Of course, I hope people will love it, I know some will hate it too and it’s okay, art is supposed to create emotions, good or bad, and if people feel something it’s still a win.

Of course, I wish it was perfect, I can see all the little flaws, the small features I couldn’t do, the staging I couldn’t polish, the typos that I know still exists somewhere despite rounds and rounds of proofreading. It used to make me anxious, but now I kinda love those imperfections. They are crumbs of humanity, testament of someone typing too fast, of my priorities, or just humans choosing to do something the wrong way because it feels right.

Of course, I plan to keep improving the game for the year to come, but in the meantime, I love it as it is now, and I am so happy to share it with all of you.

In this celebratory moment, I am not alone. There is my relatives and the team of course, our publisher Abiding bridge that helped us so much during this month, our dear players who never stopped believing in us despite the years and all my fellow developers who gave advice, hold my hand during anxiety crisis or simply encouraged me.

Thank you, to them, to you, thank you for being there with me.

To celebrate this moment with all of you, I will be live tomorrow (Thursday 8PM UTC+1) on our discord[discord.gg] (will try to set the diffusion on steam too). We will look at the first 24h sales, read the first reviews, and just talk about the release and the future of Imperial Grace.

Given the solidarity I mentioned earlier was an evidence for us to do some partnership for our release, I’m honored today to announce our two bundles:

• First, with Royal Order, a game I personally adore, I played it so much I have spreadsheet to min-max the stat-raising aspect and I think all the royal intrigue enjoyers will love it as much.

  https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/91604/Imperial_Order/

• Second is actually a collection of games under the banner “visual novel in French”. As you know I am French and the genre is not very recognized yet in my own country, with Imperial Grace and this bundle I really hope it becomes more popular <3

  They are all amazing games with very different kind of vibes and story, all crafted with the same love and care than we put in Imperial Grace, please give them a chance too so one day visual novel take over the world get the love they deserve.

  https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/96464/Rendezvous_Francais/

I have received tons of lovely comments asking how to support us, so here is a few things you can do if you wish.

- Consider buying the deluxe edition if you can afford it, all the extra content were crafted with the same care and love than the game <3

- Leave us a review*! They are so important for visibility, and I love reading them!

- Tell your friends, your favorite content creator and spread the words on social media!

*Some info about reviews: Reviews are super important on steam, but unfortunately they do not count if the product was gifted. Meaning, if you gift the game to your friend or if you are a backer who received an activation key it won’t count toward the total numbers of reviews in the “very positive” rating.

Still, it’s not because the algorithm doesn’t care that I don’t. I have read every single comment on our itch.io so far and it matters to me, it’s a fuel and I can’t wait to read them. Plus, it might be the review that convince someone to play so it’s not for nothing <3

If you are too shy to leave a public review but still want to express your love for the game you can join our newsletter[synstoria.com] and reply to one of the email to reach me directly. (Sorry I can’t leave my mail publicly anymore because of the spammers).

Congratulation for reading this far, I hope the game does well financially, but no matter what happen now, it was a beautiful journey and I’m glad I was part of it.

Thank you, I wish you all a beautiful day,

Ayael