Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance

Overall I enjoyed this Choice of Games entry. It is billed as a 'romance', but is really about power and intrigue. I love the power and intrigue part, but if you come into the game wanting romance there really aren't any good choices...especially if you play as a male protagonist. I found it much easier to complete the game as a conniving, female than as a romance seeking male. Also, I didn't feel as though my choice to be a heterosexual male was respected by the authors as I was still presented with strange homosexual relationship options out of the blue with people I thought were just friends. It is a good game, but somewhat flawed, but the courtly politics and intrigue were on-point. I give this game a 7 out of 10.

10/10 would be executed for an affair again

You can be gay and romance a dashing (and vengeful) King/Queen which really should be enough to recommend it on, but one of the sad endings where my character survived but lost their beloved had me crying and I'm still emotional over it now so 10/10 would rec and also cry over again. (If royalty and loyalty *aren't* two of your favourite things in stories, you can totally turn on your royal lover too if you want.) (And the Monarch cheating on you depends entirely on your own choices and is hardly out of left field considering the game literally starts with you stealing them from their spouse. Mine was so in love with me he didn't cheat and didn't believe any of the fabricated rumours I had either :'))

Romance? check. Adventure? check. Magic? check. If you appreciate a good book but also want to make your own choices as the protagonist then buy this game. It's great and lovely and I adore it.

Good stuff

always adored this game when it was free, and I'm so thrilled to have it with me on my laptop now :) STRONGLY recommend it, especially fun to play with a group

Ok, the two first parts are not so bad but not so impressive either (The first part is more like a compilation of short story of what could have been, the real storyline implies romancing the monarch). This title potentially has a lot of flaws depending on your tastes and has a peculiar style of narration. It is minimalistic in its description but that's enough. It alernates between a succession of short description with interactions or a big long passage to advance the storyline until the next choice. The setting is interesting and well presented to the reader : it crafts your attachment to the main character progressively by adding cicumstances one after the other. The third part, on the other hand, impressed me much and was very surprising. It kept me on the edge and felt really immersive. It does a fine work of making you feel for your character, what happens to him and with which character. The tension never stop building scene after scene, detail after detail until the climax and the resolution of it all. It feels a little short, fast paced and rushed, but that's still satisfactory because the whole title is like that all along so you get used to it. In some way, it leaves much to your imagination but do give you enough material to have a really clear idea of what happens and how it happens. I never found the description lacking. Just... short, as is the game in itself. The third part left me with quite a rush and a good feeling. So thumbs up. PS : one of the specific is that the game feels better from the perspective of a woman. Really, it's not an affair of pronouns that will change things. That didn't bothered me though. You can still enjoy it from the man perspective but you'll have to get over some specific choice in the storytelling that were obviously intended to be perceived as a woman at least in the common conception. Not a problem for an open mind.