The Bell Chimes for Gold

The Bell Chimes for Gold is a casual dungeon crawler/Visual Novel hybrid. You play as former alchemy student Maria, who was dumped and fired by her master. While they put off their marriage due to money problems, the master started a relationship with Marias coworker and finally decided to marry her instead. Heartbroken Maria decides to heed her former masters final advice and opens her own alchemy story, making her ultimate goal to earn so much money she can buy herself a new hubby! First of all please keep in mind this is an all-ages-Version of the game. There exists an 18+ version, but you can't get in on steam. There is no patch or paid DLC available. But unlike many other games, the h-content wasn't just cut out, the scenes play out differently and were even redone. This is actually nice for a change, even though the all-ages-version is still shorter then the original game. As for the gameplay, you`ll mostly cklick with your mouse through the dialoges, until you reach the dungeon crawler parts. It's very easy and casual. You hire one of the 5 bachelors as your bodyguard. Everyone of the five has their own strengthes and special skills that make them a better fit for some of…

I don't recommend this game for any "bad reason". It wasn't something that I really enjoyed. If you're looking for something cute that won't tie you in emotionally, this is for you! It's also super short. However, I enjoy otomes that make me fall in love with the characters, and this one wasn't it.

even if i like the game a lot I would highly reccomend to get the full +18 version since the interactions end up feeling kinda empty without the context of the special scenes the ends feel out of the blue so a patch that includes all these scenes woulde be great, william and walter are by far the best routes in my opinion, collecting the $ seems hard at first but tbh I just ended up doing the same dungeon with brian and boost his skills using the dark alley services, after than u can pretty much get into the 100 step boss with almost no trouble. <3

DAMN, these old men can THROW HANDS!!!

A fun little time sink! Goofy but also heartfelt.

A cute, fun, and short otome game! Totally worth the price imo, if the love interests appeal to you. I really enjoyed Maria as a protagonist, and the RPG section was fun and added some variety to the game. I really enjoyed it! There's a sequel called Marialbum, and I enjoyed this enough I will probably check that out as well. Recommended for those who want an otome game that offers something different.