- Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Drama
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. Randomly generated levels deliver a limitless supply of possibilities to explore and challenges to overcome. Your actions will influence not only your own story, but that of the villagers you hope to befriend and the town you call home.
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Character
Grave, earnest, contemporary and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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KotakuStephen TotiloAug 2014It looks like a cute fairy tale, but this is a turn-based game that's thorny with challenge and packed with an incredible number of gameplay secrets.
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ZTGDSophie HallidayAug 20148.5/10The combination of the small decisions and details that go into tackling each level, alongside the grander themes of opportunities gained and lost, is a quality that makes Road Not Taken a cut above most puzzle games.
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GameCrateT.J. LambertAug 20148.3/10Road Not Taken has all the enjoyable staples of a Roguelike game and presents them well. The built-in replay value is high, and the variables of villagers, charms, banned obstacles, and the woods themselves ensure a different game every time you play. More than once I found myself stuck without the energy to go on, and even knowing that I could start again, I was annoyed to be losing my progress so often. A checkpoint system in the form of an altar helps this problem, for which I was very grateful.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunJohn WalkerAug 2014It's unquestionably smart, almost intolerably cute, and splendidly novel. I'm not quite convinced the balancing is right, and think the levels become too cluttered, too quickly. But it remains completely lovely to play despite it.
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Hardcore GamerMatt WhittakerAug 20143/5Road Not Taken is a decidedly "okay" experience, as its strategic gameplay is fundamentally flawed from the very beginning. Matching puzzles and roguelike mechanics make for an annoying combination, as the core gameplay isn't exciting enough to bring players back for more.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
- Developer
- Spry Fox
- Publisher
- Spry Fox
- Released
- August 5, 2014
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Adobe AIR
IGDB rating 6.2/10 from 9 ratings.
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