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If It Please the Court is a 242,000-word, text-based interactive romance novel set in 18th-century Versailles. Recruited from the slums of Paris into the Secret du Roi, Louis XV’s network of covert emissaries and spies, you gather intelligence and make choices that shape your life and the future of an unstable country. The game has no graphics or sound effects.

Court and romance

Women across Versailles may become your romantic interests: a spymistress with a lifetime of secrets, a poet living in the queen’s shadow, or a double agent who follows your every move. You can pursue a slow-burn romance or turn to seduction. Along the way, you must contend with a rival’s hostile ambitions and the Crown’s threats to your own goals, deciding whom to protect and whom to sacrifice as trust and loyalty are tested.

Shape your character

You can play as a woman or a nonbinary person, cis or trans, and experience sapphic romance as lesbian, bisexual and/or asexual. You can develop your senses, master disguise, write letters, wield a duelist’s blade or persuade others with a silver tongue.

Choose your loyalties

Your choices determine whether you empower the Crown, undermine the king or betray France to its enemies. You can reunite your family, uncover your father’s past or cut all ties with them. You can also stir a revolution among the citizens or side with the nobles.