Find a trailer below.

The gist: you are Emperor Hong of the Crimson Empire.

The Crimson Empire itself is a picturesque quagmire of argumentative nobles, upstart peasants and uncollected taxes.

An emperor clutching a dead woman with scary demon ladies behind him in My Lovely Empress

You don’t appear to have access to any professional grief counsellors, not even avampire with CBT training.

I guess crazy widowers are GameChanger’s house style.

According toits Steam page, the game takes heavy inspiration from East and Southeast Asia mythology.

Cover image for YouTube video

It certainly looks a treat, with visuals that remind me a little ofDarkest Dungeonand Hades.

It’s out on 21st August.

Anybody here played any of the other My Lovelies?

How Lovely are they, exactly, on a scale of “inoffensive” to “gorgeous”?

I do relish a calculatedly unpleasant spin on the management genre, which tends to skew anodyne.