# The Eagle's Heir

Summer DB entity ID: ba12a1e4\-a40a\-4f40\-aa4f\-87e8db1a3f1d

Steam App ID: 609760

Defend Napoleon's heir in this steampunk alternate history game of political maneuvering, airship adventure, and romantic intrigue\! Will you bring liberty to France, or plunge Europe into bloody war?   The Eagle's Heir  is a 200,000 word interactive novel by Amy Griswold and Jo Graham\. It's entirely text\-based, without graphics, or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.  Since Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, seventeen years ago, Europe has enjoyed an uneasy peace\. While the great empires of Austria, Russia and England have tried to stem the tide of revolution, France has mastered steam power to conquer the air and sea\. Now, Napoleon’s health is failing, and France is torn between his legitimate heir, Franz, and his illegitimate son Alexandre\.  Luckily, Alexandre has you, his loyal bodyguard and childhood companion, skilled in the arts of the duel and the ballroom, and ready for anything from diplomacy to airship combat\!  It's brother against brother as you choose who will rule France, and how\. Will France have a king, an emperor, or become a republic? Can you guide your lifelong friend Alexandre to the throne, and keep not just your prince but his revolutionary ideals alive? Or will you throw your weight behind his half\-brother Franz? Will you defeat France’s enemies with the thunder of airship guns or forge a marriage alliance in gaslit ballrooms?     Play as male, female, genderfluid, or non\-binary; gay, straight, or asexual    Race airships across the English Channel    Find romance with a journalist or a lady's maid, or ménage a trois at the Tuileries Palace    Join a motley crew of actors in the revolutionary cause, or spy on them for your allies    Duel aristocrats to preserve your and Alexandre's honor    Plan a scandalous elopement which sends Europe into an uproar    When swords cross before the throne, who will be the Eagle's Heir?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Mar 30, 2017

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/609760/ss\_aa6ef926a32d2d8505dad1a7c1bdf6e1af3e9e8b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734113861, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/609760/ss\_26a52cd30d2a693baa880e4b8873ca1a716c15e0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734113861, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/609760/ss\_cbf2f6cff6336bea0ca053bed767a1bf873aa20f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734113861, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/609760/ss\_ab1533e04d4adc9f14d597be52c32193378817ae\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734113861, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/609760/ss\_9256c35cae8c6022ca27b5d317238ea395bc40f3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734113861, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/609760/ss\_8d8a696e6202e6f90b95f62e485db2add961a98e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734113861

- Price: 599 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 34

- Steam positive reviews: 29

- Steam negative reviews: 5

- Steam positive percentage: 85.29411764705883%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T20:32:28\.870442\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T20:32:30\.552346\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T20:32:29\.911436\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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