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A branching horror visual novel casts you as an executioner whose choices reshape a captive princess and the looping story.
Released 23 Oct 2023
Shape the Princess
Question the Narrator
Debate Inner Voices
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Developed by Black Tabby Games · Published by Black Tabby Games, Serenity Forge
You wake on a forest path with a mission: reach a cabin and kill the princess imprisoned in its basement to prevent the end of the world. The story unfolds as a choice-driven visual novel, with dialogue and actions determining how you approach her.
Your decisions influence the princess’s behavior and appearance, as well as the events around you. A narrator urges you onward while voices in your head react to your choices, creating tension between following instructions, questioning them, and deciding what you believe.
The story loops back to the path and branches into different encounters and outcomes, giving you new routes to explore across playthroughs. The Pristine Cut adds three chapters, expands several existing routes, includes a new ending, and provides a gallery for tracking discoveries.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often praise how choices lead to distinct routes and encourage replay, along with the writing’s emotional and philosophical themes, hand-drawn art, and voice acting. Some find the prose confusing or abstract, and repeated routes can feel tiring; a few reviewers also felt the gameplay was limited or the endings unsatisfying.
You're on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess.
You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.
She will do everything in her power to stop you. She'll charm, and she'll lie, and she'll promise you the world, and if you let her, she'll kill you a dozen times over. You can't let that happen. Don't forget, the fate of the world rests on your shoulders.
You're not going to listen to him, are you? We're supposed to save princesses, not slay them...
Features
Fully voice-acted by the impeccable Jonathan Sims and Nichole Goodnight.
Hand-penciled art - every background and sprite is drawn traditionally with pencil and paper by Ignatz-winning graphic novelist Abby Howard.
A princess. She's very bad and you have to get rid of her for all our sakes.
No, the Princess isn't a “cosmic horror,” whatever that is supposed to mean. She's just an ordinary human Princess, and you can definitely slay her as long as you put your mind to it.
Don't even think about trying to romance her. It won't end well for you.
Hopefully you won't die. But if you do, you'll die a lot. Be careful and stay focused on the task at hand!
A branching narrative where what you say and what you believe determines both who you are and how the story unfolds. Though I wouldn’t recommend taking any paths outside of the one I lay before you.
A new roleplaying experience from the creators of Scarlet Hollow.
Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel/dating sim with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art.
What’s in the Pristine Cut?
3 brand new chapters replete with mysteries—and consequences.
Expansions to familiar routes. The Den, The Apotheosis and The Fury each have each more than doubled in length.
Over 35% more content overall—and all of it filled with great opportunities to listen to me and do your job.
A new ending. And hopefully one that saves the world rather than damns it.
Track Your Progress: Cherish your memories, relive your exploits, and uncover deeply hidden secrets with the new gallery feature.
Over 1,200 New Hand-Penciled Frames hand-illustrated by Abby Howard.
Over 2,500 New Lines of Dialogue fully voiced dialogue by the impeccable Jonathan Sims and Nichole Goodnight.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 131 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 90/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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