Road Not Taken
Skip · Roguelike · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hour
- $2.14/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 357
- Critics
- 75 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 51% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 7h
- To 100%
- 24.5h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 October 2020
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 47% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 45 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Blue Prince ($29.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats DemonCrawl ($14.99, scores 43).
More about Road Not Taken
HowLongToBeat players log 7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 25, 3.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is my gold standard for a good indie game; good mechanics, good story, good writing and a cute pithy ending that loops back around and makes sense in the frame of the story. I find myself wanting to know more about the world. Hidden gem honestly.
So, what to say and not to sound bitter… I came back to this game after almost 10 years - I put the game on hiatus in 2016. All I could remember about it was that it quickly became rather hard… well, still a valid point. Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game with charming visuals and frustratingly increasing difficulty. We play as a lone ranger rescupedling lost children from a nearby forest after the end of...
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About the game
Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Road Not Taken scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/293740/road-not-takenReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.