takes place in a fictional dictatorship, where players play as young people who have run away from home to escape this evil dictatorship "America" and travel to the unknown but certainly beautiful border, the player meets the main 7 NPCs in various random locations along the way, each experience intertwined, and finally after one adventure after another, witness the future of these people in the country on the final election day.
Each journey in the game is random, each is a unique road movie, and the time of the whole world is moving forward, and the previous encounters will have an impact on the plot of the later, so the structure of the game is very interesting. But the plot of the game is basically a conversation content, the cg part is very small and the resolution is very low, and the random is also relatively limited, each npc encounter is just a few things, that is, random order, when the basic are random after the store becomes ruined, hitchhiking becomes a passerby who does not speak can only fast-forward all the way.
Speaking of the essence of the game plot part, everyone is extremely unique but too fragmented, and the overall world shaping and event progress are not unique, that is, the clichéd road movie set, in various film and television works/games are these several settings and progress. It's a bit surprising that the various intertwined character relationships unfold as they unfold, but many of the relationships aren't as interesting as they are manipulated random passers-by, resulting in a connection with the player.
The game also has two elements of money and physical strength, which will affect the player's choice, especially the way of moving forward, but on the whole, this choice has little impact, and the back of the encounter is still to be encountered. And after many border crossings, until the final election day, the game will also usher in the final end of the week.
Finally, when it comes to the gameplay of the game, the game is a regular walking simulator, mainly talking and choosing. Some of these mini-games are conventional, such as snooker, ping-pong, dodge cars, backgammon, and music games. And because of the nature of the game's indie game, its modeling and picture quality are not outstanding, and many polygonal models such as vegetation are very rough.
All in all, the game has an interesting framework, rich character building, but not so brilliant plot, limited randomness, gameplay as a walking simulator mainly for the plot selection, although simple but quite rich. It is recommended for players who like road movie themes and story selection games to try.