Honor Bound

Choice of Games LLC

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About this game

Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard for the children of the rich and famous! Return to the world of Crème de la Crème, this time as a military officer in the Republic of Teran.

"Honor Bound" is an interactive novel by Harris Powell-Smith where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, 595,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

You've built a promising career in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to an injury, you’re no longer in the field. Thanks to the complicated (read, scandalous) circumstances of that injury, you’ve been quietly reassigned as a bodyguard for the teenage child of a famous scientist. This should be an easy assignment: your charge is at boarding school in the wilderness, an exclusive sanctuary where the children of the rich and powerful become artists and scientists of the future. The school sits close to your own hometown, so you’ll be familiar with the area. Finally, you can recover your health and get your career back on track.

But danger is closing in, and peril can come from inside as well as out. What secret projects are your colleagues pursuing in the dead of night? What is your commanding officer not telling you? Bandits lurk in the wilderness—including one of your childhood friends!—and natural disasters constantly threaten the fragile environment. And then there’s the danger to your heart, from the complicated feelings that come from returning to your birthplace, and from adjusting to the new reality of your life. Can you really go home again?

Build a warm community and bond with your colleagues, or impress everyone with your aloof competence. Chase ambition to receive glowing reports and get your life back on track—or become such a disaster that only bandits will tolerate your presence. Or, just maybe, you will have to risk it all for the sake of doing the right thing.

• Play as male, female, or nonbinary; cis or trans; gay, straight, or bisexual; asexual and/or aromantic; allosexual and/or alloromantic; monogamous or polyamorous.
• Customize your age: play a junior officer in your 20s, a mid-ranking officer in your 30s, or a senior officer in your 40s.
• Befriend or romance a severe military officer; a bold, easygoing outdoors expert; a determined and overworked priest; an earnest but scatterbrained fellow bodyguard; a childhood friend turned disgraced bandit; or the anxious, serious widowed parent of your charge.
• Pet the dog, the cat, or both.
• Meet the main characters of "Crème de la Crème," "Royal Affairs," and "Noblesse Oblige," and find out what their lives are like now!
• Shape the school life of your teenage charge: encourage her to make friends or sabotage her rivals; let her slack off or push her to achieve; and get caught up in boarding-school drama.
• Unearth and thwart shadowy schemes—or join in the scheming for your own gain.

How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?

Ratings and reviews

I've only completed one play-through, but this has been great. Knowledge from the previous crème games can enhance this one, but isn't neccessary! This is my favorite of the lot, so far. There's a large range of options, and the story is engaging & not too simple. Some stories feel like treading the same tired path even when you make different choices, if you don't "fail" outright... But I have a good feeling about my next playthrough on this one. Definitely looking forward to it!

Loved it! It was very well-written, and I enjoyed the subtle differences in certain scenarios depending on who I romanced (if anyone at all). There were a few grammar mistakes, but only enough to count on one hand. The different romance routes and the epilogues with them made me really want to follow the mc and their romance life in a more domestic setting! I also, of course, enjoyed the character customization.

Loved this game! The character customization was incredible, the pacing was just right and the plot, characters, and romances are fun. I was especially impressed by how even when it was clear I had "failed" a check it still lead to interesting and satisfying narrative moments. I never felt like the game was punishing me for making the wrong choices, so that freed me up to make choices I felt werent the "right" ones but matched what I thought my character would do. Highly recommend!

What’s new

Several bugfixes. If you enjoy "Honor Bound", please leave us a written review. It really helps!