Kingsway

Really awesome, comfy RPG roguelike - but MAN I wish it had more content. A run is ~2 hours long, and once you've finished 2-3 runs you've basically seen everything this game has to offer aside from some alternate endings. (note: I've played way more than 6 hours on someone else's account) Quests are repeated between each run, dungeons have basically no variance, the bosses are all the same, etc. Also, once you understand the "meta", it's basically impossible to lose and the game isn't that tough at all. Kingsway is basically a 10/10, it's just short. The experience of playing on an old OS is superb and really well designed. Praying for a sequel some day, but it's looking unlikely because it's been 9 years since Kingsway came out. I might end up making a game similar to this myself some day.

"No" is perhaps harsh. The theming is incredibly charming. I liked the main gimmick of it. But the main gameplay loop seems to quickly get tedious / trivialized in a successful run: I don't think I will keep playing more of it.

Great execution and a novel idea with this game. It's comfy, addicting and has unique mechanics in a familiar environment. Personal 9/10, sure there isn't infinite content and you can master the game within a day or two, but it's a dope experience. Played this years ago and didn't think to review until a flood of fond memories came back.

worth the price, i played this game back in 2018 when it was pretty barebones, makes me happy to see how far the game went since then, still play it from time to time to this day

You start the game thinking, "This is a nice little silly RPG style game. I'll be done in 30." 2 days later you are fighting Satan with a beastkin build and politely yelling, "Who's the real monster?" You will put more hours into it than the time it takes to beat it suggests 10/10 Adult Swim is GOAT'd.

Kingsway is a fun take on a roguelike, where the game takes place inside a fictional operating system, while also being a game with an arbitrary time limit enforced by lore-backed mechanics that ramp up instead of "timer is done you're dead xoxo". I really liked how combat works! Enemies spawn as pop-up windows, which move in patterns that evoke the manner in which that enemy would move, a shambling corpse inches around, while an assassin may vanish! I really enjoyed finding a build that let me take combat over my knee and break it in two! :D The art style is perfect too! There's not a wasted polygon, the dev even integrated the games volume control into the faux OS! I love that!! My only complaint is I wish I had a few more options in character creation and a Permanent unlock for more than one gift/more than one memento. Like, if a winning character could pass on TWO mementos for winning instead of one. If you think the game looks like it MIGHT be fun for you, grab it! There's many classes available right off the bat, give it a few runs trying things out!! :D