Roadwarden - an RPG / Visual Novel / Text Adventure fantasy hybrid (demo available)

[Aureus]

Found some screenshots from 2019 Roadwarden demo and compared them to the ones I took this week... What a long journey!

 

[Aureus]

So many paths to take...

 

[Aureus]

Only a few weeks left! Roadwarden will be available on Steam on September 8th!

 

[Aureus]

This is it. My last ScreenshotSaturday before Roadwarden's release. Can't wait to bring you the good news on Thursday!

I estimate it's a 30+ hours campaign, but completionists will spend even more time completing the large, world-changing quests. And since all quests are optional and most of them can be completed with varying outcomes, various players will have a completely different experience, further altered by their character class, personal goals, personality, and the allies they'll choose.

In Roadwarden you can't make everyone happy. There will be sacrifices.

 

[Pladio]

Good luck

 

[Aureus]

Cheers!

 

[Aureus]

Grave news! Roadwarden's new release date is September 12th!

I apologize to all of you who planned to play it this weekend. We need to polish a few small issues before you can start your adventure.

I'm deeply sorry, but it will be worth the wait!

 

[Aureus]

Roadwarden is officially released! : )

 

[HiddenX]

Congrats Aureus!

 

[JFarrell71]

Congrats! I've seen some very positive reviews! I'll pick it up soon.

 

[Aureus]

Thank you both! The review from RPShotgun made me super happy.

 

[Pladio]

Looks like you're getting some positive reviews. I'll bite and get it to support you, although I have no clue when I'll play it.

 

[Aureus]

Thank you for the sign of good will! So far the sales have been pretty promising, I still hope there will be some larger reviews other than on Rock-Paper-Shotgun and Eurogamer, but even those two make me quite happy.

 

[largh]

Congratulations! Looks like a quality game and a result of hard work. Must feel nice to get so positive reviews I see the reception on Steam is really good too. Only "not recommended" so far seem like spam. I hope it will sell enough to pay back the time and money you have invested in this!

 

[Aureus]

Thank you, largh!

Only "not recommended" so far seem like spam.

I just woke up and there's now 1 decent negative review - specifically, person doesn't like having no actors involved in the game, especially no narrator. And that's a relief, the previous ones were really feeling like brigading from some sort of Discord channel.
There's a chance that if the game turns out to be a flop, it can still help me by improving my chances of getting another job in the industry. So far, it seems to open more doors than it closes. : )

 

[Redglyph]

Congrats!

Yeah, it can't be easy to get negative reviews, but it's not possible to make everyone happy with so many different (and weird) expectations. Especially on Steam where it's binary - only positive or negative.

Fortunately there are already several very positive reviews from critics, that must help a lot in many ways!

 

[Aureus]

It does, thank you. I just let the stress get the best out of me, I need to survive a few more harsh days and I'll be fine.

 

[Pladio]

Having 97% positive reviews is really good I would say, so ignore the 3% negative ones unless they're things you can actually improve.

 

[mprod]

Congratulations

I am mostly a lurker but I have followed this game sporadically and tried and liked the first demo so will buy the game

cheers
M

 

[JDR13]

I finally tried the demo and liked it quite a bit. Extra kudos on the music and sound design. Did you compose the soundtrack yourself?