Roadwarden
Moral Anxiety Studio · 2022 · RPG, Text-Based, Adventure, Indie, Pixel Graphics
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About Roadwarden
You're a lone roadwarden hired by a merchant guild to explore a mysterious peninsula, guard travelers, complete quests, and uncover the secrets of a hostile fantasy world in this 30-hour illustrated text-based RPG. It blends interactive fiction, visual novel storytelling, and tabletop RPG mechanics with isometric pixel art, letting you customize your character class and personality while navigating inventory puzzles, timed missions, and branching dialogue choices.
YOU ARE THE ROADWARDEN
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.TAKE THE PLUNGE
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.READY YOUR ARMORY
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.FEATURES
Face the vast challenges of a hostile fantasy world in the 30-hour story-campaign
Create your own background, abilities, beliefs, and personality
Embark either as a warrior, mage, or scholar and define your character‘s attitudes
Immerse yourself in profound dialogues and sidequests with dozens of NPCs Collect hints and investigate the true nature of this world
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Lots of reading, but I enjoyed the game and story. The soundtrack is also good. Would not recommend to those who don't like reading.
Throwback to the old Sierra adventure games, but more immersive and dynamic. Lots of alternative paths and hard choices. Obtuse in a way that makes sense. Very cool and very atmospheric.
Easy to learn and easy to get wrapped up in! The story is fascinating :)
Absolute masterpiece. Possibly the best video game ever made. A profoundly intimate struggle to investigate and understand what life and humanity mean. A formative philosophical experience.
enjoyed the gameplay loop a lot, lotta reading but feels like a single player d&d campaign
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