Long Live The Queen

Long Live The Queen
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Developer	Hanako Games and Spiky Caterpillar
Publisher	Hanako Games
Engine	Ren'Py
Latest version	1.3.25.1
Platforms	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Release date	June 2, 2012
Genre	Visual Novel, Raising Sim
Modes	Single player
Media	Online distribution/Download, Compact Disc/CD

Long Live The Queen is a visual novel role-playing video game developed by Hanako Games and Spiky Caterpillar, published by Hanako Games. It was released on June 2, 2012 for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The game uses anime-style graphics and is written in English. The latest patch was released on October 2015.

The story of the game follows a young princess who is training to become queen after the death of her mother. The objective of the game is to keep the princess alive for 40 weeks until she turns 15 and gets crowned.

The game can be purchased either from the official Hanako Games page or Steam.

Plot

From the official website:

THE QUEEN IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.

Now power is up for grabs. You may be the official heir, but much of the country's nobility would love to steal the throne for themselves. Aggressive neighbors will take advantage of any weakness to enlarge their borders at your expense. And that's not even mentioning the magical dangers which are lying in wait...

Can you survive long enough to reach your coronation?

For more details see Events by Week and Calendar.

Characters

See also Category:Characters for the full list.

Content

Characters

Royalty

Nobility

Commoners

Minor Characters

Lumen Characters

Gameplay

Moods

Skills

Outfits

Approval

Cruelty

Story Events

Events by Week

Weekend Activities

Achievements

Deaths Checklist

Marriage

Epilogue

Background

Nova

World

Lumen

Story Lore

Other Information

Guides

Development

Image Gallery

Debug Mode

Development

The game was developed by Hanako Games and Spiky Caterpillar, creators of Cute Knight, Cute Knight Kingdom, and Magical Diary. It was made with the Ren'Py visual novel engine.

Long Live The Queen has darker elements than all the previous titles: themes of intrigue, politics, murder, espionage, abuse and war make most of the story, while also using archetypes of Magical Girl fiction.

The game has received many updates since release, the biggest being the Steam Greenlight update which added new characters, gave old extras more dialogue and portraits and added more events and epilogues.

Reception

As of 11/24/2018, this game holds a Steam Rating of 95% based on 4,708 reviews.

Metacritic

Metascore: 65/100 - Mixed or average (Based on 5 critics)
User Score: 7.8 - Generally favorable (Based on 94 user ratings)

Technology Tell

Score: 90/100
Quote: It’s really an unusual adventure and I admire Hanako Games and Spiky Caterpillar for stepping a little outside their comfort zone to release a darker game that requires players to think smart and manage emotions to keep a character alive.

Eurogamer

Score: 7/10
Quote: The fact is that wandering through the plot of Long Live the Queen, blithely making mistakes on the assumption you'll do better the second or third time, is wonderful. Trying to actually do better is a byzantine process involving either heavy use of a guide or incredible persistence.

PC Power Play

Score: 7/10
Quote: What initially seems like a game of dressups and progress bars reveals itself to be a much deeper story based affair. [March 2014, p.58]

PC Gamer

Score: 6.5/10
Quote: There’s solid storytelling and mechanics behind the numbers, but the art and sound could be much more interesting.

Trivia

The game's setting, Nova, and it's duchies and counties share a volcanic and planetary naming theme. According to Hanako Games this is "Because, after all, this is a game about dying horribly. :D"