Kingsway review — an addictive RPG with deadly pop-up windows

It’s hard to describe the way Kingsway descends into chaos. As I mentioned in my preview from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June, it takes all the usual role-playing game features and skins them in a retro Windows 95-esque operating system.

The entire game takes place in this reproduction of the old OS, repurposing things like your email, progress bars, and internet browser. Everything’s in windows — inventory, world map, character stats, enemies — and desktop organization becomes a matter of life or death. It might sound like an office worker’s nightmare, and it kind of is — but in a good way.