I'm gonna try to make this as objective and spoiler-free as possible.

This Visual Novel has excellent voice-acting, amazing art, and cute music. It has a very decent narrative, but since the game's relatively short (You can get to an ending in between 2 and 4 hours of play) it doesn't tell a very complicated story.

Not that that's a bad thing, of course. It's a short and sweet story, but I felt like sometimes it tried to tell more about its world and build a story for the relationship of some characters than it could because of its shortness. Of course, due to this short-lived type of narrative, choices aren't that important, but again, it's not a big deal.

I wish it were longer, but because I would've liked it to expand on the lore and relationship between characters, and sometimes there's some glimmer of a subplot here and there, although it doesn't go all the way. It's worth your money. Just for that beautiful art... My god!

It was a great experience. I loved it and it's an LGTB+ story, so props for that! We need more of those :)

A sweet and well-written Visual Novel. The voice acting is very good. It's clear and articulate, and you can hear their feelings through their voices. There are many high quality CGs, which is a great plus here. Everything about the game is well-made. The game menu is very simple. And the music choices are nice, too, 9/10.

-1 point, because there is no Japanese language which is really sad.

This game is soooooo cute and warm and sad and happy I just I can't even talk about it properly.

Made me smile big time. Highly recommended if you're a flowery lesbian like me..

This VN made me gayer than I already was, and that's saying something.

I'm gay, you're gay, they're gay, we are all gay.

Perfect Gold is a romantic/Slice-of-Life VN. Although I'm really not into Slice-of-Life Visual Novels I really enjoyed Perfect Gold. The main reasons where:

- ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS looking game. I mean the artwork is just GORGEOUS, beautiful, and I could go on and on and on about it. My hats off to Ryuu the lead Artist. I am sure that her career will take off with this kind of quality of work I'm sure she will be busy for a long time to come with job offers left and right.
- SUPERB Voice Acting. Let me say this for starters. This is THE FIRST Visual Novel that I actually ENJOYED the ENGLISH VOICE OVERS. 99% of the Visual Novels I've played have really bad English Voice Acting, and I always switch to the Superb Japanese Voice acting. Well, in this one there is no choice to pick Japanese but even if there was, I would pick the English. The Voice Overs are amazing. And there is sooo much passion put into the voice acting and that's one of the reasons that I really enjoyed Perfect Gold. Not to mention that the Voice Acting is accompanied by lip-sync. So that makes it feel even more cinematic than it is.
- Even though the story is Slice-of-life, and would seem to be not that great also and abit generic, it's the dialog, and the warm, passionate, voice acting that carry this Visual Novel. And the dialogue is pretty well written and gets emotional at times, again mostly because of the SUPERB Voice Acting, and how AMAZING it looks. Honestly I think it's one of the best looking 2D/3D art I've seen in any VN. Gorgeous Sprites, backgrounds, and CGs. Also has a music box in the extras to listen to the tracks which are pretty decent.

The VN IS choice based so as you would have guessed it DOES have more than one ending. However keep in mind that this IS a short Visual Novel. I finished all routes in 5 hours, and I MAY have been AFK for an hour. So it's pretty short.

But in conclusion I definitely recommend playing it, and I will have to give it a solid 8/10.

This was so cute! Great voice acting and visuals (loved how the sprites/backgrounds subtly moved), and while I almost wish it had been longer because I was attached to the characters, it worked well as a short story. A lot of wlw visual novels feel either hypersexualized or too subtle (aka, subtext & not explicitly obvious it's romance), so it's refreshing to see a well-written romance. I was a little nervous going into this because I had a lot of issues with The Letter (another visual novel by this studio), but they really improved and did a great job with this game.

My only minor complaint is that the choices felt unnecessary—it's pretty obvious which ones lead to the good/romantic ending, and that's what most people who buy this are playing it for, so it felt like they were added in to avoid having this be a kinetic visual novel. I get it, since a lot of people are put off when there's no choices, but I don't have any desire to go back and get the "bad" ending.

But overall, I'd highly recommend playing this! I'd love to see more games like this from this studio.

to start off this review, thank you so much to my steam bestie... without your gift i would have never started playing this gem and started to fangirl for this couple (which is a good thing because i am deprived of good WLW visual novel games that gives me fluttering feelings)!ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

definitely check this game out if you're a fan of these mangas and animes:
- The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (magirevo for short)
- I'm in Love with the Villainess
- (feel free to leave comments in this genre so i too can check them out ;p)

here are some reasons WHY YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME while you wait for more episodes of I'm in Love with the Villainess (i'm writing this review while waiting for manaria's arc to air):
- developer is a green flag for using the word WLW
- a non-binary character and how the other characters use the they/them pronouns effortlessly with lots of respect (+1 to whoever thought of this, love to see more representation!)
- the women are for the female gaze (i am not dismissing any male who are fans of this kind of content, it is just a saying) as there are no over-the-top unrealistic chest sizes or skimpy skirts which covers almost nothing
- plot that actually has something going on and makes you intrigued to know more without unnecessary scenes
- voice acting is a BANGER especially audrey clary when she flirts and marion larue's nervous replies :3
- gorgeous, beautiful, stunning, fantastic, and appealing art for all of the character animations up to the backgrounds
- audrey clary during the portrait scene (and every scene where she flirts okay i will not lie i blushed and squealed worse than marion)
- marion larue during the fight scene (who doesn't like angsty women who speaks the truth and yes i am guilty of liking firebenders)

the only downside is that IT ENDS AFTER TWO PLAYTHROUGHS (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ so after quitting the game you have to be delusional enough to conjure a world where they are both happily together... unless... the developers plan to release a sequel... please... there are only 2 fanfictions on A03 [archiveofourown.org]...

to end this review, i'd love to say that perfectionism isn't about doing what others want you to do and gold isn't necessarily found in mines because someone could challenge you to achieve the perfection only you strive to obtain for yourself and is worth much more than gold.

indeed, the perfect gold is found in the friendship we find along the way... and they were roommates :P

but if this review does not do enough justice for you to get it then mayhaps audrey clary will (open at your own risk for a spoiler)

Seeing their relationship blossom as I play this in my basement made me realize I am destined to die a slow, terrifying death alone with nothing to show for my life.

But yeah great story, great characters, amazing art 10/10 would recommend.

if ur thinking of buying this game do it, its like a warm cup of tea on a cold day