Creme de la Creme

Crème de la Crème is a 440,000-word interactive novel set at Gallatin College, an exclusive finishing school for young people from high society. After your parents fall into disgrace and society rejects them, you enroll to secure your future and restore your family’s good name. Your choices shape the story in this text-based game, which has no graphics or sound effects.

Life at Gallatin

At the college, you learn social graces alongside high-class peers. You can dance with royalty, impress decorated officers and improve your etiquette. Decide whether to focus on your reputation, social connections or grades, and whether to sneak out of class or practice ballroom dancing. You can make friends with classmates or sabotage them, and join a clique—sanctioned by the college or not—to build its strength and standing.

Relationships and ambitions

You can play as male, female or nonbinary, and choose to be gay, straight or bisexual, monogamous or polyamorous, asexual and/or aromantic. Pursue a match with an aristocrat or royal, a romantic connection with a fellow student, or a relationship with someone below your social standing. You can also have a no-strings-attached fling or propose a marriage of convenience with a friend.

Your choices can lead to a place at university or a competitive internship. You can repair your family’s reputation or damage it further, and uncover Gallatin College’s dark secrets to reveal them to the world or keep them hidden.