Welcome to this week’s installment of F2P Friday, where we highlight our favorite Free-2-Play games. The video game market is oversaturated, and sometimes, hidden gems fall through the cracks. This is where we dig for you and feature a new F2P game we know you will enjoy every week. This week, we invest in the first chapter of A Tale of Crowns, a continuous visual novel with Middle Eastern roots.
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A Tale of Crowns
A Tale of Crowns by creator qeresî is a high fantasy romance with Middle Eastern roots that is playable on PC via Steam and Mobile through the browser. It’s entirely text-based, with choices to shape your main character’s personality and skills and influence their relationships with others. You can choose from four love interests, both female and male, each with their own stories and secrets for players to uncover.
This is an ongoing story, with new chapters added intermittently. Players should download their saved files with a “Save To Disk” option to ensure they do not have to restart any previous chapters when new content arrives. There are 12 chapters to play through as of the writing of this article.
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The Basics
Let’s get down to the basics of A Tale of Crowns. This is an ongoing, branching narrative visual novel with complex theming. The story takes place in Arsur, a fictional empire within a fantasy universe inspired by historical settings in the Middle East. Much of it is based on Kurdish culture, drawing from the creator’s experience as a Kurdish woman.
Your character is 25 years old and was born and raised in Arsur, where magic is a skill no different from reading or writing. Gender, sexual orientation and race have no bearing on social position or class. Instead, it’s only based on wealth and level of education.
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Why Should I Play?
Why should you play A Tale of Crowns? This game’s storywriting and world-building are intense, compelling and dynamic. The artwork has a lovely, striking style with richly developed characters. A Tale of Crowns is an epic fantasy experience that plays like a branching written novel, reinforcing that great fantasy exists beyond European-based fables.
This is a highly customizable self-insert fantasy novel with a refreshing Middle East setting. Players can customize their Crown’s name, pronouns, sexual orientation and magic skill. You can also change the Crown’s appearance. Hair color, hair texture, hairstyle, skin color, height and clothing style are all up to you and will be reflected in the story as well.
Ready to explore the Kingdom of Arsur? You can play all the released chapters of A Tale of Crowns for free on Itch.io in your browser here.
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