Tailor Tales

Tailor Tales is an otome game about a female fashion designer who runs a boutique in a fictional European country. After a fateful encounter complicates her life, you design clothes for clients to earn gold and unlock the next story chapter, while choosing which bachelor to romance. Each route tells a separate story, with no shared common route.

Design and customize

You create clothes, customize and dress the main character, and decorate her boutique. In each romance, you choose whether she acts fierce or kind, and can decide who takes the lead in a kiss. There are no bad endings, and each bachelor has two endings and nine CGs. The game also features partial voice acting, blinking sprites and CGs, animated mouths, and a night mode for light-on-dark reading.

The love interests

Seven routes are complete, with 5–7 hours of gameplay per route, or about 100,000–130,000 words per character. The game describes eight routes as its future total; the route for Zex is currently in development.

• Neil: A wealthy, prickly man who prefers not to interact with you. He fondly remembers meeting you as a child, when he mistook you for a boy. As adults, you visit masquerade balls and the opera as he struggles to deal with you.
• Dimitri: Your ex’s younger brother, who is four years younger than you. When the college student looks for a room to rent, you invite him to live at your boutique. He is sweet, easily flustered and loves to cook for you.
• Caine: A tactless, slippery thief. After you help him when he is being bullied at his part-time job, you find that beneath his loud, rude manner he has trouble expressing his feelings and can be lonely.
• James: In an alternate reality where people have superpowers, you design costumes for superheroes. James can fly, but crashes in front of your boutique; he is stoic and rarely shows emotion. Then you are kidnapped.
• Aiden: You meet this chatty, flirtatious man while playing a popular online game and arrange to meet him. In person, you discover he has been catfishing you; his social anxiety makes him a bumbling fool who keeps running away from your anger. Only the first several chapters of his route are free to play.
• Gray: Your rival gang leader from high school, who does not know you are the leader and takes a liking to you. Years later, he asks to rent your boutique’s basement for a board gaming group, but you begin hearing strange sounds from below.
• Eeyok: In an 18th-century story, you are engaged to a duke when you are executed, then wake up back in time before your execution. You appoint Eeyok as your guard because he was the only one who tried to save you. He is wary of your intentions but will risk his life to protect you.
• Zex: A closed-off, no-nonsense man whose younger brother breaks into your store. Zex offers to fix it, and you begin to suspect that something is wrong at home: he disappears at night, their mother is absent, and his little brother is left alone. You wonder whether Zex is doing criminal work to make ends meet.

Playing the stories

Tailor Tales is free to play. Each route offers a different romance and story, with clothing design and boutique tasks woven into the chapters.