Roadwarden

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  • Summary: A brave stranger putting your life on the line to make a difference in this grim fantasy world. While most people would never risk a solitary journey through the wilder parts of the land, you willingly accept the struggle. You guard travellers, connect isolated villages, support merchants,A brave stranger putting your life on the line to make a difference in this grim fantasy world. While most people would never risk a solitary journey through the wilder parts of the land, you willingly accept the struggle. You guard travellers, connect isolated villages, support merchants, and repel attacking creatures, bandits, or even undead.

    A powerful merchant guild has called on your services, sending you on a journey into the unknown planes of a mysterious peninsula in the hopes to expand the guild's influence even further.

    Explore this world and gather as much information as possible to reveal the secrets surrounding the area. It's a dangerous task, but an equally respectable one.

    Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games, and interactive fiction, such as inventory puzzles, dialogue choices, character abilities and progression, hit points. simple survival mechanics. or quests restricted by in-game time.    … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. RPG Fan
    Oct 17, 2022
    93
    I haven’t encountered writing anywhere near as good as this since Disco Elysium, yet that isn’t to say one is better than the other. Roadwarden is sort of dark fantasy, while Disco Elysium is an irreverent inspection of human psychology, society, and the Apocalypse. At about thirty hours, I cannot complain about my time with Roadwarden. A part of me is terribly sad to say goodbye to this world and its people, but it certainly didn’t overstay its welcome; that’s important. While I experienced amazing successes, I also made horrible mistakes and oversights that the game punished tastefully and forcefully. I don’t need or want a perfect adventure where everything ends with a neat little bow on top, and Roadwarden delivers just that. Some mysteries were left unsolved, while others were solved a little too well. Succeeding is sometimes a form of failure. So much to chew on, and I am thankful for the adventure.
  2. Edge Magazine
    Oct 6, 2022
    90
    As vivid and memorable an evocation of a place as any hyper-detailed triple-A fantasy universe. [Issue#377, p.106]
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  3. Adventure Game Hotspot
    Oct 16, 2023
    88
    Roadwarden is a highly compelling, vividly realized text-based expedition into a dynamic fantasy setting, with a deep and layered story that allows players to experience as much or as little as they choose while deciding what kind of role they want to play in its deceptively vast world.
  4. But Why Tho?
    Sep 18, 2022
    80
    Roadwarden is a fascinating take on the RPG genre that has a lot to love. Its setting is deep and well fleshed out, and the interactions players have with it are impactful and fun to navigate. The stories it tells are often somber but handled in an undeniably human and engaging way. While anyone who doesn’t like reading will want to skip it, I cannot recommend it enough to players intrigued by the possibilities of a detailed, text-based RPG.
  5. GameStar
    Dec 16, 2022
    80
    Roadwarden skillfully transports text-based role-playing into the modern age.
  6. Metro GameCentral
    Sep 21, 2022
    80
    An atmospheric and compelling text-only role-playing game, with a realistic approach to survival and building relationships – where every action and failure comes with lasting consequences.
  7. Adventure Gamers
    Aug 3, 2023
    60
    Roadwarden takes a page out of the choose-your-own-adventure playbook, incorporating combat, role-playing, and diplomacy into its visual novel trappings. Although surviving its world can be stressful, there is plenty of worthwhile adventuring to be had.

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. haveaniceday
    Mar 19, 2023
    9
    Great writing and world building. Meaningful choices.
    If you enjoy games like Disco Elysium and Pentiment, you'll probably like this one too.
  2. dimkanetu
    Apr 3, 2023
    9
    Great game with very interesting narrative and gameplay!

    If you like text based games or games with meaningful choices, well... then buy this game!
  4. Mendeljeff
    May 13, 2023
    9
    Roadwarden is a great game with superb writing, good and fitting design and a perfect soundtrack.
    The choices you make matter, you can play    Roadwarden is a great game with superb writing, good and fitting design and a perfect soundtrack.
    The choices you make matter, you can play the character you want to play and if you pay attention you get rewarded.
    This is one of the best roleplaying-games I have played.    … Expand
  5. U_J_Bold
    Sep 20, 2022
    8
    Great story telling. Meaningful choices. Really close to a tabletop role-play game. Love it.

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