The Road to Canterbury overview

Overview

The Road to Canterbury comes from Choice of Games and is published by Choice of Games. It arrived on Steam on Apr 26, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Road to Canterbury's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 23:22:48 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 81% positive across 16 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Road to Canterbury is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Road to Canterbury has sold up to 620 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,898. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Road to Canterbury overview details

The Road to Canterbury combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

May the best story win! Enter the medieval world of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where your journey, and the stories you tell, will change history. The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word interactive medieval adventure novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. London, 1375. The Black Prince of England is dying, and peace with France hangs in the balance. You are a young pauper on a secret mission. Join a pilgrimage to Canterbury with the powerful noblewoman Philippa de Roet, co-sister-in-law to the Black Prince, and Philippa's husband, Geoffrey Chaucer himself, the customs agent, spy, and occasional poet. Your mission is to persuade Philippa to change the course of history. You'll fight raiders and knights, aid or foil an assassin, fire up a peasants' revolt, and change your luck for the better or worse. And of course, there's a storytelling contest with a big prize--one you intend to win. Play as male, female or non-binary, and as gay, straight, bi, asexual and/or aromantic Travel the ancient route of Watling Street from Southwark to Canterbury Win a prize in the storytelling contest A quest, a joust, a trial by combat? All in a week's work Persuade an influential noblewoman to change her politics Find love with a knight, a squire, or a traveler from distant lands Become a knight, or the head of an abbey, or a powerful player in London's merchant guilds Solve the mystery that haunts your family Declare your loyalty to…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Road to Canterbury is listed as a game with $5.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 23:22:48 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 81% positive reviews.

Overview tags

AdventureIndieRPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-Based

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Support and legal notes

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