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For Players who enjoy voiced romance stories with fantasy settings and choices among several love interests: You play Aurora, an elemental facing a coming-of-age ceremony and rising tensions with a nearby human settlement, while pursuing a romance with one of five classmates. Tradeoff: The experience is centered on reading and romance, with a focused single-player visual novel format.
What it does best
role-playing (rpg)
simulator
visual novel
fantasy
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What you are walking into
Akash: Path of the Five is a professionally-produced, fully voiced otome visual novel. Players will become Aurora, a member of a magical race of elementals. As the first elemental girl the village has seen in over 200 years, all eyes are on her fast-approaching coming of age ceremony. All is not as it seems, however, as tensions between Akash and a nearby human settlement threaten to erupt into an all-out war. Cultivate a romance with one of her five classmates, navigate the coming conflict, and plan the greatest coming of age ceremony Akash has seen in over two centuries.
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