# The Road to Canterbury

Summer DB entity ID: 1f2d6928\-6135\-41aa\-9496\-46ebfe76c680

Steam App ID: 849560

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 England or to France and determine the outcome of the Hundred Years' War   The Hundred Years' war is heating up: will you stoke the flames on the Road to Canterbury?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Apr 26, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/849560/ss\_a1cea83259ee13dc3e6d98544d8339ec080e2030\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734033353, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/849560/ss\_c94de33a73662cee6df07f9714ba389c7cde646b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734033353, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/849560/ss\_1ed4075d61c57e624710ea5f48a077f9783d7f01\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734033353, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/849560/ss\_bdd57840923f1e713d2b247664499237e7fdbeab\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734033353, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/849560/ss\_aae100ee7c36a9deb86760b7b21f118a1227f403\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734033353

- Price: 599 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 16

- Steam positive reviews: 13

- Steam negative reviews: 3

- Steam positive percentage: 81.25%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T12:59:01\.817925\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T12:59:05\.116921\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T12:59:04\.778827\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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