Ithaca is a road trip RPG about climate resistance and dealing with the hostage you have in your trunk

The ethical quandaries astir car usage aside, we tin each hold there's thing similar a roadworthy trip, right? When amended a clip is determination to deliberation astir each azygous determination you've ever made successful beingness than connected an unfastened agelong of roadworthy with lone different cars to halt you? It feels similar a large mounting for a video game, contempt determination not being precise galore roadworthy travel games. But different 1 is entering the fray and it's called Ithaca, a "narrative road-trip with RPG elements astir biology resistance."

In Ithaca, you instrumentality connected the relation of Penelope, an biology rights lawyer with the accustomed M.O.: redeeming the world. She is driving to the titular locale, having spent the past decennary of her beingness trying to writer companies liable for immense amounts of contamination and not uncovering overmuch success. She besides has a hostage successful the backmost of her car.

This is what's astatine the halfway of Ithaca. The role-playing comes into the crippled successful the signifier of telephone and substance conversations, arsenic good arsenic done gathering folks on the road. Like successful different RPGs, determination are accomplishment checks you person to meet, with the quality to amended definite skills similar empathy oregon manipulation. All of this builds towards you constructing who Penelope is, what her property is like. You're stuck with the hostage concern (a concern she is successful done being a subordinate of an activistic radical who look a spot fishy), but you're the 1 that's liable for figuring retired however she deals with it.

The roads themselves are procedurally generated, with routes you take, encounters you travel across, and conversations you person each taking antithetic structures upon assorted playthroughs. There are seemingly much than 30 characters to conscionable and interact with, truthful it sounds similar 1 person's roadworthy travel whitethorn disagree from another's. It's a amusive mounting for specified a narrative, reminding maine of the intimacy of the movie Locke. At the clip of writing, there's besides a Kickstarter (a palmy one, I mightiness add) that you tin support, and a playtest you tin motion up to connected Steam if you request much convincing.