Roadwarden
BANGER · RPG · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $10.99.
- Length
- 12h 29.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 5,205 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 42 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Citizen Sleeper ($5.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79).
More about Roadwarden
83 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 541 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 253 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12 hours; clearing it takes 30, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Roadwarden scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1155970/roadwardenReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.