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No Straight Roads: Encore Edition cover art

No Straight Roads: Encore Edition

Metronomik · Fireshine Games · 2021-10-21

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 21, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Start a rock band & end the EDM empire in NO STRAIGHT ROADS, a rockin' action-adventure that mashes together rhythm-infused third-person combat with a kick-ass soundtrack!

89%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)
No Straight Roads is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Malaysian independent studio Metronomik, and published by Sold Out. The focus is on an indie rock duo who battle an EDM empire to free Vinyl City from their control with the power of rock. The game combat involves listening to the music, knowing when enemies attack and when to strike. It was released on August 25, 2020, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One after three years of development. An updated version, No Straight Roads: Encore Edition was released on October 21, 2021. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its art style, story, themes, and music, but heavily criticized the inconsistent and overly complicated gameplay.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 105 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity down 59% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 25,445 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–94k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,094 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.72 at GameBillet (2025-09-29) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14014020212026Week of 2021-10-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$3.722019-08-292025-10-092019-08-29 — best price $39.992021-10-22 — best price $22.492022-01-02 — best price $24.992022-03-05 — best price $24.992022-04-11 — best price $13.742022-05-10 — best price $13.732022-06-03 — best price $19.992022-07-11 — best price $12.492022-08-08 — best price $24.992022-08-29 — best price $13.342022-10-01 — best price $13.392022-10-28 — best price $13.352022-11-23 — best price $12.342023-01-05 — best price $24.992023-02-06 — best price $24.992023-03-28 — best price $19.882023-05-03 — best price $18.362023-06-10 — best price $19.882023-07-30 — best price $11.402023-09-24 — best price $8.492023-10-21 — best price $6.392023-12-13 — best price $8.492024-01-03 — best price $24.992024-02-11 — best price $17.992024-03-19 — best price $8.252024-04-12 — best price $21.242024-05-25 — best price $24.992024-07-08 — best price $17.992024-08-15 — best price $21.242024-09-09 — best price $4.992024-10-18 — best price $6.502024-11-23 — best price $4.732024-12-19 — best price $4.602025-02-11 — best price $6.252025-03-24 — best price $17.992025-04-23 — best price $17.992025-06-12 — best price $24.992025-07-28 — best price $24.992025-09-06 — best price $18.362025-10-09 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
79.8%
earned "Vinyl's Got Talent"
33.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play Together1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-10-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7972%47

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

MusicActionLinearRhythmCartoonyColorfulRock MusicSoundtrackExploration3D Platformer

Census log

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

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