Alliance Arts, developer One or EIGHT, and WSS Playground, unveiled The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily, a “Villainess x Streamer” turn-based strategy game that is set to launch for PC via Steam in January 2024. The game will be available with English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language support.
In The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily, players assume the role of the villainess, Scarlet, who is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Imperial Army, must utilize the art of broadcasting to her advantage. Through the dissemination of fake news and diversion tactics, players secure advancement routes and sever supply lines to tip the scales of battle in their favor.
▍The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily Trailer
▍The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily Gameplay
Set in the heart of the Imperial Kingdom, the story revolves around its duchess, Scarlet, who is falsely accused of the king’s murder. Her fate leads her to Lily, a girl with knowledge of advanced streaming technology and the owner of a potent aerial warship. This technology transforms Scarlet into the realm’s first streamer, and she sets on her path of vengeance against her former home.
In this turn-based strategy game, players control Scarlet’s rebellion against the Imperial Kingdom, which is visualized in eye-catching voxel-based art. The unique mechanic of Streaming allows players to control the battlefield, instigate, and distract to secure tactical advantages. The game also offers the ability to capture enemy commanders, turning them into allies, and also highlights the value of increasing trust with your units, leading to stronger allies and, sometimes, new abilities.
The game intertwines strategic gameplay with its storytelling, delving into the characters’ bonds, including portrayals of romantic relationships between women.
▍The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily Main Characters
■ Elizabeth Scarlet Penrose
– “My heart that you took, how can I regain it?”
A graceful beauty, born into a noble family but disregarding the education of a lady, she behaves as she wishes in male attire. Falsely accused of regicide and condemned to death, she defies fate by traveling back in time to the moments before her execution. There, she meets a girl named Lily, and together they escape a dire situation. Utilizing an aerial warship with the ability to “stream”, they challenge the Imperial Kingdom in battle.
■ Lilie Weidling
– “Nice Scarlet! You do you!”
The mysterious girl with the technology to Stream. Makes a miraculous encounter with Scarlet, and begins a journey to find her own story.
■ Primula Graybolt
– “Oh my lady Scarlet… You do like to be silly”
The third daughter of the Marquis Greybolt, who owns vast lands in the suburban area. She is a classmate of Scarlet at a public school. As a noblewoman living in the Imperial Kingdom, she has cultivated etiquette and education, believing to support a husband whom she will marry in the future is the right thing to do.
■ Gwyn Grosvenor
– “It’s such a pity Scarlet. I thought you were a clever girl”
The first child of the Imperial King. Serious, sincere, and hardworking. Eager to be recognized by his father, the king, and the business world he has been improving his studies and fighting skills since childhood. He has been active as a member of the Imperial Diet since he was a university student, and his brilliance has been named him the “ace card of the royal family”.
