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The Road Behind Us
The Road Behind Us is an urban survival game about about you, your dog, and a dead city. Explore abandoned skyscrapers, rooftops, basements, underpasses, and more. Craft out of a semi truck and take your base with you, or fix up an abandoned building and call it home.

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Features
Single-player
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔ ✔

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“The Road Behind Us is and urban survival game at heart. Due to the sheer amount of density in a city, we plan to release in early access so new locations, NPC settlements, and interiors can be added as the game moves toward full release. Early access will allow us to develop the game alongside the community, and see what kind of locations our players would want to explore.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The full release of part 1 is planned to happen one year after the early access launch. ”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The full version of the game will feature a completed, downtown district, inspired by NYC to explore and survive in. 4 player co-op will be available, and there will be 4 different dog breeds each player can choose from. Games will be host based, as in you create your own world, and others can join. There will be three major updates in the early access version, chapter 1, 2 and 3.
Each chapter update will expand on the world, characters, story, items, secondary paths, and much more. The game will remain single player until full release. ”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Single player only, but all core mechanics will be implemented:

Realtime switch between your character and their dog, with the dog having an AI that works when not controlled

Zombie AI, Quests, NPC dialogue, keypads, locks, chains, Vitamins, crafting, cooking, readable documents, and much more

A total of 8 explorable interiors. 4 minor, 3 major and 1 skyscraper POI

While there may be some rough edges and placeholder animations, the game will be more and more polished as updates roll out.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“We plan to increase the price upon full release as more content is added. ”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We want to take community feedback and add locations, weapons, items, quests, and more based off of what the players want. Eventually, we want to add a vast list of world and gameplay settings, allowing lots of survival fans to play how they want. Scope cant be endless, but we want to develop a game that people actually want to play. ”
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Planned Release Date: To be announced

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About This Game

Most survival games ask the question of how we survive.. this one wants you to ask something different; why?

Along your journey, you will meet many different characters. Some will matter more to the story than others, but all of them will play a part. What might seem like a simple fetch quest, will almost always end in some sort of moral dilemma, big or small. This makes you ask yourself what the best outcome is; and it wont always be so clear.

What makes this experience unique?

Urban Survival

Explore abandoned grocery stores, shops, skyscrapers, and many other POIs in a city environment. Each building you can enter will have a basement, first floor, suite, and a roof. The goal is to turn on the back up power in the basement, get the elevator working, and finally get access to a rooftop area, where base building is encouraged.

Play as Your Dog

Switch to your dog anytime, use them to scout, distract, or squeeze into areas you wouldn't be able to as a human.

Also, pet the dog! You wont start off with them, but finding your buddy will be one the first quests of the game. 

Mobile Bases

Drive a semi truck, build in the back of a trailer, and take your base with you. A semi trailer is the biggest and best mobile base you can get. Some buildings will also have loading docks you can back right into, allowing you to work on your trailer, in your home base.

Special Infected

Be weary of vents and ducts, as there's a very good chance a weeper is hiding in them. Weepers are nearly blind, but will be sensitive to your flashlight beam.

Roadmap

This game is planned to be the first installment in a three part series, each one expanding on the world, and the systems already in place. Part one takes place in one city district, inspired by NYC. Each game after, will have a world bigger than the last. By the end of the series, you will be exploring an entire 1:1 scale city, out of your semi, with your friends and your dogs. 

The end goal is to get this game to a point where multiplayer is completely functional, where you can play with 4 players, and each have your own dog. The game will launch as a single player experience, but multiplayer will come in an update before part two.  We cannot wait to bring these games to the market. 

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Dismemberment, blood vfx, killing of zombies

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10