Fit check
Is Highway Wars worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want choice-driven post-apocalyptic fiction rather than action-focused gameplay
- Readers interested in relationship options alongside political and territorial decisions
- Players who enjoy replaying branching stories to explore different endings
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking graphics-heavy gameplay, since the game is primarily text-based and has no sound effects
- Players looking for a narrowly linear story, since the narrative branches across multiple routes and endings
- Players who want a conventional combat-focused RPG rather than interactive fiction with conquest elements
Our take on Highway Wars
Rather than centering on combat encounters or a fixed quest sequence, this RPG presents a 230,000-word interactive novel. Road travel, political choices, relationships, and territorial conquest replace the genre's usual graphics-led progression.
What is Highway Wars?
Highway Wars is a text-based interactive novel set in the arid plains of a post-apocalyptic 21st-century world.
Players take the role of a Highway Marshall and decide whether to protect remaining cities, rule as a Warlord, or pursue a future for humanity elsewhere. Choices direct the narrative across multiple paths, with 24 possible endings. The game includes character selection for male, female, or non-binary protagonists, romance and marriage options, companion recruitment, several difficulty settings, and illustrations. Its story spans 230,000 words and combines a road journey through wastelands with territorial conquest. There are no graphics or sound effects beyond the included illustrations.
How Highway Wars plays
- 01Branching Story Paths
- Player decisions lead to different narrative routes and 24 possible conclusions.
- 02Character Identity Choices
- The protagonist can be male, female, or non-binary.
- 03Relationships And Marriage
- Romance with other characters can develop into marriage.
- 04Companion Recruitment
- A selection of companions can form the player's crew.
- 05Difficulty Settings
- Multiple difficulty levels change how the game can be played.
- 06Long-Form Text
- The interactive novel contains 230,000 words and includes several illustrations.
Highway Wars compared to similar games
Highway Wars presents a text-based post-apocalyptic novel with branching choices, romance, crew selection, and 24 endings. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition is an RPG built around an unconventional story, characters, and soundtrack, while Back to the Dawn focuses on prison survival, investigation, corruption, and escape. These alternatives therefore use different settings and gameplay structures from Highway Wars.
Highway Wars: platforms & release
Is Highway Wars worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want choice-driven post-apocalyptic fiction rather than action-focused gameplay. Skip it if: players seeking graphics-heavy gameplay, since the game is primarily text-based and has no sound effects.
Where can I download Highway Wars?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Highway Wars's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Highway Wars on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
