The Road to Canterbury
Choice of Games · 2018 · Adventure, Indie, RPG, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based
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Positive80% · 15
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About The Road to Canterbury
May the best story win! Enter the medieval world of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where your journey, and the stories you tell, will change history.
The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word interactive medieval adventure novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
London, 1375. The Black Prince of England is dying, and peace with France hangs in the balance.
You are a young pauper on a secret mission. Join a pilgrimage to Canterbury with the powerful noblewoman Philippa de Roet, co-sister-in-law to the Black Prince, and Philippa's husband, Geoffrey Chaucer himself, the customs agent, spy, and occasional poet. Your mission is to persuade Philippa to change the course of history.
You'll fight raiders and knights, aid or foil an assassin, fire up a peasants' revolt, and change your luck for the better or worse. And of course, there's a storytelling contest with a big prize--one you intend to win.
The Hundred Years' war is heating up: will you stoke the flames on the Road to Canterbury?
The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word interactive medieval adventure novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
London, 1375. The Black Prince of England is dying, and peace with France hangs in the balance.
You are a young pauper on a secret mission. Join a pilgrimage to Canterbury with the powerful noblewoman Philippa de Roet, co-sister-in-law to the Black Prince, and Philippa's husband, Geoffrey Chaucer himself, the customs agent, spy, and occasional poet. Your mission is to persuade Philippa to change the course of history.
You'll fight raiders and knights, aid or foil an assassin, fire up a peasants' revolt, and change your luck for the better or worse. And of course, there's a storytelling contest with a big prize--one you intend to win.
- Play as male, female or non-binary, and as gay, straight, bi, asexual and/or aromantic
- Travel the ancient route of Watling Street from Southwark to Canterbury
- Win a prize in the storytelling contest
- A quest, a joust, a trial by combat? All in a week's work
- Persuade an influential noblewoman to change her politics
- Find love with a knight, a squire, or a traveler from distant lands
- Become a knight, or the head of an abbey, or a powerful player in London's merchant guilds
- Solve the mystery that haunts your family
- Declare your loyalty to England or to France and determine the outcome of the Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' war is heating up: will you stoke the flames on the Road to Canterbury?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 476: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆☆ (7/10) What an underrated (slightly overhated) gem! I asked for a free copy (thank you IndieGems and the devs) because I loved the demo, and a pilgrimage to Canterbury sounded so unique. I love medieval settings, but there are quite a lot of them in the CoG collection. I hoped for great storytelling and an immersive feeling of wandering the roads of London in the fourteenth century. I got what I asked for ... mostly. I got the great storytelling—both in-game and out—as well as feeling like I was on a horse, taking in the sights myself. However, I can't help but see the missed potential here. The game is short, about 175,000-words. Most CoG or HoG games are at least 250,000. As a result, the character development and some plot/mechanics need work. Some of the plot is rushed or underbaked, and the characters are strangely flat and blend into each other. I can see the role the author wants the characters to play because the foundation is there, but other readers may not. Still, I would gladly read more of the author's work. ✝️ [b] Pros:[/b] [list] [*] Some really lovely, witty writing. I wish I took b…6 found this helpful
你虽不是世界的中心，你却如此独一无二。你不能尽善尽美，却可以尽力而为。这就是这篇朝圣路上的故事想要告诉我们的吧。一周目完成后完美结局大概有了点眉目和想法，但是不必再去纠结，因为再走一遍，那就是另一个人的故事了。 简单而不失深度的文字冒险游戏。9.5/10。2 found this helpful
entertaining and historically accurate (enough) interactive game within Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Entertaining and educational!1 found this helpful
The Road to Canterbury is a hidden gem, well-researched and spirited. The worldbuilding and characterizations are memorable and compelling. I'm enjoying playing it very much so far. It offers a lot of replayability and is a perfect way to learn more about the Middle Ages from the inside.1 found this helpful
I really enjoyed the pace of this story and felt actively involved in the pilgrimage. I even started thinking of reading Chaucer, and that's saying a lot about this story's charm! Because Chaucer's book is a brick. Well-played. And is a testament to the value of text-based games. Games like this let the words trigger your imagination so YOU decide how the story should look and sound. It makes for a much more immersive experience.
Honestly don't have much to say, just voting in favor of this game because I played it and had a good time.
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