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Back in May 2025, Hanako Games announced a successor to its devastatingly difficult Princess Maker style game Long Live the Queen called Galaxy Princess Zorana. After a successful Kickstarter to help fund development, it now has a release date. We’ll help a new princess become an empress and survive deadly situations on November 21, 2025. The Steam page is already live.
In Galaxy Princess Zorana, we’ll use our character-raising and Princess Maker stat-management skills to help Zorana win the Imperial Election and become ruler of the Celestial Empire following her father’s death. This means training her in various fields, visiting different planets in the empire, interacting with important individuals, finding cabinet members, securing votes, perhaps getting engaged, and staying alive. Because like Long Live the Queen, there will be constant skill checks to see if Zorana is accomplished and knowledgeable enough to handle situations well and survive dangers like assassination attempts.
Post-launch, there will be free updates to the simulation. The announcement noted these will be based on Kickstarter stretch goals. Among those were a new plotline that offered a different path that would see Zorana becoming a rebellion leader who attempts to help end the monarchy, rather than continue it as a new empress.
Galaxy Princess Zorana will head to the PC on November 21, 2025, and the previous entry Long Live the Queen is available on the Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.
