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Love the Guard, Be the King

The Kingdom and its future monarch are in your hands. The choice is yours. Love the Guard or be the king?

30 April 2026

Love the Guard, Be the King is an indie, released 30 April 2026 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Love the Guard, Be the King is

Love the Guard, Be the King was released in 2026. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on renpy.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mathia's heart has been bleeding since his father, the former King, decided to punish you for his mistakes. As the youngest child of a lesser bourgeois, you were raised in the castle, between the King’s cruelty, the Queen’s friendship, and Mathias’s kindness (or supposed kindness?). Now, more than twenty Carnivals since your arrival, the King is dead and the Queen’s sickness worsens each day. As the azure taint spreads in the kingdom and the Opalean Wars come to an end, it’s Mathias’s time to sit on the throne. Will the docile Prince become a kind King, a violent Monarch, or a ruthless Tyrant? Will you have any say in it? And how much will your relationship change? Develop your personality…
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Love the Guard, Be the King launched on 30 April 2026, within three weeks of Pragmata, Replaced, Forza Horizon 6 and Directive 8020.

Released around the same time: Pragmata, Replaced, Forza Horizon 6, Directive 8020.

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When did Love the Guard, Be the King come out?
Love the Guard, Be the King was released on 30 April 2026 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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