Crème de la Crème Series

The Crème de la Crème games are bestselling text games published by Choice of Games. Think digital choose-your-path books: build your own character from appearance and personality to the skills that will help you succeed, and start your journey through the game. Along the way, forge or break bonds with unforgettable characters, build or destroy your reputation, and make tough, impactful choices for which there's no right answer.

The titles in the Crème de la Crème series have different player characters and can be played as standalones. Each one is different, but you can expect strict etiquette, social dilemmas, dark academia, intense emotions, sweet and spicy romance, and rich people behaving badly.

The Crème de la Crème series is set in a fantasy world, in various rarefied social circles. Much of the technological development would be recognisable to someone from 1930s Europe, though some aspects of the world are less or more advanced than that.

In the Crème de la Crème series, you can play as any gender. Although classism is rampant, their worlds are queer-friendly. Romances are accessible to all player characters regardless of gender—although characters can and will break up with you for unrelated reasons!

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Game 4: Honor Bound

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Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard for the children of the rich and famous! Return to the world of Crème de la Crème, this time as a military officer in the Republic of Teran.

Honor Bound is a 600,000 word interactive novel.

You've built a promising career in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to an injury, you’re no longer in the field. Thanks to the…complicated circumstances of that injury, you’ve been quietly reassigned. Now you’re to be the bodyguard to the child of a famous scientist who is attending a wilderness boarding school for the children of the richest and most powerful figures of society. This should be an easy assignment. The school sits close to your own hometown, so you’ll be familiar with the area; you can recover your health and get your career back on track. What could go wrong?

Bond with those around you or impress with aloof competence. Be a kind, trusted confidante to your charge, or a strict, stern caretaker. Work hard for glowing reports from your charge, your military superiors, or the Headteacher to get your life back on track—or risk it all as you uncover secrets that put you and everyone around you in danger.

Play as male, female, or nonbinary; cis or trans; gay, straight, or bisexual; asexual and/or aromantic; allosexual and/or alloromantic; monogamous or polyamorous.
Play a junior officer in your 20s, a mid-ranking officer in your 30s, or a senior officer in your 40s.
Befriend or romance a severe military officer, a bold, easygoing outdoors expert, a determined and overworked priest, an earnest but airheaded fellow bodyguard, or the anxious, serious widowed parent of your charge.
Shape the school life of your teenage charge: encourage her to make friends or sabotage her rivals, let her slack off or push her to achieve.
Protect the school, town, and your charge from natural disasters and criminals, or use chaos to further your agendas. Build a warm community, stand apart to focus on yourself, or push tensions higher in a place where gossip is rife.
Negotiate a cushy promotion, or open other doors, through heroic or devious actions. Or become such a disaster that only bandits will give you the time of day.
Unearth and thwart shadowy schemes, or enact them yourself for your own ends.

This tightly-knit desert boarding school is a sanctuary for artists and scientists of the future to flourish. But danger is closing in, and peril can come from inside as well as out.

How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?

Game 1: Crème de la Crème

Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal?

Crème de la Crème is a 440,000-word interactive novel. It won three 2019 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction, winning Best Game, Best Writing, and Best Story.

Gallatin College is a finishing school where young people must learn social graces, surrounded by their high-class peers. When your parents fall into disgrace, the rest of high society rejects them. It's up to you to enroll at Gallatin, to secure your future and restore the family's good name.

At Gallatin, you'll dance with royalty, impress decorated officers, and perfect your etiquette. What will you prioritize: a spotless reputation, a prestigious social network, or a pristine report card–and who will you backstab to achieve it? Your year in this sparkling, brittle world is about to begin. But are you a rake soaked in scandal, or a perfectly proper socialite? Sneaking out of class or polishing your ballroom dancing, either way: the road to high society starts here!

Winner of the 2019 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction (Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story).
Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bisexual; monogamous or polyamorous; asexual and/or aromantic.
Make a match with an aristocrat or royalty, develop a romantic connection with a fellow student, or fall for someone below your social standing.
Enjoy a no-strings-attached fling, or propose a marriage of convenience with a friend.
Join a clique—officially sanctioned by the college or decidedly not—and build its strength and standing.
Distinguish yourself by achieving a place at university or on a competitive internship.
Sabotage your classmates, or build friendships.
Repair your family's reputation, or grind it into the dust.
Uncover Gallatin College's dark secrets and reveal them to the world—or keep them under wraps.

Will you be the crème de la crème?

Game 2: Noblesse Oblige

Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love?

Noblesse Oblige is a 140,000-word interactive Gothic romance novella.

On a windswept island, far from the mild shores of Westerlin, stands the estate that is your new home. You have been hired to work as a conversation partner for a lonely aristocrat. It is a profitable opportunity, and your impoverished upbringing and middling university education leave you few others.

But secrets lurk in every darkened corridor, and nothing is what it seems. Why does your young charge go wandering in the middle of the night, haunted and mourning? What is in the letters that the charming new secretary constantly writes? Why is your employer so intent on keeping outsiders from prying into the family’s business?

Attend grand balls, ride through fast-paced fox hunts, spend jovial evenings with the servants, teach diligent lessons to your charge, and observe—or take part in—this northern land’s religious rituals. Meanwhile, there are webs of deceit for you to unravel, and deep mysteries to explore. When you reach the end, will you bring justice to those who deserve it, or keep their secrets buried forever?

And, of course, there is love: midnight trysts, stolen moments, and sweet warmth amid the cold. Your job on this remote island has just begun: will you work hard for a secure future or abandon everything to follow your heart?

Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bisexual; monogamous or polyamorous; asexual and/or aromantic.
Romance the forthright, flirtatious housekeeper who works hard and plays hard; your intense, zealous conversation partner desperate for tales of the outside world; or a charming, cultured stranger offering excitement and luxury but risking danger.
Connect with those outside the estate to make a future elsewhere.
Secure a shining reputation in your household, or shroud yourself in suspicion.
Build steadfast bonds of loyalty—or shatter them.

Can you trust your own heart?

Game 3: Royal Affairs

Work hard, study hard, and play hard as a royal in training at the exclusive Archambault Academy. Will you rule the roost, or be a royal disaster?

Royal Affairs is a 482,000-word interactive novel.

As the middle child of a royal family, you've led a sheltered life in the palace, but now you must spread your wings and prepare for your royal responsibilities. Term is about to begin at Archambault Academy and it's time for your big entrance.

Everyone knows your name, everyone has an opinion on what you do, and everyone views you as the face of the new generation of royalty. You’re being courted by every club and social group on campus; and there are countless students who would love to be your friend—or more.

Meanwhile, outside your school’s ivy-covered walls, trouble simmers across the country as activists fight to open voting rights beyond the aristocracy. You can use your influence to sway the Parliament’s decision—but in which direction?

Will you flaunt your fame, or retreat from the spotlight? And if you do seek publicity, will the papers love you or despise you? Will you honor centuries of royal tradition and follow the path that your mother the Queen has laid out for you, or be a force of change, leading your country in a new direction as you break free of the expectations laid on you all your life? How will you navigate intense family ties and political upheaval to come out on top?

Oh, yes, and there’s also the foreign royal that your mother wants you to marry. Who is in your class. And who happens to hate you.

Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bisexual; monogamous or polyamorous; asexual and/or aromantic.
Cuddle and train your pet: a horse, dog, or bird of prey.
Put on a lavish play, become a sports star, or run Student Council—and bring fame or disrepute to your school.
Help fix your classmates' problems, or make them worse.
Make a savvy political marriage, fall in love with the wrong person for the right reasons, or make friendships that will last for life.
Help rebels work for a different future, or stamp them out with scheming and deceit.

Will you embrace responsibility or forge your own path?