Long Live the Princess

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Long Live the Princess turns a royal succession crisis into an investigation game where information can be more useful than brute force. The king is dead, Princess Selena is preparing for her coronation, and someone is already working behind the scenes to bring the kingdom down. You play a Truthsayer with the unusual ability to recognize lies, giving you a reason to question almost everyone you meet rather than simply accepting what the story tells you. The mystery quickly grows beyond ordinary detective work. Your training gives access to abilities, magical techniques, relationship checks, hidden secrets, and alternate ways of approaching characters. Instead of following one fixed route, you can spend your limited time investigating the town, training attributes, collecting clues, solving puzzles, or getting closer to people who may know far more than they initially admit. Key Features

• Truthsayer investigation - identify suspicious statements, collect evidence, uncover secrets, and use what you learn to open new possibilities.
• Ability-based progression - train Charisma, Courage, Perversity, Pathfinding, and magical abilities that affect conversations, exploration, and character events.
• Large interconnected cast - investigate Evelyn, Primrose, Callie, Samarra, Nell, Sister Agnes, Belle, the Fairy Queen, and other characters connected to Selena's story.
• Puzzles and hidden clues - solve the town hall investigation, interpret the Fairy Queen's visions, search locations, and discover information that may otherwise remain hidden.
• Multiple relationship routes - character decisions can change romances, friendships, later scenes, and the options available during the endgame.
• New Game Plus - completing an ending unlocks NG+, where progression changes and additional character content becomes available.

The most interesting part of the game is how its systems overlap. Primrose is not simply a character whose route advances by selecting affectionate dialogue. Her relationship values, seduction requirements, family circumstances, and secrets can influence what becomes available. Later updates made her progression clearer by moving the beginning of her romantic buildup earlier and providing more explicit guidance about where players should focus their attention. Callie offers another example. Her storyline includes mutually exclusive relationship branches, and the game keeps track of how other relationships affect what you can ask her to do. Evelyn also has a substantial route built around discovering her dark secret, repeatable events, night content, affection requirements, and an epilogue that responds to earlier decisions. Exploration matters because several characters and mechanics are tied to specific locations. The town map can show character positions, while wilderness areas, the river, church, training grounds, Fairy Court, library, tents, and other locations contain clues or progression requirements. Locked gallery entries can even provide hints about how their associated events are unlocked. Magic expands the detective side of the game. Abilities such as Deep Sleep, Probe Memory, Shrink, Dispel Magic, and Remove Inhibitions interact with particular situations or routes. Some abilities have their own training requirements, while New Game Plus can let experienced players skip training they have already effectively mastered. The game also includes structured progression tools. A spellbook tracks learned magic and remaining daily uses of Invade Mind, while a to-do list reminds you about important objectives. Ability checks provide feedback when successful, and later updates made several puzzle hints more generous so that a wrong answer is more likely to reveal useful information instead of simply wasting time. The final sections revolve around Selena's coronation and bring earlier investigations together. The endgame was released in several stages before the 1.0 edition polished dialogue, relationships, puzzles, animations, and older scenes. The completed release also includes 62 achievements, New Game Plus, expanded epilogues, repeatable character events, galleries, and numerous route-dependent outcomes, giving completion-focused players plenty to revisit. How to Play: Explore the town and wilderness, talk to characters repeatedly, investigate suspicious clues, train useful abilities, and manage your available actions before advancing major story events. Keep separate saves when making important relationship or endgame decisions. About the Developer: Long Live the Princess is created by Belle - follow the developer and find project information through Patreon. Game Info: Ren'Py | by Belle | Fantasy Visual Novel | English | Complete. Updated to 1.0 on November 30th -0001.