Empress's Choice 12+

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!

Overall I really enjoyed this game! My community was super amazing (tho I’ve heard otherwise from different servers) and I really enjoyed the early plot and a lot of mechanics. The outfits are fun and very pretty, and I like the many servants and general progression mechanics.
The plot of the story, however, is repetitive and boring after a time. The emperor is frustrating (I have never hated a man more, he’s so stupid) and there are so many more minor characters (mostly the four love interests) that are so much more engaging but get little time to shine on their own. I also really hated how much irl money was necessary to gain items during events, as you could save 4000 gold and still not be able to make enough in a event to get a cool outfit.
I may go back to play this game eventually but I got frustrated and wasn’t having fun. The community kept me going as long as it was (shout out to royal from server 66!), I just wish the plot was more engaging and didn’t require quite so much saving up.