Road to India: Between Hell and Nirvana

 PC
Metascore
61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Armchair Empire
    60
    There is no real choice or variation however, as gamers must exhaust all the dialogue options before they are able to stop talking to someone.
  2. IGN
    52
    Entertaining, but much too brief. The puzzles are simplistic. Yes, the graphics are a sight, but do not make up for everything else lacking.
  3. GameSpy
    80
    While it's not perfect, Road to India is a stylish and imaginative adventure game.
  5. GameSpot
    70
    While the game isn't very long (somewhere around 10 hours) and doesn't offer much replay value thanks to its essentially linear progression, it's a fine example of old-school adventure gaming with a modern presentation.
  6. Adrenaline Vault
    50
    While a part of the gameplay is absorbing, and the graphics and puzzles are noteworthy, there is no lasting impression communicated, so you never really care much about the outcome.
  7. Electric Playground
    70
    It can't touch my all-time favorite adventure games, but it goes down nice and easy, like a midnight snack.
  8. Adventure Gamers
    70
    A short game. A very short game. It wouldn’t be at all difficult to complete it within one sitting, and experienced adventure gamers may zip through within an hour or two. As a comparison, it gives Full Throttle a run for its money for World’s Shortest Adventure Game.
  9. Yahoo!
    60
    More like a short story where you can count the characters and locations on one hand. It's not an ambitious project, but still has a fairly high entertainment value.
  10. Computer Games Magazine
    70
    The game is short and simplistic, but it provides quick-moving action that suits the game's pulp novel feel—likely just what the game's designers had in mind.
  11. Four Fat Chicks
    75
    All in all, Road to India spins a good yarn, it looks nice, and it's fun to play ... but it is most assuredly too short and too easy.
  12. Quandary
    60
    Although it's an interesting chase it could have been so much better with more things going on, more twists in the plot so that the player gets more of a sense of solving problems and progressing under their own steam.
  13. Just Adventure
    58
    No singing, no punch lines, no double entendres. Just rats, dark alleys, murderous thugs, and mysterious religious cults. Thank goodness Road to India is a short game or I may have sacrificed myself to an eight-armed deity just for the comedic relief.
  14. PC Gamer
    67
    A pleasant five-hour distraction, but nothing more.
  15. Computer Gaming World
    20
    It’s shorter than most game demos. It’s shorter than most game installations. [Jan 2002, p.119]
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