An epic 12-day journey across feudal lands. You are a masterless samurai hired to protect Princess Lina on her return to the Dojing capital. Face ambushes, treachery, and political intrigue as you escort her home.
At a glance
- Genre
- Historical · Action · Political
- Format
- Playable interactive novel — narrated live by an AI dungeon master
- Length
- Open-ended — pacing scales to your choices
- Players
- Solo or 2–6 player multiplayer party (multiplayer hosting requires Library Pass)
- Difficulty
- Adaptive — survival mechanics tighten or relax based on your actions. Hardcore permadeath available.
- Access
- Free
- Platforms
- Web (dovorite.com) and native iOS / Android apps
- Language
- English
How it plays
In The Princess and the Ronin, you create a character with a point-buy stat spread, then trade blows with the AI dungeon master through stat-modified dice rolls; steer conversations with Charisma rolls and watch relationships shift turn by turn; navigate a world bound by real customs, politics, and consequence. The AI dungeon master (GPT-4o, with Gemini 2.5 Flash as a fast fallback) narrates each scene, reacts to your typed or spoken actions, and calls for dice rolls when the outcome is uncertain.
Your inventory, gold, health, and 15 equipment slots update automatically from the narrative — pick up a sword in chapter one and the AI remembers you have it in chapter four. Food, rest, potions, and healing magic each affect survival in distinct ways, and difficulty adapts to how aggressively you play. In hardcore mode death is permanent; in standard mode you can rejoin the story through the Resurrection system.
What players say
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