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Sunday, 19 July 2026

A King For A Day

Here it is! A King For A Day! Hooray!

Now if you decide you are brave enough to decide to play this little historical game then I congratulate you - go into this little project of mine with LOW expectations, or preferably NO expectations! My game is NOT going to change the gaming industry - it is NOTHING like Total War or Crusader kings, sorry.

I drew a lot of inspiration from other games before I started building A King For A Day.

I love the medieval strategy and adventure games of yore. Here is a little list of my favourites:

Lords of the Realm

Lords of the Realm 2

Conqueror A.D. 1086

Kingmaker

Quest for the Longbow

Castles

Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

Defender of the Crown

I remember waiting years for Lords of the realm 3 to finally release...

O yes! I remember that one...

There is a reason IT did not make it on the list.

Lords of the Realm fans reading this will know what I mean...

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!??

Anyway, I think I might have told this little story before in another post - but I used to play this game on my old DOS based PC called - Grail Quest. It is a text based adventure game where you play as Percival charged by King Arthur with a quest to seek the Holy Grail. Grail Quest is a very old school style adventure game. You move around different scenes of medieval Britain, looking for items, speaking to people, solving puzzles.

I used to love all the little scenes of Britain as you moved around, most of them were rendered photographs of real locations, like Stonehenge, and the Tower of London.

It got my imagination fired up I tell you!

I used to think to myself: "Wouldn't it be great if I was the King in this game, marching around Britain collecting resources and fighting battles? O yes that would be great! And I could have my own castle and manage things... Marvellous stuff! It is good to be the king!"

And so all these years later I went ahead and built that game and here it is:

A King For A Day V1.0 is available and playable here by clicking the image below:

Or play instantly by clicking the following link: ▶️A King For A Day

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Play Give 'em Hell
Play Elfin Quest
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Thursday, 18 June 2026

A King For A Day (UPDATE)

Yes. This game is still in development! I will be honest... The other games - Scare Them Soulless, and Start Punks HAVE been abandoned. They just didn't work out. But I have always been passionate about a Medieval King game.

So A KING FOR A DAY is on it sway. It will NOT be the game I original envisioned it to be. It will not be the next Defender of the Crown! Sorry about that... The original version of this game failed badly.

Instead a I opted for a more simpler approach - an arcade style game that can be played and enjoyed in approx five to ten mins... If the player is generous. Basically a bit of fun.

In my new version of the game you literally get to be a king for a day.

You move about Britain, beat people up, make money, crush your enemies - you basically get to be the king. You get to tour around Britain as well (and a bit of France). You will collect resources to help you vanquish your foes. But the game WILL be nothing more or less than a fun browser game to kill, as I mentioned before, a handful of minutes. Just a bit of fun. I grew up playing old medieval war games on the PC - the aforementioned Defender of the Crown, Kingmaker, Conqueror A.D. 1086, and my favourite of ALL time without ANY quarrels the first two Lords of the Ream Games. I LOVED the later, played them like mad. I wanted to rebuild them. I couldn't do it, not yet anway.

I did have some inspiration for A King For A Day. There used to be a game for DOS I played a lot, probably older than all the titles I just mentioned, I am sure, and it was called Grail Quest - 1989 interactive fiction graphic adventure game published by Artworx.

I played this a lot. It was an adventure game where you wandered around Britain (after you found your horse and managed to saddle it without it running away from you!) and you visited many of the famous locals of Arthurian Britain EVEN The Tower of London which I am sure was built after the Age of King Arthur. But o well! Never mind.

I remember playing this game as a child, roaming around the British isles and thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if I was the king and I ruled the land and could give out orders and fight foes?" Well... That is what I have tried to build! Whether I succeeded or failed folks will no when A King For A Day finally releases...

...releases... sometime in the near distant future hopefully this!

Best wishes

SWW