In the world ofRoadwarden, there’s no grinding for XP or mindless loot-crafting treadmill.
Knowledge, empathy and insight are worth far more than material wealth or wielding the shiniest axe.
Quests can hinge on something as minute as your ear for dialects or knowing the correct form of address.
And each village along the trail is a world in itself.
There’s no one-size-fits-all description of every last person or place in Windy Meadow.
As in Roadwarden, it depends who you’re talking to.
- and a few scenes of gruesome bloodshed.
But Windy Meadow often seems less interested in these grand dramatic stakes than in cultivating smaller, inter-personal dynamics.
And then there are conversations that offer windows on the game’s wider setting, Viaticum.
I’m especially enjoying learning to be a bard.
The new version of Windy Meadow isavailable now on Steam.
There’s a demo, if your curiosity has been piqued.
