- Telltale choices matter festival and important announcement! - 10 August 2026
Hello everyone, we are pleased to be part of Telltale choices matter festival Along many other game where your decisions shapes the outcome. We are especially honored since TellTale games are one of our inspiration
- Update Q2 2026 - 24 July 2026
Hello, Really good progress were made the last quarter, we have started the french betatesting we are currently fixing small bugs and typos and slowly shifting our efforts more on the translation part, we are also working on small additional quality of life features and additional writing like tutorials and dress up event.On the scripting area, the only remaining things are the spicy scenes which will have some special illustrations by our additional artist and requires a little more work. Among the extra feature, we are working on a flowchart to help people navigate the complexity of the game (yes, thinking about you people who 100% your games
- Update Q1 2026 - 24 April 2026
Hello everyone, before I dive in the regular quaterly update, I just want to say we currently have a temporary kofi shop open, you have until the 4th of May to grab our physical bookmarks, lore book and stickers before we send the order to the printer! I worked really hard on the lore book I'm so proud of the final result. If you have any questions you can consult our FAQ or ask me on discord! Now, for the progress: Ayael, why the fuck the percent are going downward, did you burn a scene or something??? No, I did not, I simply EXPLODED the estimated wordcount. We went from 215 000 words estimated (from the previous draft) to 281 404 words for the main script... I'm very satisfied of it, so even if there could be minor improvement from the editing the numbers shouldn't bulge from now on, the rest is smooth sailing!It's also time to introduce new trackers as we started to seriously tac…
- Q4 2025 progress - 1 January 2026
Hello everyone, as promise I am here to give you a quick update about the general advancement of the game. Despite some heavy health problem in the beginning of December the writing is going smoothly, we also have most of our outfits complete, I'm very happy with the current progress for the game! If you are interested in more developed devlog, I invite you to check our monthly update on Kickstarter, or our day-to-day progress on discord.The most attentive will probably notice that the EN editing went down, it's because I actually increased the word number I use as reference from 215 000 words to 220 000 words, so it lowered the overall percentage of everything, but it's particularly visible for this one since there has been no progress in this area specifically. As always thank you for your patience and your support, happy new year, may 2026 be favorable to you!
- Demo fixes and update - 18 November 2025
Hello, everyone, here is a quick log of all the fixes and changes made for version 3.1.0 of the demo.I initially started making this update, because someone noticed the main menu music was missing. The little story behind is that I play the game in mute because I constantly reload it, so it’s very unpleasant to have music cutting and starting again all the time, so I never realized I had removed this and the UI lmaoUltimately, it became much bigger as I had many quality of life improvement I wanted to make so the experience was as smooth as possible.Patch:Fixing music missing on main menu Fixing UI sound missing on buttons and other places (like the ellipses) Fixing “sound effect volume” and “UI volume” bar being the same (moving one was moving the other) Fixed the missing "loading in progress" when changing font, resulting in a weird freeze instead Fixing text overlap on the dyslexic f…
- October update - 2 October 2025
Hello hello everyone, I don't have the energy/time to post regular updates here, but I will try to do some rough quarterly updates from now on so players who doesn't follow us elsewhere aren't left in the dark about the game development. As a reminder, more detailed updates with snippets are available monthly in our Kickstater (they are public) and I post in live my own progress in Discord. Those two places are the most reliable and up to date source of news about the game. Those stats are highly approximative (especially for now where I don't have the final word count yet). They are a vague indicator to show the game is still in active development. (For example two months ago, writing would have been at 72% and outfit at 29%, we really are in a steady streak currently)! Music is 100% complete and thus doesn't appear in this chart. The rest of the writing (for example petitions) aren…
- Fixing achievement - 18 September 2025
The achievements are now fixed along with a few typos reported by our dear players. Thank you for your support and patience. If you played the demo while the achievements were not working, the game will automatically sync them all in one row when you unlock one. SPOILER : the first and easiest to achieve is picking "killing the guards" in the big choice at the end of prologue.
- New demo is here - 7 July 2025
Hello, I'm very pleased to announce the release of this new demo, which is the culmination of months of work. - New full-body sprites with arm and outfit variations - New customization options: outfits, jewelry, more hairstyles and every possible eye color! - New, more coherent backgrounds - Extensive staging work to make the result more dynamic - New, more elegant UI - Minor adjustments to text (new choices and a few sentences rewritten to be more fluid)Please note this build is NOT COMPATIBLE with the old saves, in theory they shouldn’t be detected but if they do show up, do not attempt to load old saves it will crash the game. This is still a demo, so several elements are not yet in place, notably certain mechanics (events and diplomacy). There are also a lot of outfits and accessibility options missing, which we plan to add later. If you'd like to follow the development more closely…
- Women led game fest - 9 December 2024
Proud to participate in the Women Led Game steam fest! Once again I have the pleasure of collaborating with other incredible VN dev, all very creative and impressive women! ❤️💪 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231680/Of_Sense_and_Soul/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139260/Asphodelium/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396400/Canvas_Menagerie/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2415010/A_Date_with_Death/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1804970/Crimson_Waves_on_the_Emerald_Sea/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/Lock__Key_A_Magical_Girl_Mystery /https://store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/Lock__Key_A_Magical_Girl_Mystery/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/844670/Please_Be_Happy/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3092190/Our_Home_My_Keeper/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1947030/Love_In_a_Bottle/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2894820/Velvet_Bite_Softly_with…
- Season of Pride - 24 November 2024
Hello everyone, we are very proud to be part of the Season of Pride steam event this year! As you know LGBTQ+ themes are important to our team and reflect in many way in the writing in the game, our team is also diverse and strive for inclusivity so we are thrilled to be part of such a positive event. We are even more happy to be features along with other incredible queer devs and games! ✨ Check them out and, if it’s your jam, wishlist them too, it helps so much ^^ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231680/Of_Sense_and_Soul/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2993720/Cage_of_Roses/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/Lock__Key_A_Magical_Girl_Mystery/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396400/Canvas_Menagerie/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139260/Asphodelium/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2537980/Drculeti/ Take care everyone!
- 👑 Meet Imperial Grace team 👑 - 5 February 2024
Ask us anything, discover some work in progress and just chat with the lead developer (Ayael), the co-writer (Aldéas), the editor and translator (Anna W.) and the game designer (Alexandre B.)
- Discover Imperial Grace demo with Sammi - 5 February 2024
Hello, I will be on stream watching Sammi, from otomeaddicted ruling Calidya! What kind of Empress she will be? Come join us for this demo let's play friday to discover it!
- Ask me anything - 31 January 2024
Ask us anything, discover some work in progress and just chat with the lead developper Ayael!
- We are part of the storyteller festival! - 29 January 2024
Imperial Grace is delighted to be taking part in the Storyteller Festival again this year! For the occasion, we will live stream Wednesday at 5PM GMT to talk about the game progress and our hopes for 2024. In the meantime, you can enjoy the lovely stream of RepearBabe7 which is still our best ambassador for our demo! But what if you already try our demo and are desperately wanting to play something? Well, I have just the thing for you because we are doing a collab with other awesome romance games! Don't hesitate to give them a try!
- Get medieval at the steam VN fest - 7 August 2023
Put your best dress, take your sword and go try some cool visual novel in the steam VN fest
- Raffle & fan work contest (and a very good news!) - 15 April 2023
Hello everyone It's been a week since our Kickstarter launch, and we are doing wonderfully!!! We raised 34 000€ so far, I can't tell how happy I am! It wouldn't be possible without you, and that's why we are hosting a raffle to celebrate this! Three people will win a "librarian" tiers, so if you don't have money to support us but shared our campaign everywhere it's your chance! More information in our last update. We are also hosting a fan creation contest if you don't like to rely on chance! But the biggest new is WE CAN NOW SMOOCH THE MASTER OF MURMURS!!!!!!!! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!!!! Since we have pass our initial goal, the game will be even better, since the following stretch goals have already been unlocked
- Demo bug fix + Mac version - 8 April 2023
Hello, I have finally uploaded the mac version on steam!!! I also fixed a few translation problem where french would suddenly popped. Take care, Ayael
- Notre Kickstarter commence !!! - 6 April 2023
THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!!! I forgot to make this post yesterday and we are already funded and reached our first stretch goal, I don't have enough words to say how happy and thankful I am. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT EVERYONE!!! The early-bird rewards are still available for a couple of hours, it's a huge discount so don't hesitate! We have still some cool stretch goals to unlock and the community goal (to unlock Master of Murmurs romance!) to reach so let's see how high we can bring this Kickstarter together!
- Imperial Grace extra scenes stream - 25 March 2023
Hello, we are very happy to be part of the Storyteller festival among many friends. For the occasion, we will live stream two extra scenes of the chapter 2, the 26th March at 8 PM (UTC+1). In those unreleased scenes you will meet Sophie and Yacine! We will also stream our other game, Ballads at Midnight tomorrow (but nothing new, just me gushing about our snarky couple :p)
- Imperial Grace Kickstarter + FAQ - 22 February 2023
KICKSTARTER Hello everyone, if you are part of our community, or follow us on social media, you might already know it but, Imperial Grace will run a Kickstarter !!! With the money we will be able to - Get new backgrounds - Get fullbody sprite - Create a romance for the Master of Murmurs ...and other surprises ~ Initially, I really wanted to pay everything by myself, but I can’t do it anymore because lifeTM happened. So instead, I decided to see it as a chance. A chance to do all the extra polishing stuff I couldn’t afford and now I am super hype about it! We made a survey to help us prepared the best campaign we can! (For example, we will probably only have 2 physical rewards and we want to prioritize the one YOU want.) It takes 5 mins to fill and as a thanks you will get a chance to win an early access game key for Imperial Grace! TAKE THE SURVEY You can also subscribe to our pre-lunch…
