Palais de Reine
Released Jun 2020
Diplomatic queen simulation + medieval fantasy romance. As the sole heiress to the late king, you must show that you have what it takes to rule the kingdom. Or perhaps you'd prefer to take one of your nobles as a consort?
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High confidence
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Steam $29.99
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Evaluation
Palais de Reine is a port of a 2006 visual novel / simulation game that launched on Steam on June 17, 2020. Since launch, all developer activity has consisted entirely of maintenance patches: fixing a debug mode left on by accident, correcting display scaling issues, cleaning up leftover content fragments from the original game's upscaling process, adding Chinese language support in November 2020, and most recently addressing an antivirus false positive on November 26, 2024. There have been no major content updates, no announced expansions or DLC, no roadmaps, and no developer statements about future content plans. The game was originally released in 2006 and the Steam version is a polished re-release of that complete product. All post-launch activity points to a finished game receiving occasional technical upkeep rather than ongoing content development.
Evidence
Developer notes the Steam version differs from the original 2006 non-Steam release due to removed content during upscaling; patch cleans up leftover content fragments. Confirms this is a port of a completed 2006 game.
Simplified and traditional Chinese language support added. Last substantive post-launch change to game content.
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Developer
Publisher
KOMODO
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Platform
Windows
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Palais de Reine is a diplomatic queen simulation + medieval fantasy romance.
As Filia, the sole heiress to the late king, you should have inherited the throne immediately, but the nobles in your court strongly doubt your fitness. After much bickering, they decide to give you one year (no more, no less) to prove your worth.
During this trial, you may choose four nobles to help you lead your country to prosperity, showing all who doubted you just how wrong they were.
...Or, you can let your heart betray you, and take one as your consort.
The fate of the land lies in your hands! What kind of queen will you be?
Defend Your Birthright
As the sole remaining direct descendant of the hallowed King of Knights, your destiny is to unite the divided kingdoms and bring all to bear under the flag of the honorable Tableronde name. The catch is, few are willing to entrust their affairs to a sheltered princess thrust into a position of rule with no training and no forewarning...Summon Your Loyalists
Choose four nobles to aid your campaign from a wide variety of candidates, including a devoted childhood friend with little tact or knowledge but an excess of heart, a dark elven diplomat from a sequestered land with questionable motives, and even a wolfman unaccustomed to the ways of the human world...
Prove Your Worth
Part visual novel, part strategic simulation, you must send your men on quests to the neighboring kingdoms -- be they trusted allies or fearsome foes -- to win their support through whatever means are necessary. Show the rulers of these divided lands that you can unite them all under one banner, just as your famed ancestor did so long ago!Discover Your Soulmate
Tableronde can be left without a proper ruler for only a year before opportunists would swoop in to fill the void of power, so that's precisely how long Filia is given to either take the throne through decisive action or accept the marriage proposal of the lecherous Councilor Diektor and pass all her authority to him. Or, perhaps, if she herself is unwilling to take on these duties, there may be another, more worthy knight to inherit them through a marriage founded upon true love? It's up to you to determine if, and how, your power is to be distributed... and whether to strive for personal happiness, historic leadership, or the ultimate dream of both...
Attention
This game is a remastered version of a game that was originally released as a PC game by Kogado Studio in 2006 and ported to PS2 by GungHo Works.Due to the lack of resolution in some materials during the remastering process, certain features were unable to be implemented. (changing clothes, changing patterns)
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Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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