Rating
Long Live the Queen
Rule the world or die trying! 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.
Details
- Released
- June 1, 2012
- Developer
- Hanako Games
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy · Adventure · Indie · Visual Novel
- Publisher
- Hanako Games, Ratalaika Games
Similar Games
Long Live the Queen Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Overall, Long Live The Queen is a really fun game with endless hours of replay value. It’s challenging and can seem initially a bit overwhelming in its vastness but will win you over with its charm and ability to not take things like failure seriously.
Long Live the Queen is described as an adventure-simulation game, but it’s actually so much more. It’s part visual novel, part point-and-click, and all stra
What's my final piece of advice for Long Live the Queen? Shake it off and try again. Is it worth the challenge? Yes. Being successful is gratifying. But having said that, this is a menu game; navigating menus is the core mechanic. There's also plenty of reading that is required, skipping over it makes playing this game almost pointless. The soundtrack is beyond repetitive, nearing an annoyance, but it isn't required to play. Touch controls are fantastic, elevating this to being a great game to sit on the couch and play.
Long Live the Queen was a game released in 2013 on Steam from Hanako games. How do the console ports fare? And how well does it age in the current climate of video games?
These are indie developers and they have captured the basics of the “princess maker” hyper-niche genre. They just needed to focus a little more on presentation and storytelling technique (unless your Yoko Taro, you’re probably not in a position to be writing in abrupt and bad endings without giving players some inkling that one might be coming up), and Long Live The Queen could have been something truly great.
My greatest regret with Long Live The Queen is that I didn’t play it before December 1st 2013, because you can be damned sure I’d have fought for it to go in our games of the year advent calendar if I had. The queen is all kinds of dead. Long live the queen.