Roadwarden tiene su público. Ese público no soy yo, tampoco tengo claro quién es ese público porque adoro ¡Brujería! de Steve Jackson. Quizá es que me falta la estética de John Blanche. No sé, es defendible, puede que me equivoque. Dadle una oportunidad.

If you have the patience to read pages and pages of text after every little decision you make, Roadwarden may appeal, but there are much more enjoyable examples of text focused games available.

Really wanted to like this game, but unfortunately it tried to be too many things at the same time. This really would've been better as a linear or semi-linear visual novel-style game rather than this open world survival RPG. Although I appreciate the ambition of the developers, I really felt like the survival aspects of Roadwarden were dragging the whole experience down. Every time you think you're onto something, the "realism" is there to ruin it for you. A lot of the times you'll lose at critical moments just because you're tired, unequipped for the situation, or the npc's won't talk to you because you look dirty or something. In theory, you can eat, sleep and earn money to always stay clean, healthy, and good-looking all the time, but in reality the semi-realistic arbitrary timer within the game always forces you to hurry. This would've been fine if the quests in this game were more linear, but no, they almost always involve a lot of variables, backtracking and require precise timing, so in the end you lose no matter what you do. If you push through, you will often be unprepared to handle the task at hand (tired, hungry, moneyless, unequipped, dirty, etc), but at the same time, if you take your time, you run the very real risk of losing the game's main global objective. Another big problem is with the writing. I understand the writer's desire to go into detail because of the game's inherent super-minimalistic visuals, but the overabundance of descriptions here is such an overkill. Like, I get it, it's sunny afternoon and I'm in the middle of some plain - I don't want to read about every tiny ant beneath my feet. The quality of text here is pretty good for the most part, but most of the time it's just redundant. Certain aspects of Roadwarden are fantastic. The rich atmosphere, unique visual style, amazing soundtrack and fairly interesting plot really **** me into this world, but unfortunately the feeble gameplay legs just couldn't carry the weight of the massive scope of this game.