Posted on: August 28, 2024
Severin681
Verified ownerGames: 53 Reviews: 3
Wonderful
I don't really write reviews...but...If you like stories and you like rpg's, you'll love this. Casual and delightful.
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Roadwarden
Description
Who or what is a Roadwarden?
You are a Roadwarden, a brave stranger putting their life in danger to make a difference in a 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.
What's the story about?
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. You are meant to explore this place and gather as much information as possible to reveal the secrets surrounding the area. It’s a dangerous task, but an equally respectable one.
Other then that, your character will pursue a unique goal selected by you, such as wealth or fame. But do you have the courage to meet all the requirements that define a roadwarden?
How to play?
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
Explore and change the world!
Discover the secrets and face the vast challenges of a hostile fantasy world – inevitably unveiling its uniquely fierce lore.
Grow with the challenge!
Create your own background, abilities, beliefs, and personality to shape your very own future as a roadwarden.
Classical attitude!
Prepare yourself for an adventurous journey, either as a warrior, mage, or scholar and define your character‘s attitudes, like friendly, playful or intimidating, during interactions with NPCs.
Get lost in conversation!
Immerse yourself in profound dialogues and sidequests with dozens of NPCs to gain their trust and support.
Mysteries unfold!
Use your savvy and be witty when investigating and drawing your conclusions to understand the true nature of this world.
Overcome your weaknesses!
The world is full of dangers and nobody can be trusted. Be the roadwarden you want to be and find your path to success against all odds!
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Time to beat
11.5 hMain
19 h Main + Sides
36.5 h Completionist
17 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
Eurogamer
Essential
A beautifully structured, rich and thoughtful adventure with gentle but decisive RPG elements.
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93%
A dark world with writing and game systems that stand apart from most other RPGs and adventure titles.
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8/10
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.
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Edited on: September 18, 2025
Posted on: May 31, 2023
benoitsmith
Verified ownerGames: 1165 Reviews: 5
Amazingly engaging
"Roadwarden" may be technically closer to an illustrated text-based Interactive Fiction game than to a CRPG. Yet, its top-notch - if copious - writing fills it with such a role-playing quality that you may wish more CRPGs be written that brilliantly. What pleases me most in it is the way the multi-layered, sometimes intricated quests reward you with a better, deeper understanding of what you're dealing with - geography, lore, web of intrigue, conflicts and dark secrets. It's all about questing and exploring at its best, even improved by the constraints the background brings (limited time and dangerous nights). As other have written before, the replay value is significant, and welcome too, since it's unlikely you can solve in one playthrough all the mysteries and objectives Roadwarden offers. Now, with my attention durably brought to the past and future games from Moral Anxiety Studio, there's only one request I'd like to bring to their consideration: localization. I acknowledge the devs' website states they have no plans to translate this game in non-English languages. However, I think reconsidering that choice would be a huge improvement for immersion - especially in the parts where the player must *type* their answers with words. Please, think about it.
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Posted on: August 8, 2025
PeterCanessa
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 35
It works but it's boring
Haven't encountered any bugs, crashes or interest. It started OK but didn't get better, while I started getting distracted by some exciting drying paint.
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Posted on: January 28, 2024
netchjelly
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 12
Into narrative indie games? A must try
The text-adventure style is not very familiar to me and honestly not my favorite, but for what this was I really enjoyed it. First play was about survival and adventure and I didn't do very well by the end. After a day off I excitedly tried my hand at it again on the harder mode for returning players. This time it was all about politics and I enjoyed it even more. Lots of subltely, nuance, and freedom to make your own mind up about things. After two playthroughs I felt intimately acquainted with the world and its people and personally affected by the trials and outcomes I experienced. Can't ask for more than that from a game like this.
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Posted on: March 9, 2023
deides
Verified ownerGames: 605 Reviews: 3
Great game
super atmospheric, love it
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