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Roadwarden

94% positive of 4,513 Steam reviews

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To finish
21 h
Released
2022
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG, itch.io

Made by Moral Anxiety Studio. Published by Assemble Entertainment.

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • Text-Based
  • RPG
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Story Rich
  • Choices Matter
  • Adventure
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Multiple Endings
  • Visual Novel
  • Fantasy

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    This isn't really a review. I mostly want to talk directly to the writer/developer, and to anyone interested in writing, about something very specific in Roadwarden's writing. I genuinely think it's one of the main things holding the game back from being something of a masterpiece. I'm not saying "write better." I'm trying to explain precisely where the writing loses its grip and what I think would make it stronger…

    33 h played when written. 52 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    objectively - i don't know. the art is good, the overall looks are good, the music is good, the vibes are good, the setting is good, the writing is good, not even naive and/or tropey. but it's a book. ya like books? here's Books 2: Electric Boogaloo. i.e. obviously not for everyone. for me though - the second i saw it, i knew right away that it's exactly what i need. the right type of "gameplay" (all text), the…

    43 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Gonna go a bit against the grain here and say that this one wasn't really for me... My biggest problem is that I feel that many of the decision making elements of the game require prior knowledge from previous play throughs to get correct. If I get penalized for choosing dialogue option A instead of B when there wasn't any information up to given up to that point to tell me what to choose, that's not fun, it's just…

    9.1 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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