In this adventure, monsters are pop-up windows, quests are emails, and your backpack is a messy file folder. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Kingsway looks like an operating system, but it's actually a role-playing game (OSRPG).
What Makes Kingsway Unique?
Andrew Morrish is an independent developer currently working on Kingsway, an upcoming role-playing game for Windows. What stands out is that Kingsway looks like an operating system but plays like an RPG, with pop-up monsters, email quests, and a messy file folder as your inventory. The game runs on a simulated OS—basically a primitive Windows or macOS—that manages the adventure. Each playthrough generates a random world, and death is permanent.
Exploring the World Navigator
The adventure of Kingsway takes you through the King's lands via the World Navigator window, where you slay monsters that appear on your desktop. The easy-to-use interface leaves you time to stroll through the underworld, where dragging windows is part of daily tasks, such as fighting a malevolent skeleton or sorting your potions and swords. Essentially, you customize your desktop to optimize workflow. Saving the world from a horrible monster threatening the kingdom is just one benefit of being a well-organized worker.
Customization and Release
You can organize the interface to suit your playstyle. Kingsway offers several character types, each with unique abilities, and you can choose to be good or evil—helping fellow adventurers, defeating powerful monsters, or stealing and murdering your way to the top. Developed by Andrew Morrish, Kingsway will be available on Windows. A concrete release date hasn't been announced yet, but it's expected to hit Steam in the third quarter of 2017. The official site is Kingsway.
