This is basically Game of Thrones, the porn game version. It is a breath of fresh air to play porn that has a solid story that affects all of the main characters, and each of them reacts to it in different ways.
This is the type of game you play for the porn, and stay for the gripping story. The synopsis kind of does a poor job of explaining things, so I wanted to go into further detail. Fair warning, while the story is solid its clear this isn't a native English speaker writing this game, so sometimes you'll have some "Englesh" moments but I didn't find it that distracting and it doesn't happen all the time.
I would recommend to the developer to allow a native English speaker to proofread and edit the final version of the game, though, since many people might get annoyed with it.
Story:
As the synopsis states, you are the exiled Prince of the King, who has decided to summon you back home. The Kingdom or Golden Empire is well explained, as are the surrounding nations. Before your birth the Empire was in a great war, rapidly explaining and conquering other nations. One of their biggest rivals was the Elves.
In order to finally have peace and stop the Elf Rebellion since the Empire had pretty much conquered the lands, the current King married an Elf Princess. YOU play as their son, half-Elf and half-human, from two great bloodlines.
As the only male child from the King, you have the strongest claim to the throne, but in typical Game of Thrones fashion, things are not that simple as everyone has a motive and desire for the throne.
Characters:
While their are many characters in this game, I'm listing the main ones, who are also your Love Interest. What's really great is that each of them have their own goals and desires. Forging alliances with someone feels natural and logical while at the same time allows for a good slow burn. Basically when these characters fall for the MC it feels earned.
Mom - Your mother who married your father in a political marriage. A seasoned political woman who wants to follow royal court ethics. With that said as a full blood Elf its also clear she has a deep allegiance to the Elf people and customs. She wants to influence the MC to embrace more of his Elf heritage but she also loves her children and wants to protect them from harm.
Cass - Your half-elder sister. Basically the Aemond (from Game of Thrones) of the group. As the eldest, she feels entitled to the throne, even though that was very unlikely due to her being a woman. She's ambitious, cunning, violent and a bit unstable. She wholeheartedly embraces her role as the villain of the family; however, if you ally with her and hear her backstory, you can't help but feel that she's the monster your parents created. After all your Elf mother doesn't even consider her part of the family and makes her know that, and your father barely contains his anger towards her. Is it truly any wonder she constantly lashes out and wants to see tradition burn?
Elin - Your twin sister. A powerful mage who doesn't care at all about court life. Instead, she just wants freedom, but sadly, as a princess, she can't escape her "duties." Elin is like you in that regard in that she finds herself caught between family loyalties and loyalty to her true desires.
Lia - Your sick little sister who is reaching a breaking point. What good is having a long life if she's stuck in a room with books all day? Will you help her gain freedom (among other naughty things) even if that sets you directly against your parents? Even if it ends up hurting her? What is happiness worth?
And again those are just the main characters
There are plenty of interesting side characters who have their own loyalties and thoughts as to how the government should be run. Even your father, the King, has moments that make him more than the cartoonishly evil King. Human moments that make him feel like a normal politician.
Sex:
So this is a SLOW burn game. While the game does have sex scenes in it of you fucking women, it does take a minute to get any type of scene with the main LIs. In my opinion its worth it because the LIs actually have character and dreams worth reading about but that is my opinion and other people might feel differently.
Likewise this is NOT a corruption game/trainer. You are not turning these characters into whores......or at least not as of 0.6. Some characters have stats that influence how sexual they are, but as of now, it's too early to see if you completely turn them into whores.
What is nice is that even if you're pushing them to be more sexual, you're not twisting your mustache and laughing like a lunatic. There's still obviously love and respect in the relationship, you're just pushing to have a more kinky relationship vs. one based on more romantic gestures. Something I hope continues in the future.
You can choose to play a rapist for those of you that like that kind of thing. I haven't played that route nor is that my kind of thing so I can't really speak to its quality but it is an option in the game.
Likewise you can do a dom/sub play with two LI. Cass and a minor character. I do appreciate a game that allows the player to play as a sub MC, and what's really nice is that playing sub MC doesn't suddenly turn the MC into a whimp 24/7.
Yes they like to bottom and be humiliated in the bedroom, but that's bedroom talk. When the plot kicks in and the MC needs to plan and take action they still do and are treated with love and respect by Cass. Again I like this and its a nice change of pace from other games which assume that just because a player wants to sub in the bedroom, they like to be treated like shit 24/7 in the game.
The only sad thing is Cass is the only character with this system. I really wish that there was a similar system in place for Mom, Elin or Lia. The only other character that has something like this is a minor character called Isis, but honestly, I was disappointed by it. Like even though they're called "dom" points with her, they feel more like asshole points.
Instead of being controlling and teasing the player like Cass and most Dom/sub dynamics, her thing is just to encourage the player to be more like an asshole. Like she wants the player to be more ruthless and ambitious but she's not commanding like Cass is. Honestly, she comes across more of a backseat bottom, like that girl who wants you to top but she'll backseat your topping her the whole time.
For a Dom player I'm sure its fun to shut her up by doming her but as a Sub player its frustrating that she makes you top while also trying to control how you top. Hopefully, she gets better in more updates but I had to do a double take when the game said I was on the "sub" route with her since the sex scenes definitely didn't feel like it.
Other than that, though, there's nothing too crazy sex-wise in the game; I mean, it's Game of Thrones, so incest is the big theme. You have your standard BJ, footjob, peeping, dirty talk, groping and even an under the table BJ. It's all well written but as of 0.6 its nothing too wild.
Final Thoughts
Overall a great game. I didn't touch on the game mechanics but if it wasn't clear from how I described the story this is your standard CYOA game where your choices DO matter. The game remembers the decisions you make and what points you collect.
I already find myself wanting to try another run of the game as a different class and with some different decisions to see what changes. I can't wait to see more from the dev.
