The horror visual novel Slay the Princess is getting a free update to commemorate 200,000 copies sold. Developer Black Tabby Games says it’s adding over 3,000 words of new and tweaked endgame dialogue choices, new animations, and new Czech National Symphony Orchestra versions of certain songs.
For folks waiting on a sale, the studio added that Slay the Princess will go 20 percent off as part of the Steam Midweek Madness sale. You can buy it as part of a bundle with Inscryption and What Remains of Edith Finch to get an additional 10 percent off each game.
Slay the Princess celebrates more than 200,000 copies sold with a free content update to the original game, and a 20% discount on Steam as part of the Steam Midweek Madness sale. Alternatively, pick up Slay the Princess, Inscryption, and What Remains of Edith Finch at an additional 10% off per game with the Cabins in the Woods bundle.
Experience expanded endgame content with more than 3,000 words of additional and restructured dialogue choices, newly-produced animations, and live orchestral renditions of some climactic tracks from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
Slay the Princess Synopsis
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.
Slay the Princess is a fully-voiced, cheeky horror tragicomedy. In this fully-voiced roleplaying game, the player is tasked by a mysterious voice to kill a princess who has been imprisoned in a cabin hidden deep in the woods. If the player doesn’t fulfill their task, the voice alleges, the princess will bring about the end of the world. But can the voice be trusted? Can the Princess be trusted? Can anyone be trusted?
Over the course of their journey, the player will die. A lot. And every time they die, the game starts over, only things are a little different. The cabin is different, the Princess is different, even the voices in the player’s head are different. And everyone, except for the narrator, remembers everything that’s happened. At its core, Slay the Princess is a game about choice and the way our perceptions shape the world around us.
Who the player chooses to believe and how they react to new information shifts the direction of the story in dramatic ways, including changing the Princess herself. The next time you see her, will she be an ordinary princess, or will she be a towering, 10-foot-tall demon? Or, will she be something straight out of your nightmares?
Our own Jerry Williams found plenty to love about the game, and Patrick Gann had similarly positive sentiments about its original soundtrack.
Slay the Princess is available now on PC, macOS, and Linux via Steam and GOG. If you’d rather try it out, itch.io has a demo for download.
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