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July 19, 2023 - Day 200 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 220Game: Roadwarden
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 12, 2022
Library Date: Jul 18, 2023
Unplayed: 1d
Playtime: 23mThe 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
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