The Eagle's Heir

The Eagle's Heir is a 200,000-word interactive novel set in an alternate-history Europe where Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Seventeen years later, the great empires of Austria, Russia and England try to contain revolution, while France uses steam power to dominate the air and sea. With Napoleon's health failing, France is divided between his legitimate heir, Franz, and his illegitimate son Alexandre.

You play Alexandre's loyal bodyguard and childhood companion, skilled in dueling and ballroom etiquette. Your choices shape who rules France and what form its government takes: a kingdom, an empire or a republic. You can support Alexandre and his revolutionary ideals or back his half-brother Franz, while navigating political maneuvering, airship adventure and romantic intrigue.

Choices and intrigue

You can race airships across the English Channel, fight France's enemies with airship guns or seek alliances through marriage. You may join a group of actors in the revolutionary cause or spy on them for your allies, duel aristocrats to protect your and Alexandre's honor, and plan an elopement that causes an uproar across Europe.

Romance options include a journalist, a lady's maid and a ménage à trois at the Tuileries Palace. You can play as male, female, genderfluid or non-binary, and as gay, straight or asexual. The novel is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects.