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Road Not Taken cover art

Road Not Taken

Spry Fox · 2014-08-05

SteamPlayStation Store

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 05, 2014 (Mac), Aug 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 05, 2014 (PlayStation 4), Jul 27, 2016 (iOS)

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.

0
playing now
80%
positive of 357 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Road Not Taken is an independent video game developed by Spry Fox for PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android. In a take on the Robert Frost poem of the same name, the game is described as being about life's surprises, both positive and negative.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.9k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 357 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2020-10-29) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-04-17 — best price $14.992015-05-08 — best price $8.992015-05-22 — best price $14.992015-08-28 — best price $9.742015-09-11 — best price $14.992015-12-23 — best price $3.742016-02-01 — best price $14.992016-04-11 — best price $2.992016-05-23 — best price $14.992016-09-08 — best price $4.492016-11-25 — best price $5.992017-01-02 — best price $14.992017-05-11 — best price $5.992017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $7.492018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-06-21 — best price $3.742018-09-13 — best price $14.992018-12-21 — best price $5.992019-07-10 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $7.492020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $5.242021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-10-28 — best price $4.492021-12-01 — best price $14.992022-01-14 — best price $5.992022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-11-22 — best price $5.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-06-29 — best price $4.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $3.742025-03-20 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Player tags

CuteIndiePuzzleAdventureDifficultRogue-likeTurn-BasedAtmosphericSingleplayerFemale Protagonist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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