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8.0Kingsway goes beyond being just a throwback to the past, and proves itself an entertaining game in its own right.
Kingsway
Andrew Morrish · Jul 18, 2017
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Kingsway is the #1 operating system for daily tasks such as skeleton smashing and loot-organizing. Trouble sorting through all your potions and swords? Don\'t worry! Kingsway can help you manage, and with an easy to use interface you\'ll have time leftover for a peaceful stroll through the underworld.
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- Game Informer7.8The gimmick of Kingsway is rather glorious, but the grandeur fades quickly as you take up your sword and staff for the third or forth completion run. The novelty of Kingsway is quite potent, but it just doesn’t have any staying power.
- Hey Poor Player8.0I’ve played several times over four or five hours total and never gotten anywhere close to endgame due to so many deaths. And yet, as a masochist always does, I come back for more pain and suffering. I can’t stop playing this game, no matter how loud, angry, and vulgar I get with each death. I definitely recommend it for anyone fond of 1980’s and 1990’s RPGs for the pure difficulty alone, and the 16-bit graphics. This is an old school game set in an old school operating system, but made for a modern, nostalgic audience. I give this game a very solid 4 out of 5. Kingsway is available right now on Steam for $9.99 from Adult Swim Games.
- Polygon8.0Like all successful pieces of nostalgia, Kingsway knows the adventure on the screen is less important than the adventure in your mind.
- VentureBeat8.5It kind of surprised me that Kingsway didn’t go in a more overtly meta direction. I was expecting the desktop to be taken over by a virus at some point or to break the fourth wall, like in Pony Island or I’m Scared: A Pixelated Nightmare. But I liked that it was a more straightforward approach, that it went all-in on the premise that this is an RPG that you somehow interact with using an OS.
- CGMagazine7.0A fun procedurally generated rpg adventure with a punishing difficulty that will require multiple playthroughs.
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