The Gilded Lady: Life and Love in a Cyborg Shop

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Live a day-in-the-life of a cyborg mechanic in a soft-apocalyptic future where disease is staved off with hard work and metal parts. Choose your person, romantic or otherwise, and walk their unique path through the walled city. Manage the shop and grow your future in one of 6 separate endings.

The Gilded Lady is a sci-fi otome/ vn about technology, society, and an individual's place within them.

Play as Eliza Clemens, a cyborg mechanic (name and appearance customizable), living day-to-day in one of the few remaining cities on Earth. As climate collapse and disease have reshaped society, Eliza's shop, The Gilded Lady, installs cybernetic replacement limbs for sufferers of Neo-leprosy, a devastating redux of that old end-of-days affliction.

But the fragile balance that keeps life survivable is suddenly upset by a technological breakthrough. And Eliza must choose who to face it with.

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Alex Thompson Eliza has worked side-by-side for several years with her funny, dependable assistant and protégé, Alex Thompson. They've both been content with this arrangement until he is confronted with suffering that just not profitable for the free market to alleviate. What is the right balance of generosity and self-preservation in a world that is indifferent to both?
Casey McKenzie Casey McKenzie has been Eliza's best friend since grade school. She's always been heady and philosophical, which is a common affliction among the well-educated in a world with colossal technology dependence and abysmal birth rates. But, to her surprise, Casey finds herself among that narrowing demographic of women who get pregnant naturally. Will Eliza join her as a platonic co-parent and confront the last and greatest un-automatable problem?
Alma De La MerEven as she's grown up, Eliza never completely left behind her love of all things bold, wild, and dangerous. Alma De La Mer, the fiery queen of the scavengers, is just that. Alma wants to leave the safety of the walled city to build egalitarian, self-sustaining communities built on the sweat of her followers' brows. But will the cost of freedom be worth it?