Celestial Crowns

Excellent writing, voice acting, and music! You can rename the MC, choose a masc or fem presenting sprite, choose between two voices (MC is voiced!), pick your pronouns, and choose the honorific that the NPCs will use for your royal. Plus the dialogue choices you make will help determine the personality your royal presents. All the LIs are interesting and varying shades of sweet. Though I have to admit I've been over the moon for Lune since I first tried the demo <3

Good game, a bit uneven but still worth a try. I was a Kickstarter backer and don't regret backing. The main draw of Celestial Crowns is its choice system. Choices can have up to 10 options (there's usually fewer), connected to 9 different stats. Unfortunately, it's a bit less in-depth than I really expected. This isn't really a political sim or anything like that, and as far as I can tell, your stats in the different attributes [i]don't[/i] directly affect what ending you can get (although they [i]can[/i] affect which choices you have available). It's still pretty impressive, especially compared to most visual novels, but I would recommend going into this game thinking of it as a regular VN with an abnormally high amount of choice options rather than a stat-raiser. Something else I didn't expect and was surprised by is that [spoiler]the appearance you pick affects what anatomy your character has during sex scenes (I'm used to games either giving you a choice or keeping it vague if there isn't a fixed MC), regardless of the pronouns/gendered terms you pick[/spoiler]. This didn't particularly affect my enjoyment, but I think it could be a negative surprise for some people. The routes themselves...Aalam's is the best, by far, even though I wasn't initially interested in him. Lune's is also pretty good. Sahi's route is kind of a victim of the structure of the game; I thought it was the weakest and IMO it doesn't particularly make sense? But the other two routes are good enough to make up for it. Even if you're not a fan of guys with beards (which I am not) I promise Aalam will be worth it LMAO, his route really is so good.