Moral Anxiety Studio and Assemble Entertainment have announced Roadwarden for Windows PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam. The game is set to release sometime in 2020.
Roadwarden is a text-based RPG featuring pixel art illustrations where players control a Roadwarden, a type of wandering guard that protects travelers and merchants, connects remote villages, and repels the bandits and monsters that stalk lonely country roads. You can check out the announcement trailer above.
Here’s a rundown of the game:
Who or what is a Roadwarden?
You are a Roadwarden, a brave stranger putting his life in danger to make a difference in this grim world. While most people would never risk a solitary journey through the wilder parts of the land, you – as a Roadwarden – willingly accept the struggle to live up to your promise to 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. 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 development, hit points and other resources, simple survival mechanics as well as 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 traits, like friendly, playful or intimidating, during interactions with NPCs.
- Get lost in conversation! – Immerse yourself in profound dialogues and side quests 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!
