Speakeasy
Romance, Drama, Otome · by Open Late Games · 2023
In 1920s Los Angeles, a runaway heiress falls into the glittering world of an illegal jazz club and must decide who to love and how far to fall.
Who it's for: Adults who want a long, glamorous and dark period romance with lots of routes and real consequences.
The story (spoiler-free)
Cora West walks into a secret jazz club in Prohibition-era Los Angeles and finds a world of money, music and danger. The people running it, performing in it and circling it all want something from her, and many of them are worth falling for.
Speakeasy is a long, choice-heavy romance. After a common route there are six romance routes: four with single male love interests, one sapphic and one polyamorous route with two men. All routes are open from the start, so you can play them in any order, though the developers suggest leaving Vincent Harlowe's for last. Your decisions also decide whether Cora rises in the city's underworld or comes apart in it, across 19 endings.
The writing leans into period glamour and dark drama: addiction, crime and betrayal sit next to tender and steamy scenes. There is one edition: the explicit scenes are in both the Steam and itch.io versions, and a sexual-content toggle, with scenes rewritten for the 'off' setting in v2.0, lets you play without them.
Where to play
Why play it
- +Lush 1920s setting with a strong noir mood
- +Large, varied cast including male, female and poly routes
- +Many endings, including ambitious and ruinous ones
- +Accessibility options and a sexual-content toggle in v2.0
Keep in mind
- −Heavy themes (drugs, death, suicide) throughout
- −Long: the developers estimate about 35 hours to see every scene and ending; a walkthrough helps for specific endings
- −No Android or console version; Linux build only on itch.io
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