Elite Status: Platinum Concierge

Elite Status: Platinum Concierge is a 500,000-word interactive contemporary drama by Emily Short, with additional content by Harris Powell-Smith. Your choices shape the text-based story, which has no graphics or sound effects. You work for Platinum Concierge, fulfilling the wishes of the world’s wealthiest clients by arranging extraordinary services and experiences.

Concierge work

You might charter a helicopter at short notice to avoid Los Angeles rush-hour traffic, transport a priceless emerald-and-diamond necklace across three continents, or arrange a candlelit dinner in a cave with waiters rappelling down its walls. As your client list grows, you draw on your professional skills and an international network of fellow concierges, whose secrets you may uncover. You also mingle with Hollywood stars, technology moguls, art connoisseurs and others, and travel the globe to find objects and experiences for clients.

The work exposes you to the excess and waste of the wealthy, their callousness, and the sacrifices your colleagues make to serve them. Some requests push against the law or cross its boundaries. You decide whether to grant them, cover up clients’ misdeeds, try to change their course, or embrace their lifestyle and seek wealth and power yourself. You can support your colleagues or undermine them, and either keep your principles and give your fortune to good causes or break the law and flee the consequences.

Your character and relationships

You can play as a man, woman or nonbinary person, and as gay, straight or bisexual. Potential romances include a rebellious trust-funder whose mother is one of your most valuable clients, an idealistic journalist, an ambitious co-worker, a whimsical tech millionaire, and your suave, experienced boss.