Montpellier - 16 of August 2021. French independent studio DigixArt is happy to announce that the procedural road-trip adventure Road 96 is out today on Nintendo Switch (link), Steam (link), GOG (link) and Epic Game Store (link) at the meaningful price of 19.96 USD | EUR (trailer). Road 96 will be also available as part of the Hitchhiker bundle (link), together with the OST featuring 9 artists and an original Game eBook containing the key stories from 10 years before the events happening in the game. The bundle will be available at a price of 29.91 USD | EUR, saving 25% of the cost .
Road 96 is a procedural ever-evolving story-driven adventure game with survival elements in which players must escape a country ruled by an authoritarian regime that's on the brink of collapse. Road 96 has an ever-evolving story that unveils more and more on each run to escape the country, inspired by road trip movies from the 90s from directors like Tarantino, The Coen Brothers and Bong Joon-ho. The game soundtrack features tracks from bands like Survive (Stranger Things).
Discover the “choose your own adventure eBook” ROAD 96: PROLOGUE
"John, Alex, Sonya, Jarod… The characters in Road 96 all seem haunted by their past, it seemed obvious to us that it was this past that we had to write down. As for the format of the Choose your own adventure book, what better way to capture the 90s spirit and procedural storytelling of the game on paper?" - Pierre Corbinais (author of Road 96: Prologue)
"With Pierre we wanted to recreate a choose your own adventure book as it is really close to the structure of Road 96, moreover the events of the book are the source for everything that happens in the game ten years after." - Yoan Fanise (CEO and Creative Director at DigixArt)
Road 96 represents the most ambitious project from DigixArt, headed by industry veteran Yoan Fanise (Valiant Hearts, Memories Retold). Last June, the Road 96 Steam demo was one of the 5 most downloaded at the Steam Next Fest among a total of over 700 game demos, getting a great reception amongst critics and players.
“This is it, this crazy idea of making a procedural narrative game, with no creative limits for the whole studio is finally coming to players’ hands. I am excited and equally scared to discover their reactions, and moreover the comparisons of their playthroughs. Some will have 6 episodes, some 14, some may die, some may never do it. This game is about freedom, the freedom of the road trip spirit, the freedom against dictatorship, and also maybe, the freedom of indie creation.”
- Yoan Fanise, CEO and Creative Director at DigixArt
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ABOUT DIGIXART
DigixArt is a video game development studio founded in 2015 in Montpellier, South of France. Its ambition is to offer meaningful and innovative gaming experiences to a wide audience. After Lost in Harmony™ and 11-11- Memories Retold™, the team is bringing its experience to Road 96 in partnership with HP Omen and Google Stadia. For more information about DigixArt please visit http://www.digixart.com/
About OMEN Presents
OMEN Presents is an initiative from HP’s gaming brand, OMEN, to support visionary developers building innovative gaming experiences that showcase the progress possible through gaming. The initiative will provide exclusive access and content from co-published and partnered games to the gaming community through OMEN Gaming Hub.
About Koch Media
The Koch Media Group is a global developer, publisher and distributor of video games, VR games, gaming hardware and merchandise.
The group’s publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, America, Australia and Asia. Koch Media has more than 25 years of experience in the digital media business and has risen to become a leading global publishing partner. The Koch Media Group runs a multi-label strategy with fully owned publishing units such as Prime Matter, Deep Silver, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.
Additionally, as global publishing partner Koch Media has formed long-term multi-national publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, CI Games, Giants Software, Kalypso, Koei Tecmo, Konami, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, Tripwire, Warner Bros, and many others.
With its parent company in Höfen, Austria, and the Publishing HQ in Munich, Germany, Koch Media owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.
The Koch Media Group owns ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL / USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham / UK), Deep Silver Fishlabs (Hamburg / Germany), Warhorse Studios (Prague / Czech Republic), Milestone (Milan / Italy), Voxler (Paris / France) , Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów / Poland), Free Radical Design (Nottingham / UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands), DigixArt (Montpellier, France).Additionally, the Koch Media Group collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.
Part of the Koch Media Group is also Koch Films, a leading European independent film distributor with business primarily in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy as a cinema, TV, online and Home Entertainment distributor. The Koch Media Group also owns Gaya Entertainment, a leading video game merchandise company in Munich, Germany, and the Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, Czech Republic.