Journey of the Prairie King

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Journey of the Prairie King is a game playable on the arcade machine in The Saloon. Abigail also possesses a console version of the game that she will play with you during an event once you have raised your relationship level with her.

Once the player finds enough lost books, a book will be available in the northern end of the library that reads,

"Journey of the Prairie King -- The Smash Hit Video Game! Did you know? Anyone who beats ' Journey of the Prairie King' is automatically entered into a drawing for a special prize! Did you know? The developer has stated that the protagonist is based on a real-life character... A true cowboy hero from a prairie-island in the Gem Sea!"

Gameplay consists of a top-down shooter. Movement keys move the character and the arrow keys shoot. Shots can also be fired diagonally by combining two movement keys. There are three zones, beginning in a desert, then moving to a forest, and finally to a castle.

As you kill enemies, they have a chance to drop power-ups that have various effects to help you through the level or coins. Luck from the Fortune Teller and food bonus affects the drop rate of power-ups and coins. As you pick up power-ups, they are stored in the box in the top-left corner. If you collect a power-up while one is stored in this box, it will automatically be consumed and you gain the effects. The powerups are as follows.

Tombstone - A bolt of lightning strikes your character, turning you into a zombie for a brief amount of time. You gain movement speed and kill on contact, enemies flee from you, and a brief sound clip plays in the background. This form lasts as long as the music plays. You can still shoot as normal in this form. After the music stops, you return to normal.

Extra Life - Looks like the characters head. Adds one to your life total. (Note: Game Over occurs at -1 lives.)

Skull Bomb - Instantly kills all enemies on-screen. Enemies killed like this still have a chance to drop upgrades.

Coffee - Increases your movement speed.

Wheel - Your shots fire in all possible directions at once.

Shotgun - You fire three bullets at once in a cone in the direction you fire.

Machinegun - Your fire-rate increases to maximum; your bullets come out in a hose-like fashion.

Red Box - Teleports your character to a random spot on-screen and gives your character stealth. While stealthed, enemies will stand still with question-marks above their head. Enemies will continue to spawn, building up inside the spawn zones.

Star - Increases your fire-rate to maximum, increases your movement speed, and causes you to fire in a cone.

Every two levels, a shopkeeper will walk in from the topmost enemy-spawning zone. You pay for these upgrades with the coins collected as power-ups. The coins come in 1x and 5x denominations, the 5x coins being very rare.

Boots- Upgrade movement speed similar to the coffee item.

Gun- Increases attack speed

Ammo Crate- Increase attack damage (2x each it seems); makes Mushrooms from Zone 2 1HKO and with a second upgrade does the same to Mummies in the final world.