Empress's Choice

I have been logging in everyday for half a year now, and honestly its just because the game is so refreshing compared to other ones. No ingame ads, you dont have to pay to enjoy the game (havent spent a cent,) the plot is interesting and theres hella tea (drama) and the outfits are really fun to create once you have a good wardrobe built up. Admittedly it is repetitive and there is some daily grinding, but they make it easier as you progress, and all the people in my server are really nice and it creates a relaxing atmosphere. Its a fun game to play if you have the time to waste. You probably wont ever become empress tho lol Edit: I have tried playing many other empress games and always got stuck at some point and couldnt progress because of certain paywalls, which hasnt happened to me yet, so i would recommend this over other similar games.. looking at you revenge of the queen 🙄

I played this game for about 3/4s of a year, and it was honestly really time consuming. I would spend 2-4 hours everyday on this game, and while it was rewarding at first, after a while it just became brain-numbing. The story is alright, but it’s hard to get prestige to play the story. There’s a lot of other things to do, but most of them have long refill times, and it’s nearly impossible to get everything done in less than an hour, so if that’s what you’re looking for, this is not it. It’s fairly easy to get ingots as a F2P player as long as you don’t spend them everyday (gaining around 800 daily) but you would still need 20k AT LEAST to complete any limited events, and there’s hardly ever a break between events to stock up on ingots again. Also, they only merged servers for events, so if you’re in a dead server, good luck being able to do Opera or Banquets, and you might as well say bye bye to Fashionfest because it won’t even start if not enough players signed up for it. There are some goods things though- the outfits are awesome and you get a free 4 star outfit every month for logging in, and I met some really great people in my server, although there’s like a 50/50 chance of getting a good server, since I've heard some are really toxic. I know I have a lot of complaints and not many compliments, but overall I did enjoy my time and I think that it’s worth a try. I don’t write reviews that often, but I do hope this helps!

** for anyone wondering, no, this game isn't like the ads at all. I don't recommend it if you were hoping for that kind of game. I'm not going to judge based off that though, since it's common practice with advertising anyway and I sort of knew what to expect already when I downloaded it. I'mjust judging based off what's actually in the game.** I'm not that far in, but so far the art seems nice and the story is engaging. I'm not so clear about the actual "game" portion of it, though. The tutorial is still holding my hand through every action even after chapter 1 ended and I still feel like I have no idea what's going on. I keep getting new item after new item when I'm still not sure what the last one was supposed to do, there's a bunch of different currency for several different things off the bat, and overall I just don't quite get how it all affects the story besides the couple of "games" where you just hope to have a higher number than the opponent. It's just a lot of systems and moving parts at once, and I really can't figure out how they all slot together. Maybe it's just normal for these types of games and I'm not yet used to them? In any case, at the very least it doesn't actually seem to be hindering me at all. As far as I can tell, the game tells me to tap this button, and that button, and then I play the story and it all works out without any effort on my part. I'm a bit nervous for when the gameplay gets harder, but maybe I'll understand it better by then? I hope so, anyway.