Open Roads is an easy game to get lost in. It tells a twisting tale about generational trauma — the tension, lies and love between mother and daughter — with all the comfort and warmth of an early ...

Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to connect with your family. That idea kicks off Open Roads, the latest indie published by Annapurna Interactive. The short narrative adventure begins with Tess, a young ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Visual novels and exploration titles like Gone Home or Unpacking only succeed when they are able to convince the player to connect with their characters, and sadly Open Roads is a game that doesn’t do ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. I once read in a very profound article published in a very prestigious magazine (okay, it was a TikTok) that "daddy issues" make artists while "mommy ...

Open Roads’ underwhelming mystery plays second fiddle to its compelling heroines. The story begins with 16-year-old Tess cleaning out her grandmother’s house with her mom, Opal. The family matriarch ...

Open Roads Review (PS5) – Open Roads is the latest game from Annapurna Interactive, and the Open Roads Team, formerly known as Fullbright. This studio is best known for Gone Home, a seminal game ...

As someone who calls Gone Home one of his favourite games of all time, I’ve been excited for Fullbright’s next game, Open Roads, ever since its reveal at The Game Awards in 2020. With performances ...

There are times when Open Roads hits alarmingly close to home. Early on in this interactive road trip, your 16-year-old protagonist Tess turns around to reach for a bag perched in the back of her ...

It may be a cliché, but surely a road trip story is more about the journey than the destination? It’s the bumps on the highway that lodge in the memory, and how they change the central characters that ...