Regional map: a road network annotated by what each stop provides

About this game

Developer: Moral Anxiety Studio · Publisher: Assemble Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

Roadwarden's map is a survival planner disguised as a road drawing. Where most RPG maps mark places by name and faction, this one marks them by what they let you do, sleep, eat, trade, fish, because in a game about travelling a hostile peninsula on foot, a stop's value is its services and its travel time, and the card states both ('Travel time: 2:45') before you commit to the road. The key teaches the icon language once, at left, and every location card reuses it, so a glance at the card's icon row tells you whether the inn is worth the walk. Frame at about 0:02 in the Release Trailer (Steam; manual extraction).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-nodes map-icons location-label detail-card

Components

Parts on screen.

Map Marker

Screen inventory

• the map itself is a single winding road across a dark field, drawn in the same pixel style as the scenes: a palisade settlement at top, a dead tree, a walled inn, a chapel, a dolmen, each a tiny illustration rather than a pin, with three large pale arrows at the north end marking exits the map scrolls toward
• the left edge is a Map Key that defines places by service, not by name: Nighttime shelter, Daytime rest, Meals or supplies, Trader, Tailor, Mundane job, Safe water source, Fishing spot, each with its own small icon, so the map is read as a survival checklist before it is read as geography
• a hovered location opens a detail card at bottom right: 'Pelt of the North, A massive inn surrounded by a wall. A shelter from monsters and highwaymen. Travel time: 2:45', with the same service icons repeated in miniature above the description, tying the card back to the key
• the only other chrome is a single curved back-arrow button at top right; there are no menus, no player marker, no coordinates, the map's information is the road, the key and the card, nothing else

Top 3 colors

#0d283e 76%#0f283e 10%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Moral Anxiety Studio / Assemble Entertainment, Roadwarden screenshot: Steam trailer (Release Trailer), Moral Anxiety Studio, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Assemble Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-28. verified 2026-10-28: manual extraction candidates/manual-map-1p5.png @ 1.5s in the Release Trailer, MD5 3d8cce9f5a6e3a4421348782003292e1, from the verified-clean Steam download (42,212,603 B, MD5 e622473ed8a1518a8b2606f6c0c47dce; full decode to null with -v error, exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the full Map Key, the road network, the Pelt of the North card and its travel time legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-28 via web search for an Assemble Entertainment screenshot/video policy); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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