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About This Game

...and Emile de la Roche is many things to many people.  A French aristocrat, leaving a slew of proposals unanswered in Calais.  A visiting bon vivant, sampling the finest of the Big Apple.  The 'Queen of France', a performer and fleeting star of the pansy scene.

The truth?  Emile de la Roche is an illiterate con artist.

He might not even be French.

And then Emile meets Alex Warren, a mobster's closeted son exiled from Seattle when family affairs got messy.  Rich, naïve and out of his depth in New York's underworld, it should be easy to rip him off and hop the next train.

And that's precisely what Emile and Jackie, his best friend and fixer, intend to do.

But you know how these stories go, right? 

Our heroes are con artists, thieves, and murderers. They’re Great War deserters and draft dodgers, carrying night terrors and trauma, and they're lying to survive every day.

In an era where prohibition forced the best of high society down into the same underground drinking holes as the lowest of the low, they may rub shoulders with old money or mobsters... but they're always faking it.

• An LGBTQ crime-capering romance set in the roaring twenties

• Script by award-winning stage & TV writer Conway McDermott

• Developed by an indie team of approximately three queers in a trenchcoat

• Hand-drawn CGs and sprites

• Original arrangements of jazz standards

• Serialized over 6 episodes, for a total estimated word count over 50,000

• Don't worry about making bad decisions, just enjoy the consequences - for now. Early episodes are mostly linear, but you never know what might come back to haunt you...

• Be gay

• Do crime

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains mature themes, including strong language, criminal activity, period-specific bigotry and homophobic slurs, use of alcohol, and depictions of violence. Use of slurs can be censored via the settings menu.

Future episodes of the game will include scenes with non-explicit sexual content. These may explore adult relationships, emotional manipulation, and morally ambiguous situations. All such content will be clearly signposted with content warnings and an option will be provided to censor sexual content via the settings menu.