Posted on: October 28, 2024
Evaneself
Games: 459 Reviews: 54
I,... I can't help myself.
I,... I find her very tempting and sexy.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Description
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
- 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. 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!
- Time loops No time loops. Don't be ridiculous. Time is a strictly linear concept and it certainly doesn't "loop," whatever that's supposed to mean.
- A branching narrative where what you say and what you believe determines both your build and how the story unfolds.
- A new roleplaying experience from the creators of Scarlet Hollow.
- Fully voice-acted by the impeccable Jonathan Sims and Nichole Goodnight.
Popular achievements
Our Song
Finish the Game. (The Good Ending doesn't count)
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37.84%
Romantic Haze
Your love will set you free.
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31.7%
The Real Slay the Princess Starts Here
You'll know it when you see it.
common
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51.73%
The Illusion of Choice
When everything is possible, nothing is.
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30.53%
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Slay the Princess is a horror game, and it is not intended for children or those easily disturbed. Please visit our website if you need a full list of content warnings.
Recommended system requirements:
Slay the Princess is a horror game, and it is not intended for children or those easily disturbed. Please visit our website if you need a full list of content warnings.
Time to beat
3 hMain
5.5 h Main + Sides
17 h Completionist
5 h All Styles
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GamingTrend
95/100
Slay the Princess is a beautiful narrative of pain, death, love, and transformation. It has so many choices and routes that it's impossible to see them all in one playthrough. While some may come for the terrors of blood, bone, and the unknown, the tender core is what will keep the game in your mind.
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9/10
Slay the Princess is a horror meta-narrative visual novel about the choices we make, and how they change us and those around us. It’s about the interpersonal relationships that can wound us, make us versions of ourselves we never imagined, yet teach us. It is a damn good story, and one worth experiencing.
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4/5 stars
Slay the Princess is a fantastic, fascinating journey, and anyone looking for a game that keeps them on their toes, explores the dark side of heroism, and throws up some more cerebral scares (so, anyone who liked Alan Wake 2) needs to check this one out.
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Posted on: April 30, 2025
Sweliz
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 2
Bit of a let down
For me, it started off pretty good. But then, it established that items stay until you move on or do something with them. You can look at them many a times. But then, over an hour in. It changed this to "You can ONLY look at it ONCE" for one specific item, without any sufficient cause. And, punishing exploration is kinda bad form imo. Especially as it apparently locked me out of the path I was currently exploring.
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Posted on: September 17, 2024
ev459
Verified ownerGames: 24 Reviews: 2
Great game!!
Engaging story and amazing artstyle
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Posted on: November 1, 2024
CrisUsername
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
11/9
w good game i really enjoyed it
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Posted on: August 17, 2025
Kajros
Games: 240 Reviews: 1
Overhyped, misleading and confusing.
The game is set in the woods with a cabin and a… small dungeon. These 3 places are all you get with some minor variations in design. This is mainly looping and to progress to another loop, you have two main choices: slay or “save” Princess (yeah very original name). You might think that this choice matters and while you get a different chapter of the loop depending on the choice, in the end, it does not matter what you do. The ending sequence is just about shouting pointless arguments (“explain yourself” type of a shouting match) at each other, while you get to the same final choice: slay or save, the endings are pretty much the same but with small changes. The story is confusing and not explained at all. You cannot even get an explanation because, apparently, the author doesn’t know it either. How the hell does that work? Basically, you get nothing out of this. No point, no satisfaction, nothing. The choices themselves are not making sense either. I’ll describe one situation: You go down to find Princess chained. You have a choice, slay her outright or talk to her first. If you choose the former, she uh… dies, but if you say even one damn thing to her and then decide to slay her, then at best, she kills you as well. How does that make sense? No idea. Apparently because you hesitated, somehow. The art style is simplistic and nice, but in some places not even finished. You can see the draft lines in scenes, mainly on the two characters this thing has. The NPCs, or Voices are annoying, always breaking the pace of the “story”, they control your actions sometimes with no explanation, they sometimes contradict their behavior. The game has two voice actors. They’re decent but after few loops you’ll get tired of them. I had to turn them off in the options. Next thing you know, you wasted money (unless you got it below a fiver) on a game because it took you too long while trying to make sense of it. I played it god knows how many times to understand it, but I got nothing.
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