Even after ending my first run of the text-based adventure game "Roadwarden", I found myself wanting to explore more of its world. Roadwarden is a non-linear adventure game set in a harsher fantasy world, I quite love the simplicity of its vague pixel art style, helping the player imagine the layout of the area they are in, while allowing the text to spur your imagination on the scene, while the soundtrack carried its cozier tone experienced through the player's connection to the characters of this world. What impresses the most is how well the game keeps you engaged, where the pacing is impeccable. This is all accompanied by a great text, where I never found it to be repetitive, unresponsive, or too restrictive, while also managing to be fairly accessible to players with no background in text-based adventure games. Its non-linearity works very well for its nature as a role-playing game, and not once did it feel like I was doing things out of order. highly recommend it!

Reviewed on Dec 25, 2022


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