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The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word, text-based interactive adventure set in the medieval world of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. You play a young pauper on a secret mission, making choices that shape the story. In London in 1375, the Black Prince of England is dying and peace with France is at stake.

The pilgrimage

You travel with Philippa de Roet, a powerful noblewoman and co-sister-in-law to the Black Prince, and her husband Geoffrey Chaucer, a customs agent, spy and occasional poet. Your mission is to persuade Philippa to change the course of history. The journey follows the ancient route of Watling Street from Southwark to Canterbury.

Along the way, you can fight raiders and knights, help or thwart an assassin, spark a peasants’ revolt and take part in a quest, a joust or a trial by combat. You can also enter a storytelling contest and try to win its prize.

Choices and outcomes

Your choices can change your fortunes for better or worse, shape your family’s mystery and determine whether you support England or France—and the outcome of the Hundred Years’ War. You can seek love with a knight, a squire or a traveler from distant lands, and pursue a future as a knight, head of an abbey or influential member of London’s merchant guilds.

You can play as male, female or non-binary, and choose to be gay, straight, bi, asexual and/or aromantic.