The King Is Watching is a dangerous game for my time, and I’ve already sunk more hours into it than I care to admit. It’s fun, polished, and endlessly entertaining, but it’s missing some quality-of-life features, which I hope to see added in future updates.
Currently, you can’t reset your progress in The King Is Watching, for which you’ll need to access the save file location on PC.
The King Is Watching Save File Location
Inside the Release folder, you’ll find several data files, each tracking different parts of your progress. One of these is challenges, progress, and general save data. The main folder includes a copy of any screenshots you’ve taken as well. For the sake of ease, I recommend copying the entire “The_king_is_watching_steam” folder if you want to move around your files.
You can access the same location by entering the following address in Windows Explorer, or Windows Run:
Reset Progress in The King is Watching
Unfortunately, the game doesn’t have an in-game option to reset progress, which is why deleting the save files is the way to do it. However, since The King is Watching has support for Steam Cloud, you want to disable it first before deleting the save files.
That’s all you have to do. I hope that the developers consider adding a reset progress option in an update or the ability to create multiple progress profiles. It’s a pretty common feature in many roguelikes, and, oddly, it’s missing here.
The developers haveconfirmed that the ability to save midgame is coming, and I hope that more quality-of-life improvements are planned as well.
Ali Hashmi
Ali has been writing about video games for the past six years and is always on the lookout for the next indie game to obsess over and recommend to everyone in sight. When he isn’t spending an unhealthy amount of time in Slay the Spire, he’s probably trying out yet another retro-shooter or playing Dark Souls for the 50th time.
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