I was really interested in this from the moment I found out about it. It ended up being a lot different to what I thought it would be, but not in a bad way. Entertaining and thoughtful in a lot of ways. I think that the promise that "no one's road is the same" is a bit of a stretch though.

Broadly speaking, the game has an overarching narrative and each time you start a new run, the characters you meet are going to be at a different part of their arcs, depending on how many times you've encountered them so far. The game picks and chooses a random event that you haven't yet seen and makes sense for the narrative based on where on the timeline you are. At the start of my new game +, I did indeed start off at a completely new event, but the one after that was one I had seen in my previous playthrough.

Nearing the end of my first playthrough too, certain methods of travel just stopped having new events, so there's a limit on the unique content. It's still fun seeing where you'll end up next, and it helps give the game a that road-trip energy that it's obviously going for. It just seems like a stretch to say that every journey will be different. Maybe throughout the rest of my new game +, my thoughts will change a little though.

The game is a little rough around the edges in some places, but it has a nice art style. The voice acting is decent enough, and the OST is fun. I will say, it seemed a little under-polished in some areas, but that may have just been me.

If Road 96's sales pitch interests you, I definitely recommend you give it a shot, since it is an interesting game, despite any flaws it has.