Oh yes, and #RoadWarden is very cheap on steam right now.

I basically only search for games that are under 5 euros there now.

So far I've played 9 hours and I ran out of time in the main quest without feeling like I'd done everything, so I'll give it another playthrough. I think I'll also appreciate the writing more the second time, when I'm less excited to see what comes next.

I've been playing a new game the last few days. It's a pixel art text adventure called #RoadWarden. It reminds me of a good choose your own adventure book.

The main thing that grabbed me was very un-retro, however.

It's the way the game handles gender. It is clearly set in a 'medieval fantasy world' but it's also clearly a *post-gender world*. Not in the way that some games just 'don't see gender'. This is clearly a world in the aftermath of a gender revolution.

Favorite Games of Ludanarracon 2023
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July 19, 2023 - Day 200 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 220

Game: Roadwarden

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 12, 2022
Library Date: Jul 18, 2023
Unplayed: 1d
Playtime: 23m

The third review for this month's Humble Choice bundle is the fourth game in the bundle, because I wanted something low impact, and Roadwarden looked like it might fit the bill.

Another pixel-art based game, but also a mash-up between an RPG, and adventure game, and interactive fiction?

Roadwarden is set in a fantasy kingdom of some kind, where you find yourself as the newly appointed "roadwarden". Shocking twist, right there.

As far as I can tell, a roadwarden is kind of a jack-of-all-trades who travels between locations in the peninsula, carrying communications, doing odd jobs, killing monsters, and completing the quests the game hands you.

It's all rendered in pixel-art shades of brown, but (thankfully) the pages of text you need to read through a rendered in a clean serif typeface (although you can choose a pixel-font if that suits you).

It hasn't really grabbed me. It was definitely low-impact, but I'm a bit too tired to read through pages and pages of text.

I'll let it sit for a few days, see if it tickles my brain (as some games do), or if I forget about it.

Roadwarden is:

3: OK

#Roadwarden #PixelArt #RPG #TextAdventure #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

Out of fear, I chose not to investigate the identity of a poor shell being masticated by a wolf in the deep forrest last night, and the decision still haunts me today 😭
#Roadwarden #InteractiveNarrative #VideoGames

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I don't play a lot of video games, but I'm really delighted to see how games like #wildermyth and #roadwarden show that #rpg games don't have to be generic slaughterfests and can, in fact, be stories about endurance, hope, sacrifice, and humanity. Such great heart in these games.

I wasn't gonna do more fan art of @vicorva, but then I thought "what would I do if I drew them with a #Roadwarden theme" and then the answer was so obvious that I couldn't resist.

#roadwarden unexpectedly lands on my top 3 games of the year. It’s an open-world text RPG built with RenPy but contrarily to most visual novels, it is structured with high-level of player agency and an elegant time-constraint-can’t-save-everyone unseen since Dead Rising. While I won’t fawn over style (it’s a bit verbose to my taste), I enjoyed the many grey decisions and timeless setting. Pixel art is cool, soundtrack adequate & difficulty well balanced. Highly recommended !

"Keine Zeit, Fantasy-Bücher zu lesen?"

Haha ich glaub das wird mein Spiel 😉

#Roadwarden

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/roadwarden-test-stream-review,3387937.html

#Game #PCGame #Rollenspiel #RPG

"Keine Zeit, Fantasy-Bücher zu lesen?"

Haha ich glaub das wird mein Spiel 😉

#Roadwarden

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/roadwarden-test-stream-review,3387937.html

#Game #PCGame #Rollenspiel #RPG

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/deep-dive-roadwarden

Aureus Morale, author of recent hit ROADWARDEN, talks in detail about the design process of his game.

#InteractiveFiction #NarrativeGame #Roadwarden