What Love Nikki is
Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is Papergames' dress-up game, published globally by Elex since April 2017. These pages cover the 37 Journey chapters live on the global server across three volumes, 415 scored stages on Maiden and Princess, and the 17 themes of the Stylist's Arena.
What to do first
Buy dresses before anything else. The dress is the largest single score in an outfit, and a tag bonus counts double on a dress but only a fifth on a coat or an accessory. In our Chapter 1 shopping list, Nikki's Dress supplies 37,729 of the 59,848 points the whole outfit scores on stage 1-5.
Spend Gold on the early Journey and keep your Diamonds. That same list is 28 Gold-store pieces for 57,013 Gold, and it takes all nine Princess stages of Chapter 1 at least 15% past their S lines.
Fill every accessory slot. The game cuts the accessory total as you wear more, down to 40% at sixteen pieces or more, and a full set still wins: on the Arena theme Golden Odeum, 23 no-Diamond accessories add 21,594 points where the best three add 7,795.
Go for the S. A Princess stage drops its item 15% of the time on a C grade and 30% on an S, and some pieces drop only on an S.
Read a stage before you shop for it. Stage 4-12 asks for Bunny Girl clothes, and its tag bonus is worth 70,000 points on a dress against a pass line of 77,500. Clothes without the tag score almost nothing there, so the Gold store cannot pass it at all. The dress you need is crafted.
Where to start
Open Story Stages, then your chapter and stage: three outfits, each with its grade, with the stage's weights, score lines, drops and top items per slot folded underneath and the chapter's Gold-store shopping list after its stages. The Stylist's Arena does the same for its 17 themes, and Custom Stage scores any weights you type in, for event stages the site doesn't list.
Story Stages →Stylist's Arena →My Wardrobe →Custom Stage →