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Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator
Developer Studio Namaapa
Daughter Raising Simulator with in-depth management gameplay, backed by an outstanding City Pop soundtrack. Take a young girl under your wing and raise her to adulthood. Set in a future where humanity has fled earth, your choices for your daughter will determine the outcome for humanity. From the Steam store page
73 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
48 positive · 23 negative
95% range 56–77%
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| Steam reviews | 48 | 23 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
97 of 137 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 73 · most liked firstReview by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. Is this game a masterpiece? It is a daughter-raising simulator, and it certainly is FAR cheaper than raising a daughter in real life. So I guess the price-performance ratio is rather good, if you ever wanted to raise a daughter. As so often in real life, you suddenly get a daughter, in this case an already 8 year old daughter, so you can at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game for people who liked Princess Maker 2 or any other life-simulation games! The devs are responsive to feedback and questions as well. Just as a warning: it is EXTREMELY anime. NOT anime as in Princess Maker 2's "would you like to date your underage daughter and maybe give her some breast expansion pills ho ho ho????" but very anime as in "we live on a flying city one thousand years in the future in our eternal war against the Kaiju aliens who threaten to destroy us and yet somehow…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All right, finished the game on one runthrough, don't think I'll have the patience to do another. There's some feedback I have, since it looks like Studio Naampa is working on a sequel: -First off, the schedule, which has a whole bunch of issues. Detailed information on each activity should be provided somewhere for the player, because a lot more planning is required in this game due to the chapter stat caps and labyrinthine unlock requirements for a whole plethora of activities. I want to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game. I've been searching for a Raising Sim ala Princess Maker for years, but none of the games I tried had quite the same charm and fun. The game is very reminiscent of the PM games while still being original and bringing new ideas to the table. The translation is also so, so much better than the official release of the PM games. The gameplay is actually more difficult, although I see that as a plus; in PM it was so easy to raise a god-like daughter that you would have to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Daughter Raising Simulator With Good Potential!" + Point: We may be projecting our dreams to our daughters...(*´ω｀*) Intro Ciel Fledge. It is a simulation game made by Studio Namaapa and published by PQube. It's been a while since the news of the project was announced, but the game was released on Steam eventually. If you are interested in getting more detailed update information for this game, you can find them on the developer blog or the kickstarter page. Game Experience At first this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR at the bottom. I'm writing this review a little earlier than a normally would; usually I take a retrospective look the games I play, but it will be awhile before I can do that here and I want to give Ciel Fledge its best chance at making the front page of Steam. Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator is Studio Namaapa's second project, and is a life sim/management in the same genre as the Princess Maker series of games. Your job is to raise Ciel, an eight-year-old girl with no memory,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great idea, but flawed execution. The mini games need their timers doubled at the very least. Your special attack is suppose to freeze timers but never does. Your shuffle attack is supposed to give you new cards but you will always have between 1-5 seconds left when you finally get it doesn't matter and cannot make any difference, enjoy the defeat screen. The forward and backward keys keep changing. You are constantly swapping between different sets of okay, cancel, left & right that you'll…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Humanity is forced to live in the sky on “Arks”, as alien forces invade the Earth’s land. You, the player, are an adult willing to adopt a mysterious young girl who managed to survive an attack on another Ark than your own. Her name is Ciel. A bunch of weird sh*t starts happening and you won’t find out what the hell is going on until the end of the game. Information • Gauges to maintain: Stamina, Discipline, Mood, and Stress. • Stats to increase: Strength, Intelligence, Charm,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. It seemed right up my alley for time management and stat management. However, this game is all over the place. Here are the areas that didn't work for me: 1) The narrative tried to jam a whole bunch of things together where the sum was less than its parts. The reveal of Eli just left me going, "...but why?" 2) The narrative and the game play had zero relationship. You could have literally done nothing but sleep the entire game and I don't see how that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh boy. I was rooting for this game even tried the demo some time ago but the result was just "meh" like really just that. EVERYTHING is slow like for real it took me ten hours to finish one playthrough and by the end I was just skipping everything and told myself "get me to the end already". The characters are so boring that I found myself skipping every dialog that was not part of the main story. But the main problem here for me is how lifeless I found this world. That just it lifeless.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't deny I spent a lot of time here and enjoyed the game quite a lot. Initially. Unfortunately quite a lot of that enjoyment was the anticipation of various possibilities awaiting. I'll spoil it for you: this game has pretty much no replayability whatsoever. You can reach all that matters in one run and already in that run you will experience how ridiculously tedious the activities get. Add to that a mediocre ui, horribly inefficient game engine and the worst control system since Gothic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →video review in 5 minutes or less: https://youtu.be/zS68fvlQ8xc wall of text if you rather read: "Ciel Fledge a daughter raising simulator" is a simulation based visual novel, similar to such works as Chinese Parents and Princess Maker. I was given the key for free by the developers and am a little late getting the review out, because even when rushing through the game, a single playthrough is about 21 hours long. I'm not kidding. Pros: - interesting set up and plot. You're a citizen of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having now beaten the game a singular time in around 40 hours, I enjoyed it. I have a few qualms about it -You, the parent figure being, are basically nothing in regards to the story -Combat is super easy. At no point was I in any fear of dying. -You can't see requirements for new jobs ahead of time. During phase 1, child, you can't see any requirements for phase 2, teenager. Usually not a problem... until phase 3, adult, where to be a top soldier you need medical expertise, which is way…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish Steam had a 'neutral' option here, because I feel really neutral on this game, but I'm ultimately going to not recommend it. I think this game has a lot of promise, but it's not executed very well. The game can't decide if it wants to go the route of Princess Maker or be more like a VN. It's like a real hybrid of the two, but they don't mix well together. First off, this game is long, but I feel it's due to the grinding. Princess Maker 5 had this problem too, cept it was only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the idea here. The music and art are cool too. And there seems to be hints of an interesting story, and world. But it's all rolled out to you way too slow. It almost felt like grinding, trying to get to the next bit of story. I didn't complete a playthrough before I felt it got too tedious.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow our curator for similar games https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752-3-point-play/ Daughter raising sim + Crouching tiger mom and hidden hawk mom + weekly schedule = This sim is pretty in depth with a lot of options and variables to consider. Cute scenes and dialogues. No micromgmt.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I understand this is an indie game, it is not without its flaws. I'll start with the positives: -Addictive gameplay: Another reviewer wrote about this and I would reiterate that it's very easy to get stuck in a loop of just doing one more week. A week can take as little as like 30 seconds, so you won't feel as guilty for the 'one more time' mentality as in some other games. -You get your moneys worth. I spent 27 hours with this game and only spent £9. Onto the negatives: -While it's easy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have you ever played princess maker and wanted a longer, more fleshed out version of it, maybe with more story and cutscenes? Then this is the game for you. Absolutely love it and really wish it was more widely known than it is, because it's an absolute jewel of a game. Cute animation, and fun game mechanics. Only thing I didn't like too much is there was a lot of lag during the fight sequences, other than that it's a fantastic game with tons of replay value.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely love this game and have been following the project for a good while. If you like Princess Maker, you'll like this. It's like PM but not creepy and actually written well. The story is good too. Highly recommend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately, I couldn't get this game to work. The game will not support any mouse input. Spoke with devs, but they were unable to replicate the error. I hope it will be fixed in the future, because I would really like to play this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →on Windows 11, the black screen (before the opening movie) will cause the OS to lock up
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →writing and worldbuilding is decent but the gameplay itself is slow and painfully boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I might have been going into this looking for something else - I wanted more simulation, more choices, and a quicker pace.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a stat-crunching game that is reminiscent of Princess Maker 2, however, I wasn't impressed with the first hour of play. The writing was not good. The tutorials felt like a chore, and there weren't very many interesting parenting decisions.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator is more or less a visual novel/E-book, although it's punctuated by mindless minigames and lightweight RPG stats that really don't make much difference, if any, to the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure outcomes in this badly written book. There's enough elements of gameplay I suppose you could call this a game, but that's hardly deserved, because the focus here is on, you guessed it, reading really badly written text. So, there's an overwhelming amount of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not the best child raising game, I'd still put the princess maker series ahead of this (at least if you started on a good translation and know how they work). But a decent enough take, lots of options and directions for you to go and with a few halfway decent twists. It does have a few problems thought. Not the most exciting visually (although I thought it had a cute enough style), takes a little long to get started and also feels a little too drawn out in general. Also has a nasty habit of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute and charming little PM clone. Gameplay: Similar to the PM games. You fill her schedule up and she performs whatever you have her do. Then she gains skills that help out during her explorations and influence what ending you get. You can also have her work to earn money, you don't get a stipend so it is strongly suggested that you do this. You can also befriend everyone you meet to an extent but your schedule allows you to talk to a specific person on the weekend to raise your friendship…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stats are pointless combat meaningless. It doesn't matter if you go into cooking or biology. This should have been a mediocre visual novel. except the characters range from annoying and boring to just exceptionally boring or annoying, Also, the plot is AMAZINGLY dependent on every living thing being to stupid to focus on anything except breathing and eating. I'm honestly shocked they apparently walk and breath at the same time. This 100% includes your daughter BTW. You will always be amazed at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommend game. It hooked me for some time. The story is great, and some of it are based on popular sci-fi works. Game consists of few elements: a Visual Nover, an RPG and a management. Most of the things in game are quite logical. It is quite emotional. I was able to grow lidl Youmu :) As a con it may be a bit artificially slowed down to extend playtime, but with enough grind and a little help from Community Hub Forum I was able to complete it in 2 days. Would be nice if this game had some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a game with many issues, but It's still great. The story of Ciel takes place in a distant future. A girl is found, she doesn't remember anything. But she obviously needs a parent, she is young. And so the officials place her into your custody. Your job is to take care of her for next 10 years. One full on playthrough takes roughly 25 hours. You manage the weekly schedule of stuff to do. There's actually many activities to choose from. And also many career choices. Which is perfect. It's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this game is a lot better than I thought. Some good perspective 1. it is burden less. There isn't too much complicated events triggering, plenty time to play casually without pursuit. 2. plenty option to manage things 3. I really like the green color theme and character design Problem for the game is mostly in the combat mechanism. 1. it is confusing by having too many useless visuals. 2. it is supppppeeerr laggy. I have no idea how did the dev managed to make a simply candy crush…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is very fun game. Done in the style of a daughter raising sim... well, let's be real, it's impossible to mention the genre without saying "Princess Maker", so let's just get it out of the way: Yes, this is like a Princess Maker game. (Though a lot, LOT less creepy than that series) As you progress through the game, raising 10-year-old Ciel (a survivor of a destroyed floating city) for 10 years, you'll influence her path in life. Depending on how you guide her, she could try her hand at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a good game for killing time with a good amount of features. Pros: you get a gameplay experience that isnt short and with lots to do You get a daughter Cons: long gameplay makes the game almost tedious at times The father (player) seems more arbitrary and would be better if there were father and daughter minigames.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isn't not bad for what it is, and there are some really good parts in there, however it does have several shortcomings that prevent it from truly shining. Most prominently, it fails to fully take advantage of the post apocalyptic future setting. Things that you would expect from a modern princess maker game, such as electronics, computers, public schools, or clubs, are noticeably absent. Also absent is any form of romance, or really romantic prospects in general, given that there are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Me: *sees title* "I'm gonna pretend that your game (sub)title is 'Princess Maker.' No need for your selling points, straight to my library!" ...Another random encounter from browsing Steam store. This one is a... what?! I thought these kind of games have died long ago! I love Princess Maker games, and I really wished that the series hadn't gone dead! I can't believe it's not a daughter raising simulator...! Thanks for the recommendation, Steam. And who made this game...? Namaapa? That's an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →cute, and fun so far. :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator approaches the life simulation genre from an uncommon direction, placing the responsibilities of parenthood inside a distant science-fiction future. Developed by Studio Namaapa and published by PQube, the game puts you in charge of raising an adopted girl named Ciel from childhood until adulthood. Rather than controlling every aspect of her life directly, you shape her future through schedules, education, hobbies, friendships, employment, equipment, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat with mouse and keyboard often had a hard time responding unless you went away and back to an object. Shortcuts often didn't work since that also activated stuff they shouldn't. And a couple of other issues. Other than that an unskippable and slow ending sequence and credits is always a frustration. The mechanics was quite decent but there was too little incentive to explore the surface and while it is nice to be able to plan too much knowledge of what you can unlock takes away a lot of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finished my third and final playthrough of #CielFledge! This time, I did better than my first playthrough, scoring a Rank C with 3,154 evaluation points! Sadly, I ended up making my third Ciel, a singer named Chesley Odell, faint a few times whilst exploring the Surface…
unlabelledView post →#CielFledge is the last #videogame I played in 2024! It is a heartwarming coming-of-age simulator with flexible skill-building, intense mini-games and a beautiful soundtrack! I enjoyed my first playthrough, achieving the Soldier route. Thank you, Studio Namaapa, for this wonderful game!
unlabelledView post →Looks like a newgrounds game to me very 2016 or 2018ish
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For awhile playing this game was fun and I was making good progress until I ran into a problem. All of a sudden my stamina gains were next to nothing and I could only send her to two classes or jobs a week max. Snacks are expensive and when trying to save up for items it's not very efficient to keep spending my money on them. I have so many stats and items that reduce stamina reduction yet I'm only earning about 5 max per rest. This isn't even the only problem with the game either.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay may be a bit boring, but overall the game is still enjoyable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuinely a bad game. Halfway through the story you're still getting tutorials. Much of the writing is shockingly poor. Much of the grammar is laughably bad. The 'combat' mechanics are less than rudimentary. Many points in the story feel like grooming.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this. It seems right up my alley, and the ideas on display in terms of a raising sim are really great. But man, it's so bloated with mechanics. Battle mechanics and turn-based combat aren't unheard of in raising sims, but they feel like relics even in the classic games within the genre. Here, in a modern title, it more just feels like an unnecessary inclusion, like it's getting in the way of the more fun and interesting aspects of the raising part of the game. The game is also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a really good game, so far the story has been captivating and the different game mechanics for difference scenarios has made for a enjoyable gaming experience. One thing that I find most intriguing about the game is how it can make you literally care about a fictional character in the same way as one would their own daughter. As someone who played the demos long before the original release of the game, the game still holds its value and capacity to tell a good story even after where the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the characters and the world in this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I've never thought to myself "I wish I could make a small warrior daughter", never had the idea. However, being presented with the idea and then playing said idea was great. You did good, well done. 7/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To put it simply, this is a game inspired by the Princess Maker series and expands on it ever so slightly. It opens with a character creator, where you make a backstory for your father and set up boosts and growth rates for your daughter.... before you know anything about what any of the stats do or how the game works (EX: There is a choice that determines bonuses for exploring the surface... a mecanic introduced aroud 6-10 hours in and explained even later, I was lucky and picked the bonus…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a huge game. Every year of playing this game takes over an hour. I played for 12 hours and my kid is only 15. The game is pretty good. It has a good storyline that last throughout the game. I think what would have made the game better is extra scenes depending on your character or stats. Let there be a reason I would want to improve my charisma or music. The only stat I see increasing is strength so I can win battles.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So let me start with saying I never played any of these kind of games, like the usual mentions that come to mind is Princess Maker, so I don't know what to expect whatsoever. But in my 3 hours of playtime, I managed to get to the end of year 1 so I feel like making a review because from those hours alone I had fun, and it's not even nearing any of the ending which the CG gallery said there's like a lot of it. Basically in this game you raise a daughter, make her learn skills/do jobs, etc.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I waited for a long time for a Princess Maker type game as there weren't many in the genre and Ciel Fledge really helped satiate that appetite and gave it a modern twist, and I can already see it even though I just started playing. I really recommend this game for all those who want raising sims!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is pretty neat. The story is nice, the characters are nice, and its got that charm that makes it endearing. But... it's just slightly below that mark of a game being 'great' in my opinion. I liked what I have here, but it could have used a bit more polishing. That said, give it a shot. You might like it. I certainly did.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sci-Fi Daughter (was) a new concept for a raising simulator! I like making numbers go up so I've enjoyed my time with this game; but it is far too long for its genre. The career paths and skills are a mess, it's difficult to engage with the exploration portion of the game since it does not pay off as well as going to classes does. I like reading and don't mind what we're working with here, though I can't help but think removing the majority of the plot and focusing more on the style of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've really enjoyed this game and disagree with some of the reviews complaining about the skill trees or schedules not being fleshed out. All of the information about skill trees and schedules are clearly present if you are able to click around your screen a bit and read lol! The tutorials are pretty explanatory and the learning curve isn't bad at all. I really enjoy this game and it's a great extension of traditional princess makers by taking place for ten in game years. It's definitely a time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a miss for me. I love games with systems, customization, and things to manage, but this one felt overwhelming instead of engaging. There was so much happening at once that I never felt like it was worth taking the time to figure everything out. It had an interesting idea, but the complexity didn't translate into a rewarding experience for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are tons of stuff I wanted to like in this game. But it feels incomplete (why are the topics of discussion so limited ? why is the fashion so limited ? And so on), the exploration is meaningless and the UI is clunky. This review makes me sad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the best "raising sim" existing (even if "I was a teenage Exocolonist" is far better, but not exactly a raising sim).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game with a nice story and an interesting cast of characters for all that like raising sims and stat-raiser. My only complaint is the length of a playthrough, with my first having been around 20 hours.
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