Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Hey folks! Really excited to reveal the next round of Slay the Princess merch with fangamer, including: A plush of a devious little guy, complete with glow-in-the-dark eyes. A tapestry/throw blanket of everyone's favorite Princess (before t…

Folks keep asking us, can I buy the art book, but only the cover, and on a piece of paper without any text on it to put on my wall? If that sounds like you or someone you know, then I have some good news for you! You can do that, now, TODAY…

Hello everyone! We're extremely excited to announce that we've started a publishing label, and that the first game we've signed is the sophomore title from our dear friends at sunset visitor 斜陽過客, who you might know from the Peabody-winning…

Hello heroes, slayers and yearners! We are thrilled to announce that Slay the Princess has officially surpassed one million units sold. When we started work on this project, we couldn't imagine where it would wind up taking us. Visual novel…

After a YEAR of teasers, THE "The Witch Princess (Plush)" is FINALLY HERE, alongside a ton of new and exciting Slay the Princess merch from Fangamer, including a limited stock of art books.These items are available on both fangamer.com AND …

Hey folks! The digital version of The Art of Slay the Princess is OUT NOW as DLC for the game. A nearly 300 page PDF, inspired by the CYOA books of your childhood! It's like playing a (digital) analog version of the game, complete with arti…

Slay the Princess is going to turn TWO in just a month, and we've got a few things planned to celebrate with you all. October 20th sees the release of the digital version of the Slay the Princess Artbook. It should be set up with hyperlinks…

UPDATE: fangamer and fangamer.eu will also be carrying limited quantities of the art book. we won't have a link to purchase until they have those copies in hand, but we'll make an announcement as soon as they do! You can also wishlist the d…

Hey folks! Some long work is finally coming to an end, and we're thrilled to share that the physical editions AND the art book for Slay the Princess will be releasing on August 15th. It took longer than anticipated to finalize mould and pai…

When you make your way out of the cabin in the woods at the end of a production cycle, what happens next? With the release of Slay The Princess: The Pristine Cut DLC, I asked Black Tabby Games developers Tony Howard-Aris and Abby Howard abo…

Hey folks! We're extremely happy to share that Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut is a finalist for this year's Nebula Awards (Best Game Writing.) It's a huge honor for our work to be acknowledged this way, and we wouldn't be here without…

Fixed a translation error where a narrator line in happily ever after would display english rather than translated text. Fixed a rare logic error in spectre where a player who triggered the "harsh" spectre variant would unintentionally be p…

Hey folks! A small (and probably final) content update for Slay the Princess just went live — The Voice of the Skeptic now accompanies you on the Deconstructed side of Happily Ever After instead of Voice of the Paranoid. I’m not sure why I …

Dearest Slayers, You can now build decks with Slay the Princess-themed playing cards in Balatro! Please enjoy your new Spades as well as probably the most unhinged professional email I've ever sent. :) Best, Tony

Hey folks! We're so excited to share the first wave of Slay the Princess merch we're doing with Fangamer. This round is three items: A "Heart, Lungs, Liver, Nerves" longsleeve shirt. A Shifting Mound T-Shirt. A beautiful stained-glass pin o…

Small number of fixes: Fixed reported typos/mistranslations for the Polish translation. (Still working on compiling and fixing these for other languages, more polish fixes to come as well) Fixed a sprite in PatD where the Princess has two l…

Now that the console and PC builds are synced, I've caught up on the past month or so of reported bugs. Highlights/general notes: 1. Fixed a number of typos or instances where the spoken dialogue didn't sync word-for-word with the written t…

Hey folks! Just wanted to share that Slay the Princess won the award for best new characters and the grand prize at this year's Indie Live Expo in Tokyo! To celebrate, both of our games are 20% off for the next week. Since this is a pretty …

Hey folks! The nomination period for the Steam Awards is here, and we'd deeply appreciate it if you nominated Slay the Princess for the Labor of Love award. Since we first released the base game last year, this is the only category we'll el…

Following on from the big free The Pristine Cut upgrade, Slay the Princess from Black Tabby Games continues to do really well. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/slay-the-princess-hits-a-big-milestone-with-ove…

Hey folks! We're beyond thrilled to announce that Slay the Princess has sold over 500,000 copies globally across PC, Mac, Linux, and consoles! It's been one of the greatest experiences of our lives watching so many of you connect with this …

Re-worked the new version of The Unknown Together track to be closer to the original release's version while still retaining the live performances. Added a new line of dialogue in the lead-up to Damsel 3, and added an extra dialogue option …

Hey folks! Just pushed a new patch that both resolves the save data edge cases we were initially trying to fix in yesterday's patch, and that now includes better failsafes to avoid triggering the rare save issues some users ran into with th…

Hey folks! Sorry again to folks who ran into a weird bug with the option earlier today. I just pushed what should be a fix for those issues to a beta branch. You can access the branch with the password waitforevertest Instructions on how to…

EDIT — Hi everyone! Sorry about this. It looks like this update caused an issue for folks who picked "wait forever" on the old build and then downloaded the patch afterwards. You can fix the issue by doing the following: Disable Steam Cloud…

Game is in a pretty stable place at this point, so patches are going to slow down. Will still be fixing things as they're reported. In the short term, we're hoping to add an indicator on the route-selection level of the gallery that marks o…

Hey folks! Thank you all so much for playing The Pristine Cut. We've been floored by the audience reception, and are so, so happy you've all come back to celebrate Slay the Princess with us in its final iteration. We're extremely proud of t…

Okay folks! I think we finally got the gallery achievement working. If your gallery is finished, you really just need to boot up a new game it'll trigger right away. I also changed the flag for the achievement so, if you were accidentally g…

EDIT: NO IT'S NOT. ROLLING BACK. This achievement is my path in the woods. I fear I may never leave. Title. The achievement to finish the gallery should now be working as intended. If you've already finished the gallery, just start a new ga…

Hey folks! Quite a few little changes here. The gallery will now continue to display "hints" when you hover over thumbnails for CGs, even after you've already unlocked them! A lot of folks requested this change and it was a good idea, so in…