Royal Affairs

Royal Affairs is a 482,000-word, text-based interactive novel set in the world of Creme de la Creme. You play as the middle child of a royal family, raised in the palace and now entering Archambault Academy to prepare for royal responsibilities. Your choices shape your relationships, public reputation and the country's future.

Life at Archambault

Everyone knows your name and sees you as the face of a new generation of royalty. Clubs and social groups court you, and students may want to be your friends or something more. You can put on a lavish play, become a sports star or run Student Council, bringing fame or disrepute to the school. You can also help your classmates with their problems or make them worse, and care for and train a horse, dog or bird of prey.

Royal choices

Outside the school, activists are fighting to extend voting rights beyond the aristocracy. You can use your influence to sway Parliament's decision, help the rebels work toward a different future or try to stamp them out through scheming and deceit. You can follow the path your mother, the Queen, has laid out and uphold royal tradition, or break from expectations and lead the country in a new direction.

Your choices also shape your place in the public eye: you can flaunt your fame or avoid the spotlight, and the papers may love or despise you. You must navigate intense family ties and political upheaval, as well as your mother's wish for you to marry a foreign royal who is in your class and hates you. You can pursue a political marriage, fall in love with the wrong person for the right reasons, or build lifelong friendships.

Your character

You can play as male, female or non-binary, and choose to be gay, straight or bisexual, monogamous or polyamorous, and asexual and/or aromantic.