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Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.
Royal Alchemist is a rpg, otome and visual novel game
developed by Nifty Visuals
and published by Nifty Productions.
Released on April 30th 2020 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 305 reviews of which 288 were positive and 17 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP System Pack 1
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 700 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6+
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 700 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Linux x86/x86_64
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 700 MB available space
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Quick summary: I really enjoyed this visual novel and especially the characters, but only because there is a fantastic steam guide for it. Positives: + The characters are fantastic. I enjoyed the day-to-day interactions with them even more than the main story. + The worldbuilding is a great combination of a magical world and palace politics. The magic system is simple enough to understand, but still offers a lot of depth and possible combinations. There are also mentions of other kingdoms and visiting ambassadors, so it doesn't feel like the world is reduced to the palace. + The player character has enough personality to make them likeable, but also leaves enough room to shape them a bit. + The game features a lot of artworks. The chibi mission arts are really cute! + Good replayability. The story focuses on the prince you choose and mainly revolves around him. So each of the three story arcs feels really distinct and offers a lot of new scenes. Of course, there are some repeats regarding the main story, but besides that everything else is different. Mixed feelings: o The pacing of the story. It spends the first third of the story building a mystery and intrigue, but then just forgets about that from time to time. Like, in the first weeks you have this big, dramatic scene escaping from assassins and in the next scene everyone acts like nothing happened and you just go out to town and have tea parties until the next thing happens weeks later. The threat didn't build up constantly, but felt very sporadic. You really felt the difference between main-story-danger-weeks and the ~10 weeks of downtime in between. o The resolution of the story. There are two main mysteries to unveil in the story and while I think one of them has a great setup and resolution, the other one kinda came out of nowhere. I initially thought maybe that's because I chose the wrong route, but none of the three really set the twist up. To be fair, that gave it a really good shock factor. But I wished it would have been set up a bit more. Negatives: - I think the stat raising aspect is an interesting idea, BUT it's way too unpredictable. You just have to trial-and-error your way through the stats, which I found quite frustrating sometimes. In games like this, I want my story choices to matter, so I tend to play with only one save file. But that's pure suicide in this game. I can live with dying because I trusted the wrong person or made a wrong decision. That's on me. But it's really frustrating to die/not being able to finish missions because the water/darkness-magic guy isn't good enough at light magic in week 40. Like, how was I supposed to know that would become relevant? - The whole point of the player character is to be a neutral party in the palace. Which makes a lot of sense in-universe, but it causes the story to lack personal stakes. They aren't involved in any of the politics or palace intrigues. They are just reacting to everything happening around them with no own goals besides teaching the princes magic and not dying. - There are a lot of minor characters, who don't have character art and just get represented with black shapes. I understand why it is this way, but it still feels kinda weird to talk to 3 shadow entities for an entire scene. - There is no voice acting. To be fair, a lot of visual novels don't have voice acting, but the player character even has speaking animations, so it feels like it was supposed to be there. Using a guide, I'd give this game 8/10. I have my nitpicks, but definitely had a lot of fun with it and binged through a majority of the story. The characters are lovely and the world feels developed enough for me to start the spin-off/sequel afterwards.
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I've completed one romance route so far. The relationship development felt natural; I didn't expect to love their pairing as much as I did. Caught myself blushing at their interactions several times. I'm glad there were different gender options for the MC, even a custom name option. Some CGs include your chosen MC as well. The art is pretty good and I like the character designs. The gameplay and survival aspect wasn't hard to grasp, thankfully. You can find little stat icons in certain places, and these show you which stats you may want to focus on. Even if you raise the wrong stats, it's easy to reload to an earlier save. Side note: I never seemed to run out of save slots. There are multiple endings to explore, but if you're like me, you may find yourself emotionally attached to one T-T Overall it was a well-thought-out, enjoyable game. Worth the price and effort.
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Got my first death within about 30 minutes. Then got my first ending about 10 hours in. It's a fun game and the story is super interesting. I'm looking forward to exploring more storylines!
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What I like is the story and the different routes that I can take. I like that it's challenging and that I have to think. Some things i'm not quite happy with are the lack of pictures in the gallery. This is what I play for, those gallery pics lol. But the game is very fun although I played royal order before this one so the art style is somewhat of a setback but still wonderful. Overall, I would love to have some more games like this, like maybe the royal lady in waiting lol. Kidding, but I genuinely enjoy these games a great deal. Thanks
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came for the cute princes and stayed for the absolutely riveting plot and fun little mechanics of the game. even as a normally sore loser but i didnt mind dying, saving, reloading, and replaying just to experience new bits and bobs of the world and characters. the story's extremely well-written and hit a lot of good beats, funny and bittersweet and everything in between. pat on the back for the developers; yall the real ones
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Royal Alchemist is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.
Royal Alchemist is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.79€ on Steam.
Royal Alchemist received 288 positive votes out of a total of 305 achieving a rating of 8.65.
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Royal Alchemist was developed by Nifty Visuals and published by Nifty Productions.
Royal Alchemist is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Royal Alchemist is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Royal Alchemist is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Royal Alchemist is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Royal Alchemist. Explore additional content available for Royal Alchemist on Steam.
Royal Alchemist does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Royal Alchemist does not support Steam Remote Play.
Royal Alchemist is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Nifty Visuals
Publisher
Nifty Productions
Release
30 Apr 2020
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