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Broken Roads

Drop Bear Bytes · Versus Evil · 2024-04-10

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RPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 10, 2024 (Xbox One), Apr 10, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 10, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 10, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Aug 01, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 10, 2024 (PlayStation 4)

Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.

Broken Roads is a 2024 RPG priced at $34.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (52% of 464 reviews).

4
playing now
52%
positive of 464 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
56/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
3.11★
PlayStation Store rating (113 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$34.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Broken Roads is a 2024 video game by independent developer Drop Bear Bytes and published by Versus Evil. Described as a post-apocalyptic computer role-playing game, Broken Roads is set in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The game has been compared to non-traditional dialogue-based role-playing games, such as Disco Elysium, in featuring a mechanic described the 'Moral Compass', that responds to moral choices made by the player. The game was released on April 10, 2024, for Windows, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 31 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (169 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 13,917 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.3k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 464 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$8.74-75%
WinGameStore$8.74-75%
GamersGate$8.75-75%
GOG$13.99-60%
Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.78 at GameBillet (2026-08-24) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 123 of 152 observed days · $0.96 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
959520242026Week of 2024-04-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
592Apr 2024Aug 2026Apr 2024 — avg 59 · peak 555May 2024 — avg 7 · peak 24Jun 2024 — avg 8 · peak 31Jul 2024 — avg 9 · peak 30Aug 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2024 — avg 4 · peak 23Nov 2024 — avg 4 · peak 22Dec 2024 — avg 6 · peak 20Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 17Feb 2025 — avg 5 · peak 21Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 19Apr 2025 — avg 8 · peak 27May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Jun 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2026 — avg 5 · peak 18Jun 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$7.782023-07-172026-10-142023-07-17 — best price $99.992024-04-16 — best price $29.492024-05-21 — best price $27.642024-06-07 — best price $29.142024-07-11 — best price $34.992024-08-15 — best price $26.242024-09-26 — best price $34.992024-11-01 — best price $31.492024-11-26 — best price $27.992024-12-26 — best price $31.492025-01-17 — best price $25.712025-02-05 — best price $34.992025-03-01 — best price $34.992025-03-20 — best price $34.992025-04-17 — best price $13.372025-05-09 — best price $29.022025-06-10 — best price $17.492025-07-15 — best price $17.492025-08-22 — best price $27.892025-09-29 — best price $10.702025-10-28 — best price $13.992025-11-21 — best price $10.702025-12-15 — best price $34.992026-01-23 — best price $13.992026-03-04 — best price $30.092026-04-02 — best price $30.092026-05-01 — best price $13.992026-05-21 — best price $11.162026-06-18 — best price $34.992026-07-24 — best price $13.992026-08-24 — best price $7.782026-09-05 — best price $13.992026-09-15 — best price $13.992026-09-25 — best price $13.992026-10-05 — best price $13.992026-10-14 — best price $13.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3442026-05-31 — 17 pageviews2026-06-04 — 19 pageviews2026-06-08 — 16 pageviews2026-06-12 — 8 pageviews2026-06-16 — 9 pageviews2026-06-20 — 11 pageviews2026-06-24 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-02 — 13 pageviews2026-07-06 — 9 pageviews2026-07-10 — 12 pageviews2026-07-14 — 12 pageviews2026-07-18 — 4 pageviews2026-07-22 — 8 pageviews2026-07-26 — 8 pageviews2026-07-30 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 8 pageviews2026-08-07 — 10 pageviews2026-08-11 — 13 pageviews2026-08-15 — 24 pageviews2026-08-19 — 14 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 9 pageviews2026-09-04 — 11 pageviews2026-09-08 — 9 pageviews2026-09-12 — 13 pageviews2026-09-16 — 16 pageviews2026-09-20 — 12 pageviews2026-09-24 — 12 pageviews2026-09-28 — 19 pageviews2026-10-02 — 9 pageviews2026-10-06 — 18 pageviews2026-10-09 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
29.8%
earned "And They're Off"
2.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-04-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1600%31
PS5 (PlayStation)492%31
Xbox One (Xbox)375%30
PS4 (PlayStation)911%31
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGCRPGIndieIsometricNonlinearHand-drawnStory RichTurn-BasedExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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