"Today we're announcing that Broken Roads will offer pacifist playthroughs for certain character builds," developer Drop Bear Bytes announced in its latest dev blog, "meaning the game can be completed without combat or killing anyone—if you make the appropriate choices along the way, that is."
Broken Roads is a CRPG set in post-apocalyptic Australia. Isolated from the rest of the world, the locals don't know exactly what brought on the end times, referring to the mystery event with charmingly Australian frankness as "World War Shit". It's a hardscrabble setting where survival isn't guaranteed, with a bit of Mad Max in its DNA and a turn-based combat system. Which makes it interesting that Drop Bear Bytes decided to allow players the option to solve problems nonviolently all the way through. It won't be a matter of simply ticking the "pacifist playthrough" box, however.
