The American highway system has three primary functions. Two of them will be obvious to all, these being the purposes of reaching a location, and getting away from a current location. The third shall remain a secret between us, dear reader - that final piece of the tripartite role of these vehicular arteries is to inspire the works of the nation's creative minds. 

On the Road immediately springs to the fore but Kerouac is far from a monopole owner of the road novel. Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wolfe, and many other giants of the literary tradition own stock in this haphazard metaphor of a corporation.

Today, dear reader, we welcome a new shareholder in the grand tradition - Open Roads, developed by the Open Roads Team, published by Annapurna Interactive, and ported to a bevy of consoles by your erstwhile comrades at 24 Bit Games.

While it always does well to quantify the breadth of a literary tradition, we must also interrogate the core questions of the minds who have committed themselves to it. How does one Dream Americanly? Do we truly possess the freedom of self-determination? What is the fundamental relationship between humankind and nature in an ever-expanding capital-industrialist society? Open Roads asks what secrets we can keep from our family and how they can be masked between the fabric of generations. It also adds fresh new questions to the tradition, such as "will mom ever got off my case about literally everything?"

This vital new entry to a grand literary tradition is now available on Steam, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Xbox One X|S and Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.