Highway Wars

So, I got some hours into this storytelling game. Unfortunately I can't recommend it, I got so disappointed with the ending being so quick. I was expecting a way longer story than this. It started off real promising and suprises around some corners and such. Then it just became more storytelling than actual decision making, making little difference to be honest. Unless a Highway Wars 2 is out already somewhere, I wouldn't bother playing this

Having played it thrice through here's my thoughts: The beginning is annoyingly linear with plenty of railroading and fake choices. After the halfway point things change, and the story and your choices branch things immensely. Indeed, the various finales are quite interesting and fairly different from each other. The setting is fine enough(with some very nice bits), but the characters are quite limited and thus don't really feel like characters for the most parts. This is especially true for the NPCs that follow you around. Regardless of the NPC, they pretty much say the same thing no matter what, except for variations based on other things. Other than that the writing is solid. The choices vary in quality quite a lot. Some are extremely important and change things a lot, while others are completely meaningless while masquerading as meaningful choices. Quite often(especially in the beginning) there are choices that amount to "You chose the wrong thing, now go back and choose the ...

It's a shame because I'd love to reccomend this game. What is there is excellent. However, on completing what I thought was going to be the first chapter and just when I was getting into it, the game ended abuptly. For the same price you are waaaaay better off going with a longer multichapter tittle like Tin Star with 10x as much content.

Not worth the three bucks I paid.

More like Fallout than Mad Max, truth be told. While one can play it as just a postapocalyptic car sim, between the [spoiler] super mutants, the lasers, the robots, the vampires and the rocket ship [/spoiler], it's kind of like a hybrid. The romance seemed phoned-in, at best, and the only character I really remember well was the [spoiler] AI [/spoiler] , who, by the way, one should totally have been able to romance. All in all, it's fairly fun, and weird in a good way.

I've only done one ending so far and i have to say. This text rpg game is one of my new favorites. i love the Mad max twist on the game, and i got a instant connection with the characters. The Creator did amazing work with the game, cheers!

been waiting for this for a while and im not usually a fan of these games involving alot of reading but i am a huge fan of mad max and other post apocolyptic things so this caught my eye and as im 3 hours in it seems pretty awesome

So, this story is an odd one. It takes some moves in directions I like. The maps and other visuals that can be optionally added in were a really nice touch. The story starts off giving you so much information and it seems like you're going to be in for a long haul with tons of interesting twists.... and you are... until the end. From the point you reach your first possible "ending", the game just rushes towards a finish line in a way that is very boring. It's like the creator of this game put their heart and soul into writing the first 1/4 of a massive story they planned... and then all of a sudden realized that it was due for release the next day and just cobbled together a quick wrap-up at the very last second for the other 3/4 of the story. I recommend this one as its interesting and a concept I would LOVE to see thought out more in a follow-up, but I still can't give this higher than a 6/10.

Really really good offering from choice of games. Max asethtic and great gameplay. Highly highly reccomend.

I've played games by similar creators, this game is by far the worst. Very short, hard to understand, unengaging dialogue, characters feel boring and flat, choices don't matter. I played on normal and it felt like a normal difficulty so as long as you pick the right difficulty you can have that experience. Would not recommend, better off playing better rated games in similar categories. I rarely review, but this game was so bad I had to