Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut
Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art. The Pristine Cut is the definitive version of the game. It features…
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut is an adventure developed by Black Tabby Games, released 24 October 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut is
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut is an adventure game developed by Black Tabby Games and released in 2024. It was published by Serenity Forge. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Whatever horrors you may find in these dark spaces, have heart and see them through. There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions. There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings. This is a love story. 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. You *do* care about the fate of the world, right?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, drama and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 131 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 19 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.6 Ghz Quad Core, 4 GB RAM and Integrated Graphics. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 13GB.
What it launched against
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut launched on 24 October 2024, within three weeks of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Silent Hill 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Metaphor: ReFantazio. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Silent Hill 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Metaphor: ReFantazio.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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