[a][1] Kingsway is a fantasy role-playing video game presented through the interface of a 1990s operating system, similar to Windows 95.

[2] Morrish and Adult Swim had collaborated previously on his shooter game Super Puzzle Platformer (2013).

He also noted Lucas Pope's dystopian puzzle video game Papers, Please (2013) as a particular inspiration for his first prototype of Kingsway.

Morrish applied this philosophy of creating clutter by making the player have to manage multiple window elements, popups, files and folders.

[10] Alice O'Connor of Rock, Paper, Shotgun compared Kingsway to the '90s desktop versions of Indiana Jones and Star Wars.