Naked Ambition

I don't think my time has ever been so egregiously wasted. 10 weeks in, the princess goes into a forest, fail a stat check, and is sexually assaulted. That sucks, shouldn't do that again. 30 weeks in, she returns to that forest, fails a stat check, and gets her throat cut. Why did she return to that forest? Why did she go alone, without a guard, especially considering she'd already convinced an advisor to be a bodyguard/lady protectress? Why doesn't the developer use the Signs feature to determine what actions the princess does on her free week; does it make sense that a intelligent, demon-channeling princess would go skipping into the woods where she was sexually assaulted a few months prior?

This game is almost enjoyable, and I think the idea of having only influence on what choices the protagonist makes, rather than making them yourself, is interesting. Sadly, the obnoxious RNG, nonsensical (not all the time, but far too often) decision making, and the, frankly, juvenile prevention by the developer of reloading saves in the hopes that the princess makes different decisions all make this game a chore to play.

Improvements: Remove the RNG element of the princess' sign card selection: if she has the proper card, she plays it. You (dev) could balance this by further limiting the number of sign cards that be stored. This emphasizes more strategy and attention-paying on the players' part, as they can better plan for success by taking note of different advisors personalities and the calendar dates on which meetings with them take place. No more having 4 thoughtful cards and 3 cheerful cards and rolling any and every other card in your deck when you needed just one thoughtful. Also, make reloading saves useful for more than just passing stat checks. You might think savescumming is lame, but wouldn't you rather people replay your game, albeit in a way you dislike, rather than never playing again out of frustration?

It's an interesting game in the same vein as Princess Maker, but the heavy RNG really kinda ruins it. The game regularly places you in situations where it really feels like you had absolutely no choice that could've saved you, or situations where you'll be three hours into a playthrough only to LITERALLY DIE because you were a few points shy on one of the game's 14 skills, and the overall feeling genuinely does give the impression that you need to plan out the exact points and where you put them months in advance, but not in any way that makes sense. For example, you can't compensate for being bad at one thing by being better at other things, and despite the game telling you to pick which people to woo and which ones to ignore because you can't please all of them, some of them will kill the princess if she doesn't please them and the game gives you no indication as to who it will be or when it might happen.

Overall, it's an interesting approach to a niche genre, but the level of RNG coupled with the lack of guidance and the fact that one mistake can throw hours of play right out the window without warning just adds a level of completely unnecessary frustration.

LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE ON ANDROID

The "feature" that you can't redo card choices with saves means you will constantly be unable to choose your cards when you're supposed to, since the game has hair trigger touch sensitivity. Loading could fix that but the dev made that impossible, forcing us to New Game every time the game does this.

0/10 Don't put in features that completely remove player agency if you're not going to have safety measures in place.

I really enjoyed this game. It reminded me of "Long Live the Queen" and the Princess Maker games.

I would have liked to see more of the princess in a miniskirt

What happened to this game? I remember when it first came out it was super hype but there haven't been any updates since :(

I feel like there's something about the card system that I'm not understanding. The Princess' decisions never match any of the cards that pop up. My deck is entirely filled with Lustful cards (and one Exhibitionist card), and yet her decisions always align with one of the other cards (Cheerful, Thoughtful, etc.), even though those cards aren't even there. I understand that the Princess makes her own decisions, but as far as I know those decisions are supposed to be based on the deck that you "build" for her. Otherwise, the deck has no purpose.

This is a very unique game, i've never seen one that plays quite like this. I think the idea of the cards is really neat, and the way that you get more skills to combine and select cards the further you get is really cool! 

However, the card system also makes some checks feel extremely unfair. When I have 5 of a card in my deck, its really frustrating to not have it come up in a check, which was my only chance to gain favor with someone in an interaction. 

Speaking of which, I feel like the beginning when the counsel is introduced, it feels very much like you'll have pretty equal chances of seeing all of them. I'm not sure if I just imagined it, but I feel like there are some of those characters that came up over and over again, and the ones I wanted highest favor with are generally the ones I barely got to see. Plus, for some of them, it literally doesn't matter if you have high scores in some of their skills. Peyton's favor is almost completely reliant on if you draw a white card, for example. And if you dont, every interaction with him is ruined. 

Also a lot of the checks you have to pass all three skill checks in order to gain favor. Which also feels kinda unfair. In one interaction with the general i passed every check but the faith check and my favor still went down, even though the other 4 checks I passed. Especially in a game where you have to balance what skills you learn to gain the favor of several different people, I just feel like thats punishing for no reason? 

Also I wish we got to see more of the Princess's brother. I would like to see what makes him supposedly more competent than her, other than his y chromosome. But I just think that would be more interesting as well, to see that you actually have a competent opponent here and not just your little bitch of a brother who's only going to win because he's a man. 

If you're considering playing this game for the sexual aspect, please don't be fooled by the cover image of a dominant lesbian princess. At least in my run, all the sexual encounters were with men, except for the player character. Which even then, I did not feel like those scenes were as animated or thought out as the ones with the guys. If you want to see her fuck creepy old men, go ahead and level her corruption. But romance and sex options in this game are really difficult to steer because you don't really get to make the decisions. 

If there is a way to get more girl on girl content, somebody please let me know, because watching her suck the vizirs dick isn't exactly the ideal of sexy to me. 

Overall the game is really good and really interesting, but a little too difficult for me. Of course I didn't expect to win on my first try, but to have favor with basically nobody because I need all their skills leveled AND to by chance draw the right card- well, that just didn't really feel balanced to me. 

I have so far really loved the game. It’s almost therapeutic when you know what to do, it’s strategic without getting frustrating. It’s easy to study and collect stats and cards without overworking the princess. However, the only thing that doesn’t make sense to me is that sometimes I will have the required card for a situation in my deck but it won’t appear in the response deck causing me to lose favour and affection. Is there something I’m doing wrong or is that supposed to happen?

This some good game ngl. Wish it got some kind of guide for each scene in the gallery for those that aren't unlocked yet. 

Wow the story and mechanics and artstyle here are all things I haven't seen it's like in the dirty game space, or any game space. This is fantastic.

There is actually so much more depth to the mechanics here than a simple cyoa story. With the random encounters I don't know how many I've missed. Between that and pursuing a different advice to the princess there are a lot of reasons to replay this game.

Also, the music fits the old school adventure games the art is based on super well.

My only trouble is that at the tail end of my first playthrough I got a crash and I can't avoid this predetermined moment so I am going to have to play through again. Also at some point my encounters with Maria returned purely to the first scene's handholding, though I don't know if that's a bug or part of the mechanics that I wasn't doing a good job with.

Despite that I definitely recommend checking this game out, with the writing and characters and art and plots. A lot of work has gone into this. I'm truly shocked such a long game is free.

Though fyi to anyone looking for a quickie this one is a slowburn. But entirely worth.

@developer, would you like an image of the unity crash report I got? Is that helpful?

I've been trying to play your games for awhile but none of them work for me they start then crash after leaving the title screen I use a moto g power