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The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is a turn-based strategy game. Framed for murdering the Emperor, villainess Scarlet and Lily, fight the Empire as the first Streamers in history. Capture every enemy and turn them into allies for a happy ending... Or execute everyone and become the Demon Queen!
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is a turn-based tactics, female protagonist and tactical rpg game
developed by Alliance Arts, One or Eight and WSS playground
and published by Alliance Arts.
Released on July 23rd 2025 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 906 reviews of which 792 were positive and 114 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10, 11 (64bit)
- Processor: Core™ i5-9400
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
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Do you want a game about revolutionary lesbians rising up against fascism and standing up for the people who fascism aims to exclude? Then you should get this.
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I rate the game 7/10 I had a fun time with the game, but fair warning, this game is very grindy... (On strategic mode) Do your self a favor and go genocide route for your first run, its easier to grind two character than a whole roster. The game on strategic mode actively PUNISHES good strategy. If you actually strategize and minimize the amount fights you take, congrats- you will be out leveled by enemies in the next act. The game expects you to just grind the infinite spawning enemies so you can get enough EXP for each character. This game loves throwing enemies via power creep. You have lvl 20 troops? Now you have lvl 27 grunts to fight. Also, the capture mechanic is just too tedious. You need to take your Airship and go on (Capture stance) Then you have to enter combat and lower their hp to red, and then use the stun skill from the mc Simple right? No, since you only have 3 turns in combat. And if you disengage? They will full heal next turn since they are in a 5 star fort. Oh, your airship has an ability to make the area have no regen, so guess what? You can only use one ability at a time. So if you want to capture, you have to turn off the no regen skill, to go capture skill. This is normally not an issue since you can just send 5 heroes and bumrush the capture target, then the fight ends with the capture. But what if you have 2 enemies that you need to capture in the same fight? You will encounter in Act 3 a fight where you have to capture two characters. One can make troops invulnerable for 1 turn, and the other will one shot your entire army in turn 2. The only way to mitigate this is to use the mc's stun. Which is a 50/50. This requires you to save scum so much if you want to get one of the good endings. The combat is alright, but it is also a bit too much. 3 turns of combat? I don't mind, but the enemy troops have max mp at the start of the fight letting them use their ultimates at the start of the fight. This forces you to guard, which gives you mp, but they can repeatedly use their ult if you are unlucky. In Act 3 you will encounter a lvl 30 cavalry that has an aoe skill that is as good as the main character's ult which she can only use on turn 3 of combat. And again, if you didn't grind it out then you will be under leveled. You can fight one, but two of them in a stack is just a death sentence. If you want to play the game and value your time, play on Easy mode. It just makes the fights easier, and less grindy. People will be toxic and tell you that "only real gamers play on strategic mode", play Easy mode if you are in for the story (which is actually pretty good, some sections actually surprised me), the narrative set pieces are really good. If you play strategy games for the strategy, I do not recommended in Strategic mode. But if you are into the grind, the game is actually pretty good for that. It reminds me of the repeating instances like in Fire emblem.
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The game is great and worth playing. Its far from perfectly crafted, which I will explain shortly, but it's core is well conceived, the dialogue entertaining, and it's overall strategically interesting. Like 8/10 or so, everything from here on out is more specific and, in some ways, functions like developer feedback. For critiques, first of all the game is hard, and expects you to lose, a lot. This is generally fine, even conceptually, with the frequent auto saving making "resetting" a smooth experience. However, enemies do feel overtuned in some ways. Strong enemies are meant to be chipped away at while their supply lines are cut off, but sometimes even doing minimal damage is difficult, and it especially becomes a problem when attacking those who camp on the enemy base since you can't cut off their supplies (permanently, early on you obtain a means to do it in 3 turn bursts). And if you can't cut off supplies for extended periods of time, then they can heal something like 75% of their health per turn. This is compounded by being constantly underleveled. Allies don't scale up quick enough to match enemies shortly after they are recruited, and at times it is almost necessary to use everyone to maintain lines or cut them off. This is in part because, at least as far as I've paid attention, experience is only given if units live through a battle in which an enemy dies, and not just for participating, meaning you have to deliberately feed kills to gain levels, certainly a non-trivial thing to do. Some mix of boosting the gain for defeating higher-level opponents, and boosting everyone to a base level for every act, would fix this. Also enemies hit very hard, which contributes to making it difficult to wear them down, but that's less important imo. A new game+ would be nice, that carries over ally stats, for two reasons: making getting other endings easier, and for bonding conversations. Most of those conversations will not be seen in a single playthrough without significant, excessive grinding, so even if carrying over stats is too much, there should be an option for those conversations at least. Even if I used easy mode for repeat playthroughs for strategic ease, I still wouldn't get those conversations. Or I guess the point threshold could be decreased, but that part actually feels fine, just the inability to get all of them is disappointing. Sequence breaking seems oddly easy. The game guides you towards using certain strategies, but depending on circumstance the guidelines can be subverted. This can apparently lead to some issues though, of which I will provide two examples. 1) For the artillery wall in my first playthrough, I pursued attacking from every direction simultaneously. Below the wall, around the wall, and once around the wall also prodding at the back line of the enemy. Somehow someway, this lead to an entire character and event sequence not occurring. This not only made that battle harder, but also locked me out of the recruit everyone ending, which I didn't find out about until the end of the game because I didn't know about the existence of an entire character. I am currently unlikely to actually replay the game to get that ending (I guess I could try easy mode, but it would still be too long of a repetitive experience for it to be worthwhile to me). 2) For a recruit no one playthrough, towards the end there is an enemy who is within the plot functionally stalling for time. However, you are working with two units the entire playthrough for that ending (and additionally less broadcasts to utilize), which makes maintaining supply lines rather difficult even as Scarlet becomes able to one round nearly every battle. As such, considering what the enemies do during this segment as well, I rushed the boss. But this cut out most of the following event sequence, which also prevented two bosses from spawning, and because Scarlet powers up by killing bosses, this made the final boss harder, to the point where it was a thin margin by which I could actually survive a round, which from there I could then whittle him down. Anyways, while it makes sense to have consequences for not following event sequences, it was also unpleasant when that happened. I think the stun skill should either have a 100% success rate or have its cost reduced to 2. Too many times I found myself needing to reset banking on a 50/50 chance to stun on a particular round, or feeling restricted in my skill point usage for the sake of capturing enemies. The game feels short. I all takes place on one continent, one "map." It would have been nice for there to have been a second part to the plot that took place on a different continent, something which the plot seems to imply might happen, but it is only the story of the revolutionary war and nothing beyond. There wouldn't even need to be new recruitable characters, just the ones you already have. But maybe the recruit everyone ending has things I'm missing out on, since I haven't gotten it. The ability to skip the intro tutorial after playing it once would be nice. A 2x or 2.5x combat speed is necessary. 1x is slow once you get the feel of things, naturally, but 4x goes by so fast what happens is barely parseable. A third, middle speed would be perfect. I think that about covers it. Good game, had a fun time. Recommended.
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Yuri Is Love, Yuri Is Life Story is good, the girls so nice Unfamiliar art, music is fine The game is hard, still fun to play.
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Played the hell out of the demo and have been watching this like a hawk, so I booted it up on purchase just to leave this review early. Game's great, presentation is excellent, writing is fantastically unhinged, and the gameplay is so weirdly unique and satisfying, I love it. People have been complaining since the first demo about how hard the first level is, and I'm not going to bother harping on them here, but the team literally wrote a guide on how to beat it if you need help, just open the "guides" section or play on Easy until you have a hang of the mechanics. Strategy difficulty is satisfying to play if you're willing to put aside your ego about how good you are at video games and accept that you're *supposed* to die sometimes, that's literally the core conceit. You have to fail to learn sometimes, sorry. The game autosaves constantly, you're really not losing out on much. All in all, fantastic game, judging by the demo content (so, uh, two maps I guess lol). Can't wait to sink my teeth into it and give a proper review further down the line. Shame progress from the newest demo doesn't seem to carry over, though.
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The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily received 792 positive votes out of a total of 906 achieving a rating of 8.26.
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The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily was developed by Alliance Arts, One or Eight and WSS playground and published by Alliance Arts.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is not playable on MacOS.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is not playable on Linux.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily. Explore additional content available for The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily on Steam.
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Developer
Alliance Arts,
One or Eight,
WSS playground
Publisher
Alliance Arts
Release
23 Jul 2025
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