Keepwatch key art: the hero in black and gold armor strikes at a Viking and a Roman soldier on a dirt road, a castle town behind them and a dark eclipse over a distant keep.
press kit · barsplay

A hero who lives above your taskbar.

Keepwatch is an idle auto-battler RPG that quietly runs on your desktop. Build your camp, gear up your one and only hero, and let them fight while you get back to work.

Factsheet
Title
Keepwatch: Idle Kingdom RPG
Developer
Barsplay
Publisher
Barsplay
Release
Coming soon
Platform
Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit (Steam)
Demo
Free on Steam
Languages
English, Turkish, German, French, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
Genre
Idle auto-battler, desktop companion, base building, crafting
Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/5073820
Discord
discord.gg/dCAD9yQsAf
Press contact
press@barsplay.online
about the game

A medieval kingdom in a strip of your screen

Keepwatch lives right above the Windows taskbar. You command a single hero, but not directly: they wander, work, grow and fight incoming enemies on their own. Your job is to grow the camp, make the gear and skill decisions, and step in at the moments that matter.

By day the hero gathers wood, stone and iron and builds up the camp. When night falls, enemy waves march in and the hero fights them automatically. What decides the outcome is your preparation: the armor you forged, the weapon you risked upgrading, and the path you carved through the skill tree.

  • Never steals focus. The whole game runs in a thin strip above the taskbar while you work.
  • Five buildings, ten tiers each. House, Ironsmith, Kitchen, Workshop and Vault.
  • Upgrades with real risk. Past a third of an item's cap it can fail; past half it can burn. A pity counter adds +7% per failure.
  • Three tiers, ten cultures. Read the enemy's silhouette, not a health bar.
  • Skill tree, offline progress, expeditions. The camp keeps working while the game is closed.
screenshots · 1920×1080

In the game

Every panel opens above the strip, over whatever is on your desktop.

The hero walks past a stone castle town along the bottom of the desktop.
The strip. The kingdom runs along the bottom of the screen.
Skill tree panel with five branches and the hero's stats card.
Skill tree. 174 nodes across the branches.
Inventory panel showing equipment slots, the hero preview and the bag grid.
Inventory. Modular armor changes the hero's look piece by piece.
Settlement panel listing House, Ironsmith, Kitchen, Workshop and Vault upgrades.
Settlement. Five buildings with ten tiers each.
Workbench crafting panel with recipe slots and a progress bar.
Workbench. Craft clothing, bags and potions.
Open recipe book listing weapon and armor recipes.
Recipe book. Weapon and armor recipes.
Storage panel with the bag and vault grids.
Storage. Bag and vault.
The camp with a tent and campfire at the edge of the screen.
Camp. Where every day starts.
gameplay clip · mp4

Morning on the road

The hero sets out from camp in the morning and takes on whatever the road brings. None of it is steered by hand; the outcome comes from gear and skills chosen earlier.

enemies

Three tiers, ten cultures

Culture is cosmetic. It never changes stats or behavior, so the only thing to read off an enemy is its silhouette.

RaiderLight, fast, unarmored.
SoldierPartial armor, often a shield.
ChampionFully armored, slow, hits hard.
ArabianBritishChineseFrankHoly RomanIberianJapaneseRomanTurkishViking
The mustached hero raises his sword against a Chinese spearman, a Roman legionary and a red-bearded Viking on a dirt road below a dark eclipse.
Chinese, Roman and Viking raiders on the road to the keep.
The hero in black and gold armor raises his sword while a Viking and a Roman charge in behind him.
the hero

One hero, no classes

There is a single archetype. What makes a build is the skill tree and the gear: up to eighteen armor sets per slot and ten weapon levels, each with its own model.

logo & key art

Brand assets

Transparent PNGs, the emblem and full-resolution key art are in the press kit archive.

Keepwatch: Idle Kingdom RPG logo in gold lettering under a small tower emblem.
Keepwatch tower emblem icon on a crimson disc.

The tower from the logo doubles as the app and community icon.

Vertical Steam capsule with the logo above the hero.
Main Steam capsule: logo top left, the hero fighting a Viking and a Roman.
Main capsule, 1232×706
Wide key art without logo showing the hero and three enemies on the road.
Library hero, 3840×1240, no logo
archive contents

What's in the kit

01 LogoTransparent logo, dark and light plates, emblem, 512 px icon
02 Key art1920×1080 with and without logo, wide and portrait versions, logo banner
03 ScreenshotsEight in-game shots at 1920×1080
04 VideoSix short gameplay clips, H.264 MP4
05 Steam capsulesStore and library capsules at Steam sizes
FactsheetEnglish factsheet and Turkish summary as Markdown