History Videogame / PrincessMaker

''Princess Maker'' is a series of video games made by Creator/StudioGainax. The basic idea behind the games were fairly simple: Taking the pacing from ConstructionAndManagementGames like ''VideoGame/SimCity'', combine it with the CharacterLevel system from ''Franchise/DragonQuest'', and then scale the scope back until the focus was on a single character.

''Princess Maker'' is a series of videogames made by Creator/StudioGainax.

The games are mostly a mix of a RaisingSim and DatingSim, with some installments having some RPGElements thrown into them in various degrees. Each game begins with the player taking on the role of an adoptive parent for a young girl, with the task of raising her from childhood to adulthood.\\\
The player sets up a schedule that decides on what the daughter will do for the next week, be it getting an education, working a part-time job to earn some money, or resting to give her some time to relax from the former. Some games also give the option to venture out into areas that tend to include battle. The results of the schedule influence her parameters and reputation, with the final parameters leading to an ending that can be absolutely adorable or Nightmare incarnate.\\\
The series was rather obscure outside of Japan for a very long time, due to the series lacking an official English localization for a good twenty years. An attempt to release a PC version of ''Princess Maker 2'' succeeded in a completed release, but it was never officially sold because the publisher went out of business.\\\

* ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker1'' on PC-98 and MSX (1991), UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} (2017)
* ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker2'' on PC-9801 and DOS (1993), PC (1995), [=GP32=] (2002), and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} (2016)
* ''Princess Maker: Legend of Another World'' on UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem ([=SNES=]) (1995)
* ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker3'' on Playstation and PC (1997), UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} (2017), UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch (2019)

* ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker5'' on PC (2007), Playstation 2 and Playstation Portable (2008), UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} (2018)

In 2016, Korean publisher CFK Co. made a surprise release of ''Princess Maker 2 Refine'' on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in Japanese, Korean, and English, with the last having a new English script. Shortly after, the first and third game were localized in 2017, with the fifth and final game released in 2018. This led to the once-obscure franchise becoming more widely-known in the West, with four out of five titles released within two years.

* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Sabawon]], the super Sentai hero in a stage hero performance show, [[spoiler:is actually an assassin sent from the revolutionary force leader of the Demon World sector who serves as a {{Dragon}}]].

* BonusBoss: Two in the second game:
** The War God, who guards the actual stairway to the Heavens. He's much tougher than any opponent in the game, and defeating him lets the daughter ascend the stairway to gain a 100-point-increase in her patron deities' main parameter.
** The Skeletal Knight, who can be encountered while working the Gravekeeper job and having a decently high Fighting Reputation. Defeating him will net you a nice sum of gold.

* SpiritualSuccessor: There are several English and Korean games that are quite similar to the second and fifth games.

* TookALevelInBadass: If you put the daughter into activities that increase her stamina and strength (in both physical and magic) constantly, she's able to defeat some enemies.

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: In the fifth game, [[spoiler:the daughter’s words after Gateau ([[PowerUpgradingDeformation with his body healed and augmented]] by Heaven technology) was finally KilledOffForReal by her in Heaven Realm before she proceeds to the FinalBoss route,]] indirectly implies to this trope.

** Obtaining the Princess ending doesn't involve meeting or befriending the prince, at all. It's based solely on the daughter's Reputation, which has to be between 800 and 1199 points. Having a Reputation of [[UpToEleven 1200 points]] or higher will unlock the Ruling Queen ending.

The games are mostly RaisingSim and DatingSim merged together, with some of the installments having some RPGElements thrown into them in various degrees. Each game begins with the player taking on the role of an adoptive parent for a young girl, with the task being to raise her from childhood to adulthood.\\\

The series was rather obscure outside of Japan for a very long time, due to the series lacking official, English localization for a good twenty years. An attempt to release a PC version of ''Princess Maker 2'' succeeded in a completed release, but it was never officially sold because the publisher went out of business.\\\

!!! Games in the Series

* ''Princess Maker (For Kakao): Girl's Dream'' in [=iOS=] and Google Play (2012 in Korea, 2015 in Japan).

!! The ''Princess Maker'' series, or multiple entries of it, or the games that don't have pages, provide examples of

* AbusiveParents: The player can be this towards the daughter. Though the patron deities from the second game will always call the player out for raising their daughter in such a way.
* ActionGirl: The games tend to have some of these, usually in the form of physically-oriented or magically-oriented rivals for the daughter.

* AnimeChineseGirl: Tao Lianfan from the second game has this appearance, with her using a fan as her fighting weapon, and appearing as a dancer during the Harvest Festival.
* ArtificialStupidity: ''Princess Maker 2'' contained cheats that activated Demo Mode, in which the game attempts to play itself. Not only does it have a tendency to cancel whatever is selected, but it seems to select directions at random while out on Errantry, creating situations of moving back and forth along the same path or running into a sign.
* BadassAdorable: Should the daughter become adept at physical or magical fighting, she'll be able to destroy pretty much anything in her way, while wearing decidedly feminine clothing.
* BigDamnHeroes: The installments that feature combat will have the butler rush in rescue the daughter, if she ends up defeated by her enemy.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The English translations by CFK Co. for the first, third, and fifth game range from passable and understandable albeit stilted, to being downright appallingly bad, error-ridden messes. The fifth game is the biggest offender, making many basic syntax mistakes, and bugs causing [=NPCs=] to address the player as 'Mother' or 'Father' instead of their inputted name. The third game chose a font for its non-HD release that made it much more difficult to read.
* BonusBoss: Two in the second game.
** The War God, who guards the actual stairway to the Heavens. He's much tougher than any opponent in the game, and defeating him lets the daughter ascend the stairway to gain a 100-point-increase in the patron deities' main parameter. But he can be beaten relatively easily, if the right parameters are exploited.
** The Skeletal Knight, who can be encountered while working the Gravekeeper job and having a decently high Fighting Reputation. Defeating him will net a nice sum of gold.

* TheCameo: Maria and Olive, the daughters from the first and second game, and their rivals can appear as contestants in the third game's festivals. Since they are already grown adults, they tend to have parameters in the hundreds and are the toughest to outshine early on.
* CareerVersusMan

** Played straight in the fifth game, where she can only get a career-based ending or a marriage ending. Likely because it's set in [[invoked]] [[ValuesDissonance modern-day Japan]].
* CharacterNameLimits: In the ''Refine'' versions of the first two games, 8 characters is the limit for both places to input names, the family name and the daughter's name.

* TheChurch: An important element in the second game, including the daughter's involvement in it. Working for the Church cleanses her Sin and builds character, and the Archbishop will help a faithful daughter build social status. But there is a slice of {{corrupt|Church}}ion about the Church, too, as the daughter's Sin can be easily bought off through 'donations' with a fraction of the money she'd earn while working there.

* CosplayOtakuGirl: The fifth game contains an ending for the daughter to become a professional cosplayer. Being an otaku is also a parameter in that game, called Mania.
* CostumePorn: Most of the endings involve dressing the daughter up.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Your daughter can become a [[https://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=mashiah&logNo=220603406790&proxyReferer=https%3A%2F%2Fm.keep.naver.com%2F lady butler]] in the smartphone game, when you win against Cube in the fighting test against him.
* CrossoverCosmology: In the second game, [[{{God}} the Lord]] rules over the Greek gods of the planets, and some of them have been GenderFlipped, and [[{{Satan}} Lucifon]] is another one of his servants. There's also Valkyria and the War God, with the latter not having any relation to Mars.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The fifth game features a much darker main plot than the other games (even the first game), featuring a high death count that includes [[spoiler:the daughter's biological parents]] and very depraved villains.
* DealWithTheDevil

* DefeatMeansFriendship: The third game lets the daughter befriend her rival, if she manages to defeat the rival in one of the class' tests. While they will still compete in class, it's on a much friendlier note, and they will buy gifts for each other on their birthdays.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: It turns out the Big Bad who leads the revolutionary forces and is also responsible for summoning the assassins to kill all princess candidates and the daughter's biological parents is [[spoiler:Alfort. He is the butler who is the corrupt angel from the Heaven Realm of the daughter's world.]]

* FinalBossNewDimension: In the fifth game, your daughter takes a HighAltitudeBattle since [[spoiler:Alfort,]] the FinalBoss (and the BigBad) is located in [[spoiler:Heaven / Sky Realm]]. Before she encounters the final boss, she has to encounter some normal enemies [[spoiler:and Gateau]] in that realm.
* FoodPorn: The food shown in the restaurants and cooked is luscious.
* FriendlyGhost: If the daughter has a high sensitivity in the fifth game, she's able to encounter this (more than once) at the abandoned house at night. The ghost will give you an item and an extremely high boost at a random skill parameter.

* GlassCannon: The daughter having low Stamina, but high Strength/Magical Attack leaves her as this.
* GoldenEnding: Some games have what are considered Canon endings, which tend to be the best outcomes. Special mention goes to the True Heroine ending in the fourth game [[spoiler:with Patricia learning of her heritage, and bringing peace between the humans and the demons, including convincing the kingdom to remove the Sage Stones, which also allows Patricia's long-lost mother to freely return to the human realm herself]].

** Faith is required, with it being the other parameter that lets the daughter talk her way out of fights with enemies. It prevents her from drinking with Lucifon, and avoids events that lead to a high Sin count. It also helps her gain popularity with the Archbishop.
** Morality is required to do well in most of the higher-end, and therefore well-paying, jobs that don't involve having her all-but-whore-herself-out. It's also a parameter required for endings like the Ruling Queen or being a brave hero.

* IdolSinger: Your daughter can be this in the smartphone game. [[https://blog.naver.com/mashiah/220330758658 Here]]
* InevitableTournament

* LaserGuidedAmnesia
** In the third game, achieving a fairy-based ending will result in everyone that came into contact with the daughter forgetting about her because she goes on to live in a different realm. The rivals recall competing against someone, but can't remember who it was.
** The fifth game has Cube do this to the daughter, so that she won't remember [[spoiler:her parents were murdered, and those assassins are after her]]. The amnesia gets undone after she encounters [[spoiler:Gateau]].

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: In the smartphone game, it seems that you can raise '''lots of daughters''' after you raised one in the tutorial. [[https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/3466/ikNB1f.png Here’s the banner inside the game as evidence.]]

** In the second game, the daughter can agree to become the mistress of someone, if her Glamour is high and her Morality is low.

* MultipleEndings: Tons of them.
* MusicalAssassin: Gateau from the fifth game always gets rid of some targeted victims using his magic guitar on his back.
* MythologyGag: The fifth game contains clothes the daughter can wear that are based on the previous daughters' clothes (and ''Princess Maker 2'' video game item). The first three clothes mentioned below are {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Cube although he can’t remember them clearly.
** The Longing Clothes and Dreamy Clothes reference the second and third game, respectively.

** In the Prince marriage ending in the smartphone game, the daughter wears a wedding dress [[https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/7369/LrwOra.png based on the daughter’s wedding dress in the Prince marriage ending from third game.]]
* NamedAfterFirstInstallment: The series, which has the same name as the original title of the first game, focuses on raising a girl for eight years, from ages 10 to 18. The best game outcomes normally involve her becoming a queen.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elaborated with WhatTheHellHero Achieving a bad ending in the second game results in the patron deity chewing the player out.
* NintendoHard: Certain endings are incredibly difficult to obtain. The endings below are [[CuttingOffTheBranches true endings]]:

* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: The second game contains a hidden Maternal Instincts parameter for the daughter, with how high it is being considered into the final score the player gets. It's seen as bad if her Maternal Instinct is low, leading to a lowered score.
* OneManArmy: (See NintendoHard above) In any games. It’s possible for the daughter to win fights against monsters, even in the fifth game: revolutionary forces’ {{mooks}}, CoDragons, and even the BigBad '''alone'''.
* OneSizeFitsAll: From second to fifth game, your daughter can wear the same (type of) dress, regardless the growth change based on her age.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: In the fifth game, Emily loves seeing anything for scoops, one day she told your daughter that she saw Coach Takeda behaving weird as he sprayed paints to the wall and acting weird. The daughter tries to find out [[spoiler:and it turns out she’s right, he was possessed by Nappage, the assassin who was sent by Kenpi, the spirit who works as the revolutionary force’s [[CoDragons Co-Dragon.]]]]

* PersonalityBloodTypes: The player can choose what bloodtype the daughter will have, which will determine if certain parameters will get increased or decreased every month.

** The second game contains one, which is accessed through an actual stairway in the Northern mountainrange, guarded by the War God, and the daughter can meet her patron deity there for a one-time parameter boost.
** The fifth game also allows the daughter to have an adventure in Heaven Realm if she already owned an Angel Wing / Feather. It’s the last realm to be unlocked.

** The fourth realm in the daughter’s world from the fifth game. Allows the daughter to have an adventure in Demon Realm / Hell if she already owned an Demon Ring.
* PimpedOutDress: Many of the fancier dresses the player can have the daughter wear. And many endings also contain the daughter wearing one for her career or married life.
* [[PirateKing Pirate Queen]]: your daughter can be [[https://m.blog.naver.com/mashiah/220132707237 this]] in the smartphone game, and she also have a [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily shark teeth]] and a [[CheshireCatGrin weird smile]]
* PowerFist: The daughter in the fifth game can join Karate class for this. Even she can utilize this in a form of martial arts skills to fight enemies in adventure.

* PsychoLesbian: The second game has a female bandit called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodrose Vanesta]], who will [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer praise the daughter's beauty]] and attempt to rape her, if the daughter loses their duel.
* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: ''Princess Maker: Legend of Another World'' [=SNES=] spin-off (which Melody takes part in) is often forgotten by international fans, as you can see in few [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/37241414 all-gathered daughters]] [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/33717868 fanarts]] in Pixiv.
** Besides that, there’s a puzzle spin-off ''Princess Maker Pocket Daisakusen'' (プリンセスメーカーポケット大作戦） where the daughters from first three games takes part in along with Cube and Uzu.
** ''Princess Maker Q'', a quiz spin-off game starting a new girl character with the returning companion, Cube (in his animal form) is in the worse fate... (you can listen to this OST collection [[https://youtu.be/-_jmkKa2k3E here]]). Interestingly, some Koreans are trying to brought her back in a form of main ''Princess Maker'' fangame called [=KAREN=] in the Naver blog [[https://t.co/Nl4YryXtqz?amp=1 site]], where players able to raise the daughter girl from ''Q''.

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Zig-zagged in the second game, where going for a Social ending tends to give a significantly lower final score than other endings that require similar parameteres and reputations. The game considers the Housewife ending a bad one. On the other hand, some of the best endings require the daughter to have strong Social and Housekeeping reputations to back up her proficiency in Combat and Magic.
* RecurringBoss: [[spoiler:Gateau]] from the fifth game. After you defeated him in first encounter with him in any realms, he escaped everytime till [[spoiler:he’s finally KilledOffForReal in Heaven Realm, since it’s the last area in adventure mode]]. Everytime your daughter defeated him in any realms, a special item will be dropped from him that make her able to access the route to the [[spoiler:[[CoDragons certain rebel forces leader]] in each sector.]]
* RelationshipValues: A key part in obtaining certain endings. Particularly the marriage endings or the best friend endings in the fourth game.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: If the daughter becomes an actual queen or princess during the ending, she will get a crown to wear and, occasionally, an ermine cape.
* SaveScumming: Due to the random behavior of the daughter and the RNG-based nature of things like Errantry or parameter boosts, saving frequently and reloading, if necessary, are important.
* ScienceIsWrong: The second game considers rationalism to be incomplete, at best. Studying science increases the daughter's Intelligence, but it also lowers her Faith -- when in this world God rules over the stars, and the devil has raged war against the humans recently.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The second game can have the daughter accumulate as much Sin as possible, as long as she keeps lowering it by donating to the collection box in the church.

* SilkHidingSteel: The daughter can become this, if her fighting prowess is still adequate, while having a reputation as a good homemaker. Some of the higher endings in the second game require a good balance of all four reputations to achieve them.
* SpiritualSuccessor: There are several English and Korean games that are quite similar to the second and fifth game.

* SupremeChef: The daughter can become one if her Cooking and Housekeeper Reputation are high. It will also lead to her winning the cooking contest during some game's Harvest Festivals.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The first game has two contestants that [[FullFrontalAssault fight in the nude]]. As such, their defense parameter sucks, and they take heavy damage.
* ToHellAndBack: The daughter in the fifth game can access Hell / Demon Realm for Adventure if she owns a special item that unlocks the certain realm from her world.

* ''Princess Maker 5'' on PC (2007), Playstation and Playstation Portable (2008), UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} (2018)

* RealityEnsues: The first game has two contestants that [[FullFrontalAssault fight in the nude]]. As such, their defense parameter sucks, and they take heavy damage.

* TheJudge: [[https://m.blog.naver.com/mashiah/220043180606 One]] of the possible endings in the smartphone game. However, if faith is low, this would lead to a {{flanderiz|ation}}ed and [[https://m.blog.naver.com/mashiah/220134749118 corrupted version]] of the ending.

!! The ''Princess Maker'' series, or multiple entries of it provide examples of

* BarbieDollAnatomy: The second game showed this to be the case with the daughter.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance

* HandicappedBadass: The Combat teacher in the second game is blind, while the Fencing teacher of the same game has lost an eye.

* LighterAndSofter: The fourth game lacks the more raunchy aspects of the series, not really having any sultry outfits, lacking a prostitution ending, and the Royal Concubine ending showing her being pampered with gifts by the king, rather than being his bed-companion. This is due to Creator/NaotoTenhiro's distaste of sexualizing the women he draws.

* MightyLumberjack: The Lumberjack or Woodcutter part-time jobs the daughter can take will increase her Strength, making her strong enough to physically defeat enemies in one hit. But it tends to lower her Refinement.
* MisplacedVegetation: The second game's lake area is not at all tropical, but still has a rafflesia flower on a small isle.

The games are mostly RaisingSim and DatingSim merged together, with some of the installments having some RPGElements thrown into them in various degrees. Each game begins with the player taking on the role of an adoptive parent for a young girl, with the task being to raise her from childhood to adulthood.

The player sets up a schedule that decides on what the daughter will do for the next week, be it getting an education, working a part-time job to earn some money, or resting to give her some time to relax from the former. Some games also give the option to venture out into areas that tend to include battle. The results of the schedule influence her parameters and reputation, with the final parameters leading to an ending that can be absolutely adorable or Nightmare incarnate.

The series was rather obscure outside of Japan for a very long time, due to the series lacking official, English localization for a good twenty years. An attempt to release a PC version of ''Princess Maker 2'' succeeded in a completed release, but it was never officially sold because the publisher went out of business.\\

!! The ''Princess Maker'' series provides Examples of

* CharacterNameLimits: In the ''Refine'' versions of the first two games, 8 characters is limit for both places to input names, the family name and the daughter's name.

* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: The daughter grows up to be very pretty, leading to many male [=NPCs=] finding her attractive. If her Glamour is very high, men will come frequently ask for her hand in marriage, and she can agree to become someone's mistress, if her Morality happens to be low, too.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first game worked very differently in pretty much every category, when compared to the more well-known formula of the later games.

** Items bought in the store can be used to influence her parameters, with the Doll lowering her Stress and increasing her Morality, and the Dress item increasing her Glamour and lower her Stress. This feature disappeared from the second game, and items being merely bought from the store or being in the inventory increased the parameters.

* EdibleThemeNaming: In the fifth game, there are fairies named Tart and Torte, and a child-like astral spirit named Macaron. Also FluffyTheTerrible cases for some revolutionary forces’ assassins and CoDragons like Gateau (“Cake” in French), Nappage (“Topping” in French), Biscotti (“Cookies” in Italian), Waffle, Cornet, and Gelato.

* FinalBossNewDimension: In the fifth game, your daughter takes a HighAltitudeBattle since [[spoiler:Alfort,]] the FinalBoss (and the BigBad) is located in [[spoiler:Heaven / Sky Realm]]. Before she encounters the final boss, she has to encounter some normal enemies [[spoiler:and Gateau]] in that realm.
* FlatEarthAtheist: The alchemist of the second game believes in magic and miracles, but also believes that they can be explained through scientific principles. He happens to be wrong because Heaven, Hell, Morality, and Faith are tangible things in that game. Mechanically speaking, he is the worst teacher to use next to the General. His classes are cheap and raise the daughter's Intelligence, but her Faith decreases majorly when she's promoted to B level, which locks the player out of some events and encounters.

** Having a high Sensitivity parameters comes from this and helps faciliate it. It can even help the daughter avoid some fights while out on Errantry.

* FriendlyGhost: If the daughter has a high sensitivity in the fifth game, she's able to encounter this (more than once) at the abandoned house at night. The ghost will give you an item and an extremely high boost at a random skill parameter.
* FurBikini: The Rabbit Princess ending in the third game has the daughter wear one.

* {{Henshin Hero}}ine: ''[[https://m.blog.naver.com/mashiah/220411626267 The Super Creampuff Girl]]'' ending in the Kakao smartphone game. This can be triggered in a certain event chain when your daughter encounters a superhero named [[MeaningfulName Mr. Caffeine]] and he gives you a super cream puff that gives you the ability to transform into a superheroine.

* ImprobableAge: The second game allows the player to input their own age, meaning they can be a KidHero that defeated Lucifon at the tender age of 10, and then adopted a 10-year-old girl just one year later.

* [[GayOption Lesbian Option]]: The fourth game allows the daughter to gain endings that focus on having become incredibly close to one of the female friends she can make. However, it's worth noting that the game never flat-out refers to homosexuality, but just that the two end up being 'best friends'.
* LetsPlay: Of the second game [[https://lparchive.org/Princess-Maker-2/ by SynthOrange]], with the game being played based on [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong suggestions from the Something Awful forum]].

* LittleBitBeastly: The Rabbit and Cat Princes from the third game. Getting married to them will turn the daughter into a rabbit or cat, respectively.
* LighterAndSofter: The fourth game lacks the more raunchy aspects of the series, not really having any sultry outfits, lacking a prostitution ending, and the Royal Concubine ending showing her being pampered with gifts by the king, rather than being his bed-companion. This is due to [[LightNovel/SisterPrincess Naoto Tenhiro]]'s distaste of sexualizing the women he draws.
* LostInTranslation: The [=SoftEgg=] translation of the second game had Wendy going on about Ma-Gi-Ci-An Girls, which made no sense. The original and ''Refine'' script show that she makes a clear distinction between a MagicalGirl and a magician, which may be a pedantic different, but not pure nonsense.

* TheMistress

** There's even an outfit pased on Yucie's clothes from ''Anime/PetitePrincessYucie''.

* NintendoHard: Certain endings are incredibly difficult to obtain. The endings below are [[CuttingOffTheBranches true endings]].

* TheJudge: [[https://m.blog.naver.com/mashiah/220043180606 One]] of possible endings in the smartphone game. However if the faith is low, this would lead to a {{flanderiz|ation}}ed and [[https://m.blog.naver.com/mashiah/220134749118 corrupted version]] of judge ending.

** In the third game, achieving a fairy-based ending will result in everyone that came into contact with the daughter to forget about her because she goes on to live in a different realm. The rivals recall competing against someone, but can't remember who it was.

* CoolPet: In the third game. It’s possible to pet a dangerous animal that the daughter has rescued, even non-animals like a robot and a literal alien.

* TheBusCameBack: Cube the demon butler, and a few characters from Princess Maker 2 such as Lucifon (The Devil King), the Dragon Youth and the Dragon Elder reappear in ''Princess Maker (for Kakao): Girls’ Dream''. You can marry the Dragon Youth, and it’s possible to have [[MayDecemberRomance your daughter married to the Dragon Elder]].

CoolPet: In the third game. It’s possible to pet a dangerous animal that the daughter has rescued, even non-animals like a robot and a literal alien.

* TheBusCameBack: Cube, the demon butler who is loved by many ''Princess Maker'' fans, and few characters from Princess Maker 2 such as Lucifon (The Devil King), Dragon Youth and Dragon Elder reappeared in ''Princess Maker (for Kakao): Girls’ Dream'' [[AllegedlyFreeGame smartphone game]]. You can marry the Dragon Youth, and it’s possible to have [[MayDecemberRomance your daughter married to the Dragon Elder]].

** The fifth game, taking placing in modern-day Japan, means the daughter can marry or have a career. Not both.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: It turns out the Big Bad who leads the revolutionary forces and is also responsible for summoning the assassins to kill all princess candidates and the daughter's biological parents is [[spoiler:Alfort. He is the butler who is the corrupt angel from Heaven Realm of the daughter's world.]]

** Most of the games take place in a European-based fantasy setting without a serious gender bar, and that means the daughter can have a career and get married. The fifth game, taking placing in modern-day Japan, means she can marry or have a career. Not both.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: It turns out the Big Bad who leads the revolutionary forces and is also responsible for summoning the assassins to kill all princess candidates and the daughter's biological parents is Alfort. He is the butler who is the corrupt angel from Heaven Realm of the daughter's world.

* FoodPorn: The food shown in the restaurants and cooked are luscious.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Having a high Sensitivity parameters comes from this and helps faciliate it. It can even help the daughter avoid some fights while out on Errantry.