Play King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Online

Washed up on a cursed island where minotaurs haggle and Death challenges you to chess—you’ll die a lot, but each puzzle feels like cracking open a dark fairy tale. The voice acting’s weirdly great, and you can brute-force logic or lean into the story’s strangeness.

Developer: Sierra On-Line, Inc.

Released: 1992

File size: 11.36 MB

Game Overview

King’s Quest VI is one of those games that sticks with you—partly because of how gorgeous it looks, partly because of how many times you’ll accidentally get yourself killed. You play as Prince Alexander, washed ashore after a storm, and suddenly you’re unraveling a conspiracy in this weird, broken kingdom where every island feels like its own little fairy tale gone wrong. One minute you’re bargaining with a minotaur, the next you’re sneaking past a literal death incarnate who just wants to play chess.

The puzzles are tough but fair (mostly), and the game actually lets you choose how to tackle the second half—either by brute-forcing your way through logic or leaning into the story’s more whimsical side. And yeah, the voice acting is shockingly good for the '90s—Robby Benson as Alexander somehow makes "climbing a beanstalk" sound dramatic. Just save often, because the game has zero mercy for wrong choices. You’ll know what I mean when you meet the mermaid.

It’s the last King’s Quest that really feels like the classic Sierra adventures, before everything shifted. If you’ve got the patience for old-school pixel hunting and some truly bizarre logic puzzles, it’s worth every minute.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".