Creme de la Creme

Choice of Games LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

WINNER of the 2019 XYZZY Awards (Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story)

Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal?

Crème de la Crème is a 440,000-word interactive novel by Harris Powell-Smith, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Gallatin College is a "finishing school" where young people must learn social graces, surrounded by their high-class peers. When your parents fall into disgrace, the rest of high society rejects them. It's up to you to enroll at Gallatin, to secure your future and restore the family's good name.

At Gallatin, you'll dance with royalty, impress decorated officers, and perfect your etiquette. What will you prioritize: a spotless reputation, a prestigious social network, or a pristine report card–and who will you backstab to achieve it? Your year in this sparkling, brittle world is about to begin. But are you a rake soaked in scandal, or a perfectly proper socialite? Sneaking out of class or polishing your ballroom dancing, either way: the road to high society starts here!

• Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bisexual; monogamous or polyamorous; asexual and/or aromantic.
• Make a match with an aristocrat or royalty, develop a romantic connection with a fellow student, or fall for someone below your social standing.
• Enjoy a no-strings-attached fling, or propose a marriage of convenience with a friend.
• Join a clique - officially sanctioned by the college or decidedly not - and build its strength and standing.
• Distinguish yourself by achieving a place at university or on a competitive internship.
• Sabotage your classmates, or build friendships.
• Repair your family's reputation, or grind it into the dust.
• Uncover Gallatin College's dark secrets and reveal them to the world - or keep them under wraps.

Will you be the crème de la crème?

Ratings and reviews

Finished it... again. On the verge of happy tears... again. Standard fare for the course, I think. Looking forward to playing it again, and again, and again, and again. Also looking forward to sobbing like a baby repeatedly because I'm just so proud to have experienced a different course of action, a different playthrough... Whew. Good stuff.

The characters are so real. The plot twists are just- Wow. Everything about this novel is immersive and spectacular. Creme de la Creme is one of my favorites out of the many Hosted and CoG games I've played through. Every choice feels natural, leading to a satisfying ending that puts a close to the story at just the right time (though if it could, I'd never want it to end). :)

I originally intended to play this game as an emotionally distant, mildly sociopathic student out for his own gains - but I ended up getting way too attached to the characters and destroying myself emotionally - so that's fun. This game is great. The writing is fantastic, the plot advances steadily, and there's a multitude of decisions to make which all feel relevant yet uncumbersome. The ending I got left room for a sequel but was still extremely satisfying and made me feel terrible. Great job!

What's new

Fixed a bug (for real, this time) where the app could lose progress when the app goes into the background. If you enjoy "Creme de la Creme", please leave us a written review. It really helps!