Review Open Roads PS5 MotherDaughter Road Trip Is a Leisurely Narrative Cruise
Driving down memory lane.
Things haven't been easy for Fullbright, the company that most famously produced Gone Home back in 2013, a slice of indie narrative heaven that won plaudits. After the excellent (but less virally successful) Tacoma in 2017, it's now back with another long-awaited game, Open Roads — except, in fact, the name Fullbright has been scrubbed from the final product after allegations of a toxic workplace culture sprung up a few years ago. Delays and slow progress have seen it slip years from its original release window, but the game is here at last: a short and sweet story-driven road trip.
Open Roads begins as high-schooler Tess Devine packs up her room — she's getting ready to move house with her single mum, Opal. Picking up and stowing away the many accoutrements of teenage life in 2003 is a whistle-stop tour through what her life has looked like to this point. It's the most Gone Home-ish segment of a pretty Gone Home-ish game, a similarity that shouldn't be a huge surprise, but this is more of an active experience for the player character than that first title.
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