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Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut is OUT NOW!

Days mean nothing in the maw of forever.

The wait is over. The Pristine Cut is finally here.

For those of you who aren't aware, The Pristine Cut is a free upgrade to the base game, that among other things:

  • Expands the game by roughly 35%. This means thousands of new voice lines, over a thousand new illustrations, and 17 tracks of brand new music.
  • Adds significant glow-ups for The Fury, The Den, and the Apotheosis, each of which has over three times as much stuff to see as they had in the base game.
  • Introduces three brand new Princesses that branch off of The Damsel, the Prisoner, and the Spectre.
  • Adds an entirely new ending to the game.
  • Adds a deep, interactive gallery to help you chart your progress across over 420 unlocks and that brings back your best (and worst) memories with the Princess.
  • Provides subtitle support for: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, German, Polish, French, Russian, and Italian.
  • Brings the game to consoles — PS4 + 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox! And if you're the sort who collects things, both the PS5 and Nintendo Switch versions are getting a physical release, including a collector's edition!


The Pristine Cut is being distributed as a free upgrade to everyone who already owns the game on Steam. All you have to do to play is download the update we've pushed live. If you'd like to go back to previous versions of the game, you can access them on the following beta branches:

The End of Everything Update - password: endofeverything
The Launch Version - password: originalrecipe

As a note because folks have asked — unfortunately the gallery does not retroactively sync with your progress. We looked into what options we had to make that possible, but the only ones available to us were messy, incomplete, and impossible to bug test. We decided it would be best to launch the gallery bug-free than to take an extra risks. Thank you for understanding!

We're also excited to announce that we're putting out a vinyl with Lost in Cult records, containing live orchestral recordings of a ton of tracks from the base game, as well as some new.



Pick it up when you get the chance! (And maybe don't look at the track list until you finish The Pristine Cut)

If you're in the UK or EU, ordering through Lost in Cult will be your best bet, and if you're in North America, Serenity Forge has the version for you. Same tracks, all of it's glow in the dark, just saving you on shipping and import costs!

In case you missed our earlier announcements, the console versions have physical and collector's editions coming next year, including a smaller EU version so if you live in Europe, you'll be able to avoid extra shipping costs!


EU version can be found here: https://store.tesuragames.com/?s=slay+the+princess&post_type=product

And we also have an art book available for pre-order and shipping some time next year!



A few other notes for housekeeping:

  • We're moving away from Twitter as our primary social media platform. The best places to find us now are Bluesky and Tumblr.
  • If you're looking for places to chat about the game with other players, our subreddit and Discord are where to go!
  • We're disabling the demo for the time being. This is because the demo isn't localized, and we don't want to confuse our players on the state of translations in the final version of the game. If you'd like to play the demo, you can find it on itch.io.


Thank you so much for all of the support, we hope you have a great time, and we can't wait to share what's next! (More Scarlet Hollow!)

All the best,
Tony and Abby

Cult classic horror game Slay the Princess announces huge free update

Sometimes, a game comes along and builds a level of mystique based on glowing word of mouth about the surprises contained within. Inscryption was one of these games, as was Doki Doki Literature Club. Last year, it was Slay the Princess, a horror visual novel with the unassumingly straightforward premise of being tasked with saving the world by killing an entrapped princess. Of course, a good story can never be quite so simple, and the game's plot unfolds with the kind of twists and turns that get players excited to spread the word about what they've experienced. Now, building on this reputation, Slay the Princess' maker, Black Tabby Games, has announced that a free upgrade called The Pristine Cut is due to arrive very soon.


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Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut is a big free upgrade coming in October

Slay the Princess is probably one of the best horror visual novels around, with absolutely glowing reviews everywhere and it's about to get bigger, for free.

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Slay The Princess gets three new chapters and more when The Pristine Cut releases 24th October

A year and a day after wonderful horror visual novel Slay The Princess first released, the promised Pristine Edition is arriving this October on the 24th. Like a very loud sticker on a very large bag of crisps, it promises to have “roughly 35%” more stuff in it. It’s a great game, and this sounds like the perfect time to pick it up, especially if you previously pirated it after the devs said they didn’t mind.


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The Pristine Cut releases on October 24! Also new animated trailer AND more!

We're thrilled to announce that Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut will releasing on October 24th. A year and a day after the original's release. Thank you so much for your patience and please enjoy this animated trailer!

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For those of you who aren't aware, The Pristine Cut is a free upgrade to the base game, that among other things:

  • Expands the game by roughly 35%. This means thousands of new voice lines, over a thousand new illustrations, and 17 tracks of brand new music.
  • Adds significant glow-ups for The Fury, The Den, and the Apotheosis, each of which has over three times as much stuff to see as they had in the base game.
  • Introduces three brand new Princesses that branch off of The Damsel, the Prisoner, and the Spectre.
  • Adds an entirely new ending to the game.
  • Adds a deep, interactive gallery to help you chart your progress across over 420 unlocks and that brings back your best (and worst) memories with the Princess.
  • Provides subtitle support for: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, German, Polish, French, Russian, and Italian.
  • Brings the game to consoles — PS4 + 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox! And if you're the sort who collects things, both the PS5 and Nintendo Switch versions are getting a physical release, including a collector's edition!


And for those of you who have been waiting for an EU-friendly version version of the collector's edition that doesn't get hit by a ton of import fees, we're thrilled to finally reveal that we have one! Its contents are a little different from the US version of the CE — it swaps out the statue, the bookmark and the lenticular for a poster — but at a more affordable price point!



And all of this is on top of the large ending overhaul we released early back in March, which significantly expanded the late game and added a ton of animations.

But wait, there's more!

You know how The Pristine Cut is coming out the day after Slay the Princess' one year anniversary? Well... we've also got something for you on the one year anniversary itself! Join us, Jonny, Nichole and Brandon for a big ol' livestream on our Twitch channel. Abby will be drawing EACH Princess live (new Pristine Cut princesses excluded), we'll be chatting about what it was like to work on the game, and we'll even be playing through one of the many paths through an expanded Pristine Cut route to give you a little taste of what's to come!



AND THAT'S NOT ALL!

We've also got you covered on the merch front! T-shirts and optical illusion Spectre keychains are now available on Serenity Forge's website, and for all of you Pin-Heads, we even have some extra Pinny Arcade Princess pins from this year's PAX West. Get 'em while they're hot!

Look at that keychain. Look at that keychain!

And finally, a teaser for what's to come. I think you'll all really like what we've got cooking here :STPWitchNya:



Thank you all so much for your love and support — it's because of all of you that we're able to take big, ambitious swings with our work. If you haven't had the chance yet and you liked Slay the Princess, consider picking up our other Equally Good visual novel, Scarlet Hollow, which will be getting an enormous fifth episode next year!

All the best,
Tony and Abby

P.S. OH, and as a reminder, if you want to get announcement like these ~in your inbox~ and ~with special, never-before-seen-doodles each time~ sign up for our mailing list! We don't send a lot of emails :)