1000 Princes

1000 Princes is an otome visual novel about an ordinary girl whose past, present and future husbands arrive in her timeline after a pink pig from a higher-dimensional time management bureau bites through it. The pig had escaped from a server room, where it had fainted from hunger and chewed on cables. The resulting damage to the timeline’s magnetic field brings princes from different eras, places and worlds together around you.

You live in Fang Kingdom, a country founded after World War III on a square-shaped landmass formed by tectonic movements. It blends ethnicities and languages, and maintains close diplomatic relations with emerging nations including Fish Kingdom, Chicken Kingdom, Turtle Kingdom, Rabbit Kingdom and Dragon Kingdom. The princes include a Stone Age caveman, ancient fire and water generals, a modern arms dealer, a present-day power company CEO, an alien from the future planet Bike Star and a ghost king from the underworld.

Protect the shared timeline

You and the princes face dangers and challenges together, solving puzzles, going on adventures and supporting one another. They protect you from predicaments while competing to take you to their individual timelines. The crowded shared timeline also brings identity conflicts and attention from the police and media.

Higher-dimensional controllers know that souls can be rewound, replayed or fast-forwarded through reincarnation, but want to keep humans on Earth from discovering the secrets of time and space. The pig’s escape puts those secrets at risk, leaving you in danger of assassination by attackers from another dimension who can take many forms and identities. The princes’ mission is to protect you; escaping with one of them to his timeline is one way to hide. You are also preparing to reopen the small cafeteria your parents left behind.

Story routes

The common-route story, “Elevator Love Rescue,” introduces 10 princes arriving in your timeline for the first time. You solve puzzles, collect items and escape dangerous situations as the story unfolds. A preview and demo are available for the individual route of Ling Tian, the first prince; his route also has a standalone game. The game lets you explore each prince’s profile and preview or try parts of individual routes.

Princes and features

The debut roster includes these characters:

• You: A former architect preparing to reopen your parents’ small cafeteria.
• Bang: A tall, strong caveman whose love is untainted by modern industry.
• Yu Cheng: An unruly, straightforward programmer skilled in offensive coding. When your electric car loses its brakes, he hacks the traffic system to turn all the lights green and save you.
• HaoWei: A cold yet gentle Bear Nation warlord known as Brown Bear, whose tenderness is reserved for you.
• Ling Tian: A handsome, gentle and loyal Fang Nation prince and military school student. His royal family stages a bride-seeking campaign to divert public attention, but he only sees you.
• Citan: A human-alien hybrid from the advanced, rational Baike planet. Though his kind avoids emotions, he chooses to keep his feelings for you.
• Congwei: The CEO of Quark Electric. In his timeline, electric radiation turns you into a human power bank, and he needs your body to stay alive.
• Mo Mo: A calm, intelligent criminal detective from Bear Nation known as Black Bear. He falls in love with you while interviewing you as a witness at crime scenes.
• YuuJin: A smart, hardworking and humble mechanical engineer, and the prince of Fish Nation. In his timeline, you work as his secretary and translator.
• Yong Mi: An ancient water general from Ji Nation who controls water, steam and ice, and makes rainbows to cheer you up.
• Shen Jun: An ancient fire general from Ji Nation who controls fire and uses fireworks to comfort and encourage you.
• Ming Zun: A former underworld judge who reincarnates as a human out of love for you and becomes a court judge.
• Ze Xian: The Pearl Prince, who wants to protect you inside his sturdy pearl shell.

The game also includes songs that unlock as you progress: the princes sing the shared-timeline themes together, while each prince performs solo songs in his individual route. Other features include mini-games, group chats through a mobile app, the princes’ social media updates, daily news, diaries, documents, a lucky draw and an album of photos and memories.