I participated in Kickstarting the game, and I have been excited since that day to play this game. However, I have more grievances than positive things to say. I'll outline them for you. I personally don't reccommend the game, however, if the following won't keep you from enjoying the experience, please go ahead the purchase the game. The creators did their hardest and deserve credit for that, if nothing else. Also note, I only went 40 days into the total 60. I stopped there due to my issues with gameplay. (I am also attempting to make this as spoiler-free as possible)

- RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: This seems to be on the weak side. There honestly should be more to do, there are days when I just skip over this beause the only thing you can control are your three advisors. You have personal skills you can work on, but only on the weekend. Thus, they go up very slow. I also have no idea what good they do in game. Is it making me more attractive to some of the love interests? Do I get extra coin or soldiers during the decision-making process? If so? I can't tell. So it almost seems pointless. There are laws you can pass, and I feel like I've wasted my nobility influence passing some of the laws. It only gets you a LITTLE money or a LITTLE happiness and I don't feel it's worth it since it seems to be so diffcult to obtain these nobility points. It feels like the other law are meaningless and you should concentrate all your focus onto making gay marriage legal. Also, you can get influence and raise relations with the other countries... been doing that this whole time. I have no idea what it's actually good for. Is there some sort of war at the end? I'm this far into the game; why haven't I learned anything about that yet if there is? If the influence is doing anything for me gamewise I WANT TO KNOW, because WHY ELSE SHOULD I CARE?

- SPYING on ROYALTY: You have the option to spy on either the princes or princesses. You can find out what the princes like so you can get with them, or spy on the princesses so you can deflect them properly when they come to ask for your hand. The spying on the princesses thing seems almost pointless. Once you got the rhythm, and the princesses sort of hint at the kind of answers are good for them, you can pick them right off the bat pretty easy. Getting info on the princes' is more important, which leads me to the next segment....

- THE LOVE INTERESTS ARE BORING. You can invite them to events, but... it's just honestly not interesting. There's no real "romance" or "plot" to them, just... do you get along with this guy? Okay cool, he's your boyfriend now. In fact, I didn't even know this one dude WAS my boyfriend until I tried to get some info on another dude and Spymaster was like, "yoooo not gonna help you cheat, G" basically, and I was just like WAIT WHAT HAPPENED HOW? Also, for a dating-sim type game? Some of the prince sprites are just recolors of the other, or the heights are adjusted. I wanted to see some GORGEOUS DESIGNS, and I got... what I got. The PRINCESSES, however, THEY are designed BEAUTIFULLY and it's incredibly not fair. I feel like more effort could have been put into it.

- ON THE SUBJECT OF ART: When I saw the mocks designs an some screenshots, I liked what I saw. I really like the backgrounds and the menu screens. Very nice and polished looking. The actual people, hm, I'm not 100% sold on it. I like the designs of some of the people in game, sure, but... I don't know. It just doesn't FIT with the story it's trying to tell. This is more of a personal opinion, but when I'm playing a dating sim-type game, I want to be heavily into the character via looks or story, which leads to...

- WHERE IS YOUR LOVE STORY? There is none. Out of what I saw, you just... try to date a guy (my date didn't work out so, alas), and... I honesly don't know. Didn't get that far. I'd love to see more people's reviews on this. But I honestly didn't care. They didn't seem interesting. You know who did seem interesting? Spymaster. And you can't date them! Alas. Especially since you get some great cutscenes with them, I'm just... disappointed you don't get the same courtesy with your romance interests (now, if I'm wrong and after you're boyfriends some AWESOME STUFF HAPPENS, please let me know). But even so, that seems backwards. The getting to know yous should be important. The game would have been more efficent with less princes, and more time spent on a "route" with them.

As I helped to kickstart the game, I paid a different price for what it is selling for on Steam. I unforuntately have to say that I don't believe the game is worth the price. I was disappointed at the mechanics and how they were utlilized, and it all seemed to sort of fall apart the more the game went on. There were some good things: the humor in some of the writing, your relationship with your advisors... but it didn't even come close to overwriting the flaws I saw in game, which is why I am not reccomending it.


TL;DR:
If I had to give it a rating, 3 out of 10. While there is heart put this game (most made clear in the writing and design of the main cast), it falls short and has many flaws in its mechanics, the love story aspect, and saps the joy out of finding romance. I ended up finding that I was just concentrating on trying to ake my kingdome run smoothly... but eventually, on day 40, for me, even that fell short.

I bought this game bc I thought it would be a funny dating sim along the lines of Monster Prom or dream daddy, but it's really not all that fun for a few different reasons.

It kinda reeks of rainbow capitalism, like all the dialogues surrounding being gay is basically everyone reacting poorly, me having to choose to come out, and/or being microagressive. It just feels like it was written by a bunch of straight people, like it simultaneously feels gay and homophobic, y'know?

Ex: you out and deadname your spymaster bc you're so obsessed with their gender and you don't have an option, it's just an event that happens, and for what? All so the devs could put in a story line where they say, "hey you shouldn't have looked into that info, it wasn't kind." Like I didn't! It wasn't something I got the option to opt out of! Every conversation you have with your spymaster about their gender is not optional and very transphobic. It feels like the entire dialogue was written by a cis person who genuinely thought they were doing something good and progressive with that story line.

Aside from that, it's just not a very good game from a story or game play standpoint:

- Resource Gathering
Either it needs to be longer, or gathering resources needs to be less time consuming or more rewarding or all three. Spending 2 whole days just to get 10 gold or 15 support is not enough. You have to choose between making gay marriage legal and dating or any other social cause like free healthcare, because they're all so expensive that no matter how well you manage your time and resources you absolutely cannot do more than one thing. Which is kind of a bummer bc then it's like, great I made gay marriage legal but I don't get to experience the dating side of the game bc I had to spend all of my time making it legal, so I don't even get to experience the rewards of my hard work.

-Spying and Dating Sim
Using your spymaster to spy on princesses is essentially useless bc there are so many of them and it takes 2 days to research any info on them. Spying on princes is also similarly useless for the same problem with the added difficulty that they're not all gay so you spend 2 days looking for info on them, 4 if you want more info, and then you find out maybe they're not even gay so you wasted a ton of time and the spymaster is better used gaining favor so you can make it legal to even be gay, otherwise what's the point?

I think a) there's too many ppl to spy on for it be effective, b) the duties of spying and gaining support from royals should have been two separate people bc it's impossible to do both with only one spymaster. c) the rewards of spying on princesses is essentially not worth the effort because they come to you randomly, and even if you have spied on one that proposed to you later, it doesn't help you unless you've somehow memorized their likes and dislikes and there's far too many to do that.

- Managing Relationships With Countries
No matter how hard I try, the elven country ends up mad at me and saying I was "being mean to them" even though all of my choices when I had them were not negative. I just kept losing favor with them for no reason that I could see or understand. The only way to fix that would be to have my spymaster try to gain favor with them but I was too busy using him to gain support with nobles just so I could pass laws.

-Potion System
Meanwhile my wizard just sits there unused and useless bc none of the potions are particularly helpful even though they take between 2 and 7 days to make and he can only help me gain favor with the vampire empire, who I never need help with anyways bc I have a plethora of opportunities to gain favor with them outside of the adviser management system.

-The Gay Meter
Which brings me to my next point: the gaydar, or suss-o-meter, or whatever you want to call it, goes up way too quickly and almost never goes down on it's own, so I have to use potions that just barely make it go down, then if it gets to the top I have to stand trial for being gay even if I have already made it legal, so like what was the point of making it legal then? There is never any other story or anything that happens when the meter goes up, it's the same trial with the same weird options to "prove you're not gay." Besides just being kind of offensive, it's just boring and a bad plot device.

- Skill Building
On the weekends in the game you get to choose between different activities that build skills, these skills have absolutely no bearing on the game in any way shape or form. I thought building charisma would allow me to make better excuses when turning away princesses, or at least give me more of a shot at doing so successfully, but it did absolutely nothing. It might have given me a new outfit? Extremely unclear as to how outfits or the skill tree work.

- Lazy Story Telling
Lastly, there's so few events in this game you just get a repeat of the same exact ones, so replay value is essentially not worth it. In six hours I played through twice bc the first one I was trying to give my country education, higher pay, and marriage equality and realized I could only do one of those things successfully. So I played through again and tried to focus on marriage equality and dating, but during my second play through I was so bored I skipped almost all the dialogue and missed nothing. It was all the same exact situations they just occurred in a slightly different order. I wish you had more choices when it came to letters too, but you only have choices sometimes, and again you get the exact same letters every time. I would have told my pal Omar to stop cheating on his f*cking fiance had I ever been given the option. It was so utterly boring, and given that the game description advertises that "every play through will be different,"it was a huge let down.

Tl;dr: utterly disappointing from both a story and game play stand point. Felt homophobic and microagressive despite trying very hard to be progressive, would not recommend.

I really wanted, and tried, to like this game, but overall it was frustrating and disappointing.

RESOURCES - This system is SUPREMELY frustrating because you can't really do much of anything, and most of it doesn't matter anyway. My biggest complaint is that money and happiness are way too easy to get, and loyalty is impossible. Doing nothing but putting your spymaster on garnering loyalty, and picking practically all the options that further get it, you still barely manage to cobble enough together to fully complete just one law path, and obviously you are meant to go with the equality path. There's no time or resources enough to do all the others. Also, it's supremely tiresome and juvenile that the tax laws are all shaming. Like, you do need taxes to run a country, grow up. As to the weekend stuff - ????????? The first play through, none of it matter at all. The second play through, apparently I should have focused on nerve (the stupid, anachronistc shopping option) because the need for it came up twice and mine was too low.

MARRIAGE/ROMANCE - I HATED the 'are you acting straight enough' meter. It was gross. I don't know why not a single person on the development team went 'maybe this perpetuates stereotypes/might hurt people who face this very real fear of getting disowned/beaten/killed if they don't act straight enough.' And there was no romance at all. Like, one prince showed up, but I couldn't impress him because I didn't have enough Nerve. Then I finally found time to spy (which, creepy much?) on one of the many copy/pasted with different colors princes, and then at the end of the game I wound up married to some dude I'd never met during my play through. Fun!

SPYING - I can get this was intended to be cute, but mostly it just came off creepy. Also, it was completely fricking pointless. You're so busy trying to get enough loyalty to do just three laws that there's no time for spying AND IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENT TO ANYTHING. None. Zilch. Nada. I spied once during my second playthrough and it made no difference to who I married, and I never needed it for the princesses.

POTION MAKING - no idea what this was for, it made no difference to anything

IMPROVE RELATIONS - why bother telling my advisors to do this? Everything seems to increase just fine on its own through the course of the game.

WEEKENDS - the increased were so incremental, and you could improve things so rarely, ultimately they're pointless.

GAMEPLAY - THERE IS SO MUCH WASTED TIME. This game would have been so much better if loyalty hadn't even been something assigned to Seraph. Ever single freaking day it's 'we had a peaceful dinner' or 'nothing happened today'. You know what would have been fun? If in the morning you did audiences, in the afternoon you met with nobles and such to schmooze them for the loyalty and international relations, and in the evening you attended parties where you had to avoid princesses and flirt with princes. THAT would have been an engaging game. Instead it feels like most of the time and opportunity for things is wasted, and so many elements are just flat out useless, to the point they could be removed and literally nothing would change.


Like, the only thing that is interesting in this game is managing the kingdom, and even that gets frustrating at times because of the awkward system. The avoiding the brides is pointless. There's no romance line at all that I can find. And the characters all seem flat, a little too OTT, or weirdly self-insert and a little too perfect.

I almost skipped right past Your Royal Gayness. I assumed that a game that puts gayness in the title was just going to be so painfully gay that there wouldn't be room for anything else. But I clicked on it anyway, just to see how bad it might be. Cute graphics, that's nice. Then I read the premise. You're a gay prince in a kingdom that doesn't tolerate homosexuality. Can you find love with the other princes, without giving away your secret? All the while, fending off the advances of princesses of neighbouring kingdoms, and the pressures of courtly life that expect marriage and children.

I thought, yeah, okay, that's actually a pretty good idea for a video game. I put it on my wishlist and picked it up during one of the Steam sales, and eventually got around to playing it. To be honest, it wasn't exactly what I was expecting. I thought it would be more of a dating simulator, but it was more like a kingdom management game, similar to Long Live the Queen (though without all the dying). You basically have 4 resources, Wealth, Military, Influence, and Popularity, and you have to make decisions brought to you that will affect your resources.

Now, this game does a lot of things wrong. It had a lot of ideas that don't seem to really go anywhere. For example, there's a dungeon you can visit, but it is almost completely useless. You also have a statistics screen with four variables, and you pick activities on the weekend to raise your stats. But the stats don't seem to actually do anything. Also I ran into a pretty bad bug where the game sort of crashed when doing one quest, you had to click “ignore” on a bunch of error messages to get through it, and you miss out on a bunch of conversation.

NEVERTHELESS, I really liked this game. It has a lot of heart. I got choked up several times, reading letters from grateful citizens, after I passed a law allowing gay marriage. Also, it's just quite cute and charming. One thing I enjoyed was that if you act too gay, the establishment kidnaps you and submits you to a trial involving a game where you must guess all the straight options i.e. pick the avocado, not the cucumber. So, despite it's flaws, I think it's a fun game. I give it 3/5 stars, grab it on sale though, because I'm not sure about the $15 price tag.

Liked it. Funny little game, I appreaciated being the targeted demographic for once. Price is a little on the high side, but I don't regret encouraging the developers as it's a bit of a niche market.

Cute, short and pretty innocent. Very causal decision making game that has a good deal of wit. Only thing I didn't love was the straight acting potion. Gay guys can smell like steak and wear cargo shorts. What I loved about Mass Effect's Sheppard was he didn't fall into stereotypes and his gay romance options were normal guys, even tough guys. Being gay doesn't make you effeminate and smell good(or even "smell gay"-- As this game put it when a potion backfired...). But overall this game was pretty clever and has a decent message.

Cute game with a sweet message of acceptance. I absolutely love the art and the advisors are fun. But this isn't a real dating sim. The dating options are randomized and so you can't truly get to know them and the relationships lack intimacy.

Most of the game play is just giving your 3 advisors assignments each day and dealing with minor emergencies. I don't regret my purchase but I have no desire to replay it.

It's a cute little game with lots of humor and interesting characters.
I like it a lot, but I think there are still a few things the developers need to improve considering the balancing.


Pros:
- The art style is nice and the characters and backgrounds are drawn well.
- The main characters have interesting backgrounds and quirks.
- The events and speeches are very humorous.
- The events are randomized, so playing it multiple times can lead to new story parts.

Cons:
- The resource balancing is off.
The loyalty, which is the most important, is almost impossible to get, but is needed for the things that matter most, the laws.
- The character skills are funny, but because you can only train them on the weekends, they almost don't increase over the course of the game.
- The play time is quite short, especially considered the price of the game.

I think most of the Cons can easily be fixed by simply increasing the ruling time from 60 days to maybe 120 or so. This would give the possibility to gather more resources (especially royalty) and see more of the events. 'Cause some of the game mechanics only show if you actually hit certain events.
E.g. One of the character skills was needed to impress a prince that visited me. But this only happened in my second play through, so in the first one it seemed kinda pointless to improve the skills. Same goes for the relationships with other nations. I guess there are events where it matters, but they didn't happen in the two play thorughs I had.

But as the developer team seems eager to improve the game, I'm sure they'll fix those flaws in some time and make the experience even better :)

I'm glad I paid 15€ to support "gay gaming", but

1) There is no gameplay
2) There is no romance
3) There is no story

Concept is nice, execution is awful :-/

I liked the concept of the game, and had fun playing it, but it's probably not worth the money I spent, considering that I played it through 3 times to get the good ending, and I only have 3 hours of play time logged in. Also, most of the mechanics of this game don't matter very much (did relationships really do anything for me in the end?), and it was impossible to get enough loyalty to make it through more than one law path (60 days was too short). I just felt like there were a lot of things that SEEMED important, but ultimately did nothing, and the only real objective was to make it through the equality branch.