Broken Roads - A Janky, Horny, Australian Fallout Adventure

Broken Roads is a slightly wonky love letter to the Fallout franchise, featuring possibly-mutated-kangaroos, mysterious sex trophies, and a deeply confusing philosophical morality system...
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[@imbenarion8579]

Fun fact, Townsville is actually one of Australia's main garrison cities so it would make a lot of military sense to nuke it in addition to the more obvious reason of it being Townsville.

[@majorwesjanson]

Isnt it also the home base of the Powerpuff Girls?

[@QuixoteBadger]

I mean, it would be tragic. But, would it really?

[@surters]

@@majorwesjanson I think so, Major Mayor.

[@ShortyM86]

Yep. We have major army and air force presence, with some limited navy presence as well.

[@UnnLykley]

If u didnt know better it might seem like a good target

[@lancep2002]

“Who would nuke Australia ?” I bet it was the emus

[@Skreezilla]

100% Emu's since they won the war we have been enslaved by our avian overlords... they threaten us with nuclear weapons if we rebel. obviously Townsville tried to break free of their rule and paid the price.

[@Durmwind]

Prolly North Korea or China. But it could also be India or Pakistan. In our world/ reality at least

[@cubiusblockus3973]

lol, beat me to it! i wrote my comment before seeing yours... dmanit!

[@Saviliana]

@@Durmwind Actually, the most chance is US, yep, you heard me right, US, Uncle SAM, you do know that US stations a whole lot of spy satellite downlink and silos at central Australia? And many of them either powered by nuclear, or rigged with nuclear mines to work as a deadmen's trigger? If any of them failed, yep, you got that doomsday scenario happens to Aussie.

[@stoneageart9965]

@@Durmwind China because of the US Ozzy Alliance ,Only answer lol

[@DropBearBytes]

Hmmmm, wrote a detailed reply and linked to our latest dev blog about the patch that came out on Thursday, but it's either disappeared or waiting for approval. Hopefully not lost in the ether. Either way, thanks for covering our game and just know that a lot has been polished and improved since this version in the video. Cheers!

[@NonexistentHomestead]

Skippy was a baby Eastern Grey Kangaroo at the beginning of the show. In adulthood, they grow up to 1.5 m tall and weigh almost 60 kg. The Red Kangaroo grows to 6.6 ft and can be as long as 10ft from muzzle to tail tip.

[@charlesfranks1902]

A kick from those is no joke.

[@kierangorman3052]

​@@charlesfranks1902Even a slap could put you in the hospital.

[@PJ_TheAverageGamer]

​​@@charlesfranks1902 I hit one at around 60kmph with my XR6 and it wrecked the car and hopped away.

[@NoodleKeeper]

Apparently, giant kangaroos can be as big as 8 ft tall (2.4 m for my non-American friends).

[@MichaelWeber5237]

Got a couple Aussie friends and yeah Red Kangaroos can be a real menace while driving, even if you stop for them they're just as liable to bounce up to your car and jump on it breaking the windows and leaving a sizeable dent or two. And can definitely lay a man out with a punch let alone a kick. Also they have this nasty habbit of drowning creatures, including people, so if you see em in a body of water you are not safe, you should leave. So yeah, Jon, sorry to say but real kangaroos are not like the Skippy propaganda you saw lol

[@richardmeyer418]

A Jackaroo is basically a man who tends animals, so a cowboy - the female is a JIllaroo. A pokie machine is a One-armed Bandit.

[@ogdrujahad]

AKA a fruit machine in certain parts of England.

[@KitsuneRogue]

I love how there are like 27 different names for a slot machine XD

[@TheShinyShow]

In Scotland the one armed bandit is a puggie so I bet that's related somehow

[@fillosof66689]

How many sex jokes are there at their expense? There ought to be at a least some 😂

[@richardmeyer418]

@@fillosof66689 For some reason, none whatsoever. Aussies can be curiously blind about certain things. Like diskettes for instance - back in the day, in the US and a few other countries, a 3.5" diskette was called a "stiffy" as opposed the standard "floppy". It made certain Aussies very uncomfortable to say you were looking for a stiffy. 😁😁

[@evilgingerminiatures5820]

The Kiwi's finally did it

[@KwikWon01]

Nah we would have hit Melbourne or Sydney and left WA alone

[@ManyATrueNerd]

I should have known...

[@evilgingerminiatures5820]

@@KwikWon01 I thought that would depend on quite how bad the Auszie's had cheated at rugby ;)

[@NigelSmith72]

Nah mate, was the emus finally getting rid of the competition...

[@KwikWon01]

@evilgingerminiatures5820 too many of us in wa man. It would basically be friendly fire

[@aspacelex]

Please refer to this game by its proper title, Dingo Elysium.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

🤣🤣🤣

[@KayleighBourquin]

"Disco ate my baby!"

[@ZacHawkins42]

Oh, you mean this is thinly veiled communist bullshit, too?

[@torgranael]

106 years in the future and a pie is only six bucks?! Say what you will about the apocalypse, but it dropped prices on essential items.

[@SpoonsDebonair]

Because you never got answers a pokie is a slot machine and a sex trophy is regrettably an infant. As in the trophy you receive for sex is getting pregnant, not the other much more insidious way you could understand using sex trophy to describe a child. If you want an example sentence "I met up with a sheila at the pokies, had a root and now she's up the duff with a sex trophy".

[@bdarner6944]

Translation: "I met up with a woman at the slots, intercourse occurred, and now she's pregnant with a child." Yes, I had to look a lot of that up.

[@weq3ei8u42]

that is not what i was expecting.

[@XDieKillDieX]

I'm Australian and I've never heard the term "sex trophy" to refer to a baby. Like, at all, ever.

[@Dev-Shake]

It is not used in a flattering way.

[@alexpage4355]

Yeah, a "pokie" is a "slot machine"... or as Jon may know it, a "fruit machine". I have no idea why, but it seems like _every_ English speaking country devised its own term for the damn things! :p

[@ObscuraDeCapra]

"I have no idea what a sex trophy is..." Poor Claire.

[@AllHailTheKang]

Why poor Claire? That means Jon is enough!

[@peterclarke7240]

Nah, that just means that Jon is Claire's sex trophy. Or Claire's catastrophe, which is a bit more likely...

[@Triaxx2]

@@peterclarke7240 More than likely both.

[@chriswoodend2036]

I'm proud to say I was the 69th like.

[@johnyshadow]

@@peterclarke7240 CATastrophe? Eh?

[@thecadaver]

Didn't know how much I needed "sure I'll have a punt at it" to be a skill until now

[@mikey-wl2jt]

my fave irl indie games all have a mechanic something similar

[@thecadaver]

@mikey-wl2jt are they called "punt" though? Because if it doesn't have the vibe of someone who's had a few too many beers assuming they know how to use power tools I don't want it

[@mikey-wl2jt]

@@thecadaver lol. Closest I got is the second Evil Dead game for PS2, which is...problematic. 😁

[@Descriptor413]

Honestly, this should be a mechanic in Fallout, where your Luck stat can help you pass skill checks you otherwise would fail.

[@QuixoteBadger]

That mechanic of learning skills by talking to people is such a good thing three fold. First, it's free stuff, who doesn't like free stuff? Second, it incentivises the player to immerse themselves in the dialogue and role play. And third, it's grounded in reality. You can learn a lot by just talking to people, asking questions and listening. And that's a legit game mechanic. Something that you can just do, and it has a real effect on gameplay.

[@chrsjxn]

I like this idea that New Vegas is a "safe" post apocalypse as long as you stick to the roads. Because that's not really how I would describe a region where like half the roads are overrun with deathclaws and cazadors, and the other half is constantly under threat from the Legion.

[@peterclarke7240]

I mean... "safety" is a relative term. The roads in NV are safe when compared to going off-road in Australia. At least Deathclaws don't hide in your boots and cause you a slow, agonising death if you're not careful.

[@mrcheesemunch]

Well the Deathclaws and Cazadores are a pretty recent development, up until the start of the game New Vegas wasn't all that bad, I mean that had a functioning quarry and everything, stuff was being built

[@donovanfaust3227]

Arguably the Legion isn't a threat on the road unless you are obviously affiliated with the NCR and they're even known to keep the roads safer. The Legion suck in general but I do remember that being one of their selling points was how well they kept the roads safe for traders. It's not like they even have any tolls up like they're running a protection racket as far as I recall.

[@fillosof66689]

​@@mrcheesemunchwhere do those creatures come from? Cazadores IIRC came from the Big Empty where they were created. Did anything in the game stated that the death claws you meet migrated to the location recently? And even most of the truly nasty critters came recently, the raiders seem to have been proliferating for a while, and with the big players focused on fighting each other, have a free run on most roads.

[@ecbrown6151]

Fun fact: you only have to destroy 2% of Australia’s current habitable landmass to qualify the whole of it as “Apocalyptic”

[@torgranael]

Even then, that's only by technicality. I'd hardly call [suburbs I've lived in all my life] civilised. 🤣

[@somerando1073]

Kangaroos are around that size, there's a different creature (wallaby maybe?) that's basically a mini-kangaroo.

[@scottorgan2255]

G'day mate 🦘🇦🇺

[@scottorgan2255]

That would be a wallabie is small about 3 foot the largest kangaroo is 6 foot that's the red

[@patrickwilliamson29]

Red kangaroos can grow very big, even up to 2m tall and the males are buff AF. We literally call them big reds. They're usually not that calm around people though

[@nicbreen9512]

I have seen gray roos around 5 to 6 foot as well

[@Felice_Enellen]

Please keep an eye on it, Jon. I would totally watch this as a series!

[@DropBearBytes]

I'm hoping to see more of this (BECAUSE IT IS OUR GAME) and I noticed from the version number this is a couple patches old. Some things like the free rope, some missing tutorials, a bunch of balancing fixes and so on were all patched in just two days ago. Hoping he revisits it!

[@KashouWannabe]

Take me home, broken roads.

[@marcgravatt1051]

To the place I belong, West Australia, mountain mama! Take me home, Broken Roads!

[@yetanother9127]

I walk this broken road, on the boulevard of broken roads

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

@@yetanother9127 Don't know where it broke, but it's only me and I broke the road

[@majorwesjanson]

Weird Australian sex trophies? Ive seen enough Farscape to know where this is going...

[@ellaisplotting]

If this game involves hot blue plant women I'm 100% down

[@imnw2263]

"Come back to my shack, I'll give you a biology lesson" lmao

[@Holabirdsupercluster]

One of the NSA's most important intercept stations, covering most of East Asia, is in Australia (Pine Gap), that's definitely getting a few Chinese megatons if there is a big war

[@zrobotics]

Nope, it was definitely the Kiwis

[@IncapableKakistocrat]

Pine Gap, RAAF Darwin, RAAF Edinburgh, Canberra (if they wanted a decapitation strike against the government, but the Russell Offices would likely also be a target, as would HQJOC just outside town), the the Defence bases in Townsville, and Navy bases in Perth, Adelaide, and Sydney (especially Perth and Adelaide as these will be the primary bases for AUKUS SSNs) would all be likely targets

[@Bethgael]

@@IncapableKakistocrat Grew up in Canberra in the 1980s. Sting's song about hoping the Russians loved their children really hit home for my friends and me. We took that danger seriously, that's for sure. Terrified me for most of my child/teenhood. Then the "DON'T HAVE SEX!!!!" HIV-AIDS ads started. Man, no wonder gen X is kinda messed up more than any other gens realise.

[@torgranael]

@@IncapableKakistocrat Hell, even if Adelaide doesn't get nuked by a foreign power, I can imagine religious extremists using the chaos to take pot shots at the city of churches.

[@gunz2233]

The apple morality test reminded me of my layover in San Fransisco. 12 hours to kill so I walked over to the Trader Joe's next door. Pickup up $14 of snacks. None of my cards were working, didn't have cash. The cashier not only paid my bill but then gave me an additional $14 cash after. Bless her. xx

[@SomnolentFudge]

I think they were nuked by skynet, not because they were a threat but rather someone tried to train the skynet AIs large language model using Australian English and that's what caused the AI to rebel.

[@PJ_TheAverageGamer]

Hard Yakka means hard work. You put in the Hard Yakka and you get a Victoria Bitter.

[@Raichase]

I came for the game, stayed for the enjoyment of watching Jon navigate all our slang. Also that’s not post apocalypse Australia, that’s what WA looks like all the time. 😅

[@DarrenHiles]

"Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we member who we was and where we came from..."

[@mikey-wl2jt]

Walker!

[@timothy8428]

I see you are a man of culture.

[@Hamji]

Jon: plays the Witcher and makes it a goal to get sec trophies Also Jon: I have no idea what a sex trophy is…

[@guardsmenmrdew4286]

Man I was born and raised in Australia and I think I've heard more of our slang in the video than my entire life living here lol

[@williamheslop5756]

The only time I heard this much slang was when living in the outback. In the cities and suburbs no one talks like that

[@torgranael]

@@williamheslop5756 Same thing with the accent. Everyone I grew up with had an accent, but not this noticeable.

[@fuzzymurdermittens]

I was born and raised in a town which is marked as regional due to its size but is located out in the bush. A farming town, predominantly. The slang was spot on in the video for me, but the accent was a bit thicker than I'm used to. Made me think of WA or the NT, perhaps, although to be fair I've never lived over that way. EDIT: Kokeby is just to the east of Perth, so it must be a WA bush accent, I guess.

[@bobbys332]

Someone clearly saw one of the very many scary deadly spiders/animals in Australia and finally had enough. "Burn the house down" wasn't a drastic enough measure to remove the spiders...

[@mikey-wl2jt]

nuke the site from orbit

[@BraveSirPaul]

As an Aussie myself - I loved that you described this game as in "proper Australian English" Hard Yakka = Hard Work

[@harpoonlobotomy]

If there aren't drop bears in this game I'm gonna riot.

[@KayleighBourquin]

It's made by Drop Bears

[@DropBearBytes]

Oh there are Drop Bears...

[@DropBearBytes]

@@KayleighBourquin Oh hey how's it going?

[@KayleighBourquin]

@@DropBearBytes it's going well, how's it going for your mob?

[@DropBearBytes]

@@KayleighBourquin Very glad to have the new patch out and seeing the game still getting coverage and positive reactions from people seeing it for the first time!

[@calebkleiderlein9777]

Please make this a series

[@DropBearBytes]

Yes please!

[@Corundrom]

Jon, the "super humanist" your talking about isnt 315 *points* of humanist, its 315 *degrees*, that was the first question you answered in the very begining, that was just your starting position on the wheel, you just chose exclusively humanist choices after the game started

[@DropBearBytes]

Hey thanks for posting this - this is one of the points I mentioned in my response. Glad you spotted that!

[@KingRaven101]

Emu War 2: this time it's nuclear

[@Mr_Cheekbones_]

The Emu Wars took a dramatic turn

[@Holyscheizze]

This game is made for Jon's commentary. A series would be fantastic. Come on, let's make it happen!

[@dfalconer99]

Alright, I see how this is going to go... 1. I used to work at a tier 1 nuclear target, it was the main downlink in the Southern Hemisphere for all US Military Satellites, so yes, big target on Australia 2. Jackaroo - think Australian Cowboy 3. Big Red Kangaroos can stand 6ft tall and weigh up to 90kgs. Skippy was an Eastern Grey Kangaroo, much smaller. 4. Pokie Machine - Fruit/Slot machine

[@nedludd3641]

'On the beach' by Neville Shute was a worldwide bestseller written at just about the time the truly horrific effects of fallout were first revealed to the public, 16 years after Hiroshima. By 1961, the Pentagon calculated that if WWIII kicked off, civilisation would be destroyed. The one place not targeted would be Australasia. However weather patterns would eventually sweep the fallout to that continent leading to the end of humanity. Shute's book explored what that would mean for Australians before End Times happened.

[@elijahh2220]

I was thinking "okay, but let's be real, nobody's nuking _Australia"_ as soon as the narration started

[@Wolfineer_]

That's about normal size for a Red Kangaroo, Grey's are smaller and then you have wallabies which are a diminuative species. As for Nuking Townsville, we probably did it to them ourselves.

[@Taolan8472]

So, as to the "who would nuke australia?" Nobody. Who would nuke USA assets on Australian soil? China or Russia or pretty much any other enemy of USA with a nuclear weapon.

[@DropBearBytes]

That pretty much hits our lore perfectly. We need to add more to the game or maybe just some out-of-game lore on a wiki or a dev blog or something, because as part of the next big war, the world is divided into two new factions, with Australia firmly in one camp.

[@figsille]

im dissapointed jon teased us with the sex trophy talk, then nothing i cant help but feel like jon edged us

[@librarianseth5572]

He needed to find echidnas to fill in for the hedgehog

[@ellaisplotting]

Not even the slightest hint of sex trophy shenanigans! Edged indeed!

[@Mixxie67]

At first I was “Nah” but the writing is really good and the clothes are cool. Also, I can improve my Ozzy accent and impress my grandsons (one of whom is named Ozzie-aka Oscar-as it happens). They both can do quite fair imitations because they watch a LOT of Bluey at Gramma’s house, aka “the Blue House”.

[@robcampion9917]

You know it's a serious game in Australia when you start with a yeasty spread sandwich and a tin of beer.

[@DropBearBytes]

[Salute emoji goes here!]

[@CrimKangaroo]

It turns out the real trophy was the sex we had along the way.

[@DropBearBytes]

And your username :)

[@Agentcoolguy1]

Red roo's can be huge. They can reach over 6ft tall.

[@slyfoxkgar]

hope you do a series of this one.

[@DropBearBytes]

Would love to see this. Maybe another origin story will suit him better? The Surveyor and Hired Gun start of pretty differently to the Barter Crew and Jackaroo, and have different unique options available later in the game.

[@ianresc3615]

I just put that game on my wishlist. This is amazing. We need more games that lean into accents and dialects.

[@DropBearBytes]

Awesome - great to hear. I hope you enjoy the game (currently 20% off on Steam with a major patch we just released) if you want to support us.

[@patrickbo2045]

This gem might have sparked my interest... Very good find, Jon!

[@DropBearBytes]

Great to hear - we're a small indie studio still hard at work to make this the game we want it to be. We've got Colin McComb (Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Torment Tides of Numenera) on board as Creative Lead, George Ziets (Fallout New Vegas, Wasteland 3, Neverwinter Nights 2/Mask of the Betrayer etc) along with Olga Moskvina (Disco Elysiym, Stasis Bone Totem) just started on as a Narrative Consultants, and we're taking all the community feedback and reviews very seriously on how we can patch and improve as we go.

[@LordRunolfrUlfsson]

(29:42) "I didn't ask for words! I asked for evidence!" Charlatans always cringed when you ask for evidence.

[@edhart8583]

'A rad kangaroo with teeth in their pouches'. Perfect! Jon needs to be hire as the creature designer for a Fallout Australia game.

[@j.s.c.4355]

I really love that morality system.

[@DropBearBytes]

Awesome - thanks for saying so!

[@eXileLies]

Jon mocking Townsville, meanwhile there are several rivers in England that are called River River, and even River River River.. looking at you Ouseburn River in Newcastle upon Tyne

[@Kaarl_Mills]

Or cockthorpe, or Shitterton, or Great Yarmouth, or Cambridge, or Binham, or Wells-next-the-sea. Forget the ministry of silly walks, the ministry of silly names has been in operation since the Romans

[@lachlanc7092]

Hard yakka means hard work if you were curious

[@revtemp]

"Damo's mate needs help" by a train station? Did Darren get his lighter nicked?

[@Dev-Shake]

nah, but he wants to know if he can bum a ciggi

[@DropBearBytes]

YOU GOT IT. That is the influence behind naming this guy Damo. 100%

[@revtemp]

@@DropBearBytes bahaha mate it's such a good reference xD well done to you lot for making this gem of a game

[@DropBearBytes]

@@revtemp Awesome, and thank you!

[@ShortyM86]

Contrary to popular belief the name "Townsville" is not just a silly mash up of two settlement based nouns. It actually came from the founder Robert Towns.

[@AspenBrightsoul]

My first Fallout Fanfiction was called Broken Roads. I guess art imitates life.

[@parkersmith8711]

The first one I read was Fallout Equestria

[@AspenBrightsoul]

@@parkersmith8711 FE wasn't the first one I read, but I think parts of it still hold up.

[@parkersmith8711]

@@AspenBrightsoul I absolutely love FOE and it fully holds up to me

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

On the subject of Australian Town Names, there's a place called Humpty Doo and I just love that there's a place with such a name

[@richardmeyer418]

Not to mention Wagga Wagga and Woy Woy, along with hundreds of other wild and wonderful words.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

and all I think of is Preacher

[@Austin555661]

There's tittybong too, near quambatook

[@madelynne2939]

Don't forget Howlong 😂

[@XDieKillDieX]

I'm a fan of Kilmore, but that's just me

[@Redemtionification]

awe i was looking for a playthrough of this

[@DropBearBytes]

Hopefully after a patch or two he is willing to revisit it!

[@Karagianis]

9:50 There's more than one kind of kangaroo, Skippy was a grey kangaroo, they're a lot smaller than the big Red Kangaroos you get in central Australia. An adult male Red Kangaroo can be about 2 meters tall.

[@Annihilaterq]

a pokie machine is closer to a reverse atm i guess. or an evil atm.

[@matthewlucas9830]

The fact that the devs acknowledge the indigenous tribes is amazing. Hope the game depicts us Aussies properly in this game 🤣

[@DropBearBytes]

Most of the team are Australian, we visited all the locations in the game, worked with Noongar writers and consultants for the Aboriginal content, you name it. I hope you give the game a go!

[@matthewlucas9830]

@@DropBearBytes I definitely might. Respect 💪🏻

[@Austin555661]

As for who would attack aus with nukes, prolly china Kangaroos can be over 6ft tall, quite muscled too, seen em everywhere in the forest i used to walk

[@Epelpaj]

This game seems nice. You made me wishlist it!

[@jamesnicholson3658]

"who would nuke Australia?" Every nuclear powered nation. The standard doctrine includes minimising the risk of a new power taking over when your super power dies off

[@charlesfranks1902]

Within 27 seconds in, I have already voted this up! If I ever played the lottery and won, I would hire a private railcar and travel the Nullarbor Plain.

[@thefinalv8]

I never thought I'd hear Jon mention my home Town...sville. I feel acknowledged.

[@randythibert5862]

My day isint really complete unless I hear you saying good afternoon!

[@ohmygawdbecky95]

Please keep an eye on this for a future play through. I need more information on these sex trophies

[@RedSim13]

Oh that's not too far from me, I feel seen.

[@AtomCatsGarageExt]

Darwin was famously bombed by Japan during WW2, in addition to many other attacks on Northern Australia. With current relations, Australia is an even bigger target today.

[@Verdantdragon]

This is an incredible title, I am instantly hooked.

[@DropBearBytes]

Thanks for saying so! Hope you enjoy playing it. We've done a LOT of work since the pretty poor launch we had, and recently reached Very Positive on recent user reviews on Steam. There's more to come, and we've just added some excellent writing/quest design talent to the team (George Ziets and Olga Moskvina). Hope you enjoy. Also, any chance your username relates to Ultima Dragons? If so, you may notice some character creation easter egg from Ultima character creation :)

[@Verdantdragon]

@@DropBearBytes great to hear that the game’s development is going well! Hope it continues to improve smoothly. In response to your question, sorry, no, it isn’t, but that would have made for a fun coincidence.

[@j.s.c.4355]

Red Kangaroos are that size.

[@JestRex]

.... the spiders got to big

[@aegisd77]

I hope you make a series out of it!

[@OddlySpecificGaming]

Omg, im emigrating to Perth soon how surreal to see it blow up

[@KayleighBourquin]

I live there, hope you enjoy your stay however long it may be! :D

[@Verschal]

You had me at janky.

[@VinylBluBear]

It was the Emu's. They never got over their last war against the Australians. (i'm not making that up, there was an emu war that lasted ~a month)

[@torgranael]

How can you mention the emu war and leave out the best part? The emus won (by default, but a win is a win).

[@Psychospacecow]

Jon, please more of this.

[@DropBearBytes]

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, JON!

[@LoptWarg]

Isn't a sex trophy just... A baby?

[@peterclarke7240]

I thought it was an embarrassing rash? 🤔

[@Kaarl_Mills]

The real sex Olympics gold medal is having a new disease named for you

[@DropBearBytes]

Yes indeed :) But also just child (doesn't necessarily have to be an infant).

[@ETKCShark]

To answer your question, China. Townsville, Darwin etc would be the only targets though, rest of the countries too far away

[@jamesclarkson156]

Nope only some of them. They got some that have 12,000km+ to hit the East coast. And Australia is covered at 8000km.

[@AaronCorr]

First the Scottish horror game, now this. What is this? Accent appreciation month XD?

[@nikopol7993]

Kokeby is a real town.

[@Pr3Va1L]

WAIT A SECOND, THIS TITLE ISN'T A PUN??

[@threerings7856]

It doesn't seem all that janky to me based on what you've shown. Gonna wishlist this.

[@DropBearBytes]

Thanks a lot - every sale helps us! And the game has received significant patches and improvements since launch. We're doing our best to de-jank and improve as much as we can!

[@ave_maria323]

I want to see more of this ngl

[@Skreezilla]

Jon i moved to Adelaide about 20 years ago.. I thought Kangaroo's were cute little things... They are not Red's are about 7 foot hight and have 12 packs.... they are terrifying

[@volpedoeseverything6791]

On the wondering who would nuke Australia, you got to remember that nowadays Australia is 100% subservient to the US military just like South Korea is. I had no idea about that either until I saw that video about breaking into Pine Gap (A US base that does top secret classified stuff in the middle of Australia)

[@RuhrRedArmy]

To be fair, the Soviets probably did have nukes pointed at joint US-Australian sites in Australia

[@jlaakso1706]

This actually reminds me a lot of Wasteland 2

[@mitchell8642]

9:29 Jon you may want to search up extinct Australian Mega-fauna lol.

[@xanderellem3646]

I'm from Townsville, don't live there anymore but it is my hometown. I can confirm it exists, but honestly, if it was nuked, I doubt many people would notice.

[@KayleighBourquin]

As a fellow Aussie, I can confirm we wouldn't notice

[@jasonfraser4854]

Sex Trophy is Australian for child.

[@Karagianis]

1:09 It probably wasn't something Australia did directly. It's part of the British commonwealth. Australia probably got dragged into one of Britain's wars again would be my guess. :)

[@torgranael]

We've got a bunch of US military assets here, so my money's on the "Murcan"s pissing in South-East Asia's Cornflakes one too many times.

[@DropBearBytes]

@@torgranael Yep - our lore has that Aus is part of the new Allies and many of the usual suspects are part of the new 'Axis'. Long overdue doing a post about it/putting more lore in the wiki. We were limited (severely) from putting as much history in the game due to word count restrictions related to localisation costs. But we're going to keep expanding on the English content and reckon we need to explain this apocalypse a little more within the game itself :)

[@andrewdeschenes5162]

Why nuke Australia? All the critters started to escape

[@blueriversrapper]

make this a series

[@katieheys3007]

Been seeing this about online a lot in the last day or two, looks interesting.

[@DropBearBytes]

Thanks - we released a big new patch and added some RPG writing/design heavyweights as Narrative Consultants and that has been getting us a bit of buzz. Plus it's 20% off as part of the Steam Summer Sale right now.

[@Version0111]

This just reminded me how much I want to see you to do a full Disco Elysium playthrough.

[@sidneysun5217]

it's australia, it's dangerous even before the apocalypose lol

[@Oðrun]

what the actual fuck Jon. 😮

[@blueriversrapper]

Make this a series