Unfortunately this one is a miss for me. I love the format and what the game presents. It's a story-driven "open-world" RPG, driven through text and some really simple UI. I'm a fan. But, the core mechanisms are obtuse in a bad way. For example, I could NOT figure out how to sleep, which means my character couldn't make progress.

I didn't have any items that let me sleep. I went to multiple inns - icons on the map said I could sleep - but I could not find options in the UI or dialogue (with the Innkeeper no less) to do. I went back to the original camp. I can "sleep" there but it doesn't replenish my vitality. I go online and get all sorts of answers. I spent two hours bumbling and flustered. I don't mind if solving the quests is obtuse, but if I cannot satisfy the basic motive to get to the cool part, well, I guess i'll play something else instead.

Very confusing game and I could not find a game guide to help me through it. Can't recommend it, I think it's a really bad game.

I bought this game the minute I saw it, after reading the positive reviews and thinking this sounds great, maybe it's similar to The life and suffering of sir brante, which is one of my all time favs, but sadly it was not. I really wanted to like it, but, right from the start, you get shoved into a world full of boring characters that do nothing but exposition dump on you with basically zero agency on the part of the player.
"I go left", "I open the door", "I continue".
Great, wonderful, "I exit game"

It's a solid game, just not for me. I wasn't ever really attached to any of the characters and the story was kinda strange for me. Like I said, the game is definitely solid, just not my thing.

I gave this game a fair shake. I really did. My Steam account says I played for 11 hours, but it felt like a lot more. This is probably the first game I've ever played that got me to stay up until 4 in the morning. I got into the story, it was a gripping setting with a lot of unique features, the characters were often intriguing, if not a bit one-dimensional; for my first foray into text-based RPGs, it was going pretty good. I could even look past the vulgarity and lack of tact in some of the dialogue. But then the writer had to shoehorn in the sodomy, and that's where I draw the line. You know what's compelling about a fantasy setting? A world full of creatures that are all dangerous in some way to humanity. A world that takes general conceptions of fantasy creatures--unicorns, dragons, goblins--and flips them on their heads, or morphs them in some way. You know what's not compelling? Having to read about children "with three parents" or people that "aren't men, though they were born with a prick [directly quoted from the game, mind you]." Just because you're writing fantasy doesn't mean you have to shove your sinful politics down your consumers' throats. A major disappointment.

One time I got a fantasy book from the library and it got recalled and I never read the ending. After 13 hours, this was my experience with Roadwarden. By my story end I solved no mysteries and failed the main quest because the arbitrary time limit ended the game before the story was done. A game about exploration punishes you for exploring.

The writing is not good. A few compelling set pieces are buried in an avalanche of boring exposition with forgettable characters that explain their backstories rather than show any agency or character. Maybe there's an interesting story here but in a the time it took to watch a full season of Game of Thrones plus one of the Lord of the Rings films, I couldn't find it. Play Disco Elysium or Planescape Torment or Choice of Robots. This is not worth your time.

Fun as a text adventure. But seems kind of buggy. Sometimes getting options/results I shouldn't have from decisions after leaving and returning to a place.
Most notably amount of people for a boat...that changed after leaving and returning without changing any other story stuff. And some that were come back later and decide just suddenly vanished, so changed ending options
...So can't really trust any decisions I made.

I really wanted to like this game, the premise is great, the atmosphere is good but there's little player agency. There are Few actual choices when you talk with people, which is most of what you do in this game.
Because you aren't really talking, there's nothing that resembles a real conversation taking place. No you just click the options to get one exposition and lengthy pages of texts one after another.

There's a lot of book in here with very little game. And as a book it is measured by the quality of its writing, and so I will do just that.
The writing is flowery and detailed, but is also awfully lengthy and rarely provides interesting bits of information, mystery or plots twists, there's almost no humor, there are no interesting people to root for, there's no romance, no companions, little immersion.

If you wish to experience a text based choices and consequences game, play Fallout 2, Planescape Torment Deadfire, Tyranny, Shadowrun Returns, Age of decadence, Colony Ship. Atom RPG and its sequel. The Banner Saga.

If you already player the games mentioned above and are familiar with more text based choice and consequences games, please let me know.

BORING
Your hero its too weak, and can be killed by very st*pid things
Im from Argentina. I faced much more dangeous enemies in real life

I really wanted to like this game. It seemed like it would be right up my alley. But after getting about 3 hours in, it started to feel like it was nothing but an endless interlinked series of fetch quests, none of which I could do because I was too broke and too low on stats. I looked up some advice for beginners and this was only confirmed. “Try going to X, get a Y, do that for a few in-game days, and hopefully you don’t get ambushed on the road, good luck!” Either that or, “Just try to do a quest that you know you can do right now, and see where it leads you.” Another 3 hours later, I’ve been running around the whole map for days, my in-game time limit is halfway up, and I’m no closer to even being able to START most of the quests.

All this is to say, I can see why people love this game so much, but it did everything in its power to bore and frustrate me. I did appreciate some of its aspects though, such as how merchants will often outright refuse to buy anything from you if they don't need any of it. Makes the world feel more believable.

5/10, didn't complete it.