Steam app 1989270 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 18:58 UTC
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
36 months, October 2023 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 437 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 281 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut was released on 23 Oct, 2023.
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. If suicide is a significantly triggering topic for you, we suggest you take care of yourself while playing the game, or for you to possibly avoid playing it.
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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42705860/b7ab74c80c008f1eeccfbc2b2939f52945500dcd.png 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…
Black Tabby GamesHello 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…
Black Tabby Games{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42705860/50c557e135bfd8f504c8ce542d4e10edb6b45214.png 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…
Black Tabby GamesAfter 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…
Black Tabby GamesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesSlay 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…
Black Tabby GamesUPDATE: 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…
Black Tabby GamesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesFixed 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…
Patch notesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesDearest 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. :)…
Black Tabby Games{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42705860/deb8516b676ec80c38ad8ee36f17af1317b21eb3.png 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"…
Black Tabby GamesSmall 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…
Patch notesNow 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…
Patch notesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesRe-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…
Patch notesHey 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…
Patch notesHey 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…
Patch notesEDIT — 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…
Patch notesGame 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…
Patch notesHey 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…
Black Tabby GamesOkay 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…
Patch notesEDIT: 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…
Patch notesHey 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…
Patch notesEDIT — Granting achievement early to players. Rolling back and pushing the other changes while I take a deeper look into this one. EDIT 2 — New update. Gallery hovering and other buxfixes implemented. Finish the gallery achievement…
Patch notesEDIT — I SPOKE TOO SOON. This patch introduced a crash that I have now rolled back. Please download the rollback patch ASAP Achievement for filling out the gallery should be fixed. To trigger it assuming your gallery is already complete…
Patch notesBiggest fix: removed a bug where doing Burned Grey earlier blocks you from doing Prisoner 3. Assorted small fixes to typos. Known issues I'm working on today: 1. Preferences screen is cut-off on Steam Deck 2. Achievement for finishing the…
Patch notesHandful of small bug fixes. A few visual glitches. A few logical inconsistencies. Starting to get tired, so I'll be back at it in the morning!
Patch notesFixed a bug where two lines in Damsel 3 were not properly displaying localized text. Fixed a bug in Damsel 3 where skipping through text broke torch placement. Fixed a bug in Spectre 3 where a set of black question marks unintentionally…
Patch notesFixed an issue with Nightmare's "twirl" that caused some performance issues. Fixed a broken achievement for contributing a variant of Spectre 3.
Patch notesDays 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%.…
Black Tabby GamesWe'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! For those of you…
Black Tabby GamesHey folks! We told you we had more Cool Stuff™ coming in the near future, and we're happy to unveil the first of said Cool Stuff™ as part of Tiny Teams! We're working with Serenity Forge to put together a honking 250+-page long hardcover…
Black Tabby GamesWe're thrilled to announce that we've wrapped principal development work on Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut. We'll be releasing it this Fall (date TBD) so we can simultaneous ship the update with both the game's console release…
Black Tabby GamesHey folks! LudoNarraCon is finally upon us, and boy do we have a MOUNTAIN of things for y'all. First thing's first, Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow are each going to be 20% off, starting at 1pm EST on May 9th. So if you've been itching…
Black Tabby GamesIncreased the size of the scrollbar so it's more easily used on touch screens. A couple of small bug/logic fixes. Switched the (Expand) tag in the late game to (Explore) so players aren't hit by unexplained terminology and are less hesitant…
Patch notesAs part of LudoNarraCon, we'll be doing a special art stream where we'll be answering your questions about the game and giving you a peek behind the scenes to see how the Abby makes art for the game. We'll be simulcasting on Twitch…
Black Tabby GamesAdded a hot-key to toggle auto-advancing text ("T" on keyboards, left face button on controllers). Added a toggle for auto-advancing text in the preferences menu. Clicking to the next line no longer automatically disables auto-advancing…
Patch notesHey folks! Happy to bring a new small update that fixes some frustrating issues with controller support (but there's still some work to do!) 1. Biggest fix is that controller focus should no longer be lost in scenarios where the quick menu…
Patch notesCatching up on reported bugs. Mostly minor, but including: Moment of Clarity sprites not appearing when both flickering and boil effect were turned off. Fixing a corrupted voice file that slipped through the cracks last winter. Assorted…
Patch notesHey folks! We hope you've all been enjoying the new update (and if you've only bought the game after the update dropped, we hope you've enjoyed your first playthrough!) We'd like to get some baseline player data before you al play the…
Black Tabby GamesFixed a bug where an end game Princess sprite was placed too high on the screen.
Patch notesHey folks! Here with a small update fixing an assortment of minor issues and tweaking a few things. Music Adjusted the volume of "Transformation" and "The Apotheosis" to be a tad louder. They should both have a bit more oomph now. On the…
Patch notesHey folks! Thank you all so much for the overwhelmingly kind reception to our new update! We know a lot of you particularly loved the art Abby drew of the Princess orchestra, so we've gone ahead and made it available for pre-order in both…
Black Tabby GamesHOTFIX 1: Fixed an instance of a sprite partially disappearing in the end-game. Fixed a a rare issue where a duplicated folder caused some users to crash on start-up. HOTFIX 2: Fixed an issue for one of the tower/apotheosis ending…
Patch notesHey everyone! We're both extremely excited to share a surprise content update with you all. This is not The Pristine Cut, but it's our answer to a pretty important question: Should I wait for The Pristine Cut to play the game? For those of…
Black Tabby GamesPatch Notes for the big "End of Everything" update, sequestered here so there aren't any spoilers on the big announcement post. Still spoiler tagging out of an abundance of caution: End Game The Shifting Mound encounter now has fully…
Black Tabby GamesEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
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| The Art of Slay the Princess - Digital Art Book | WindowsmacOSLinux | 20 Oct 2025 |
| Slay the Princess - Supporters Pack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 27 Oct 2023 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | SlaythePrincess.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | SlaythePrincess.app | macos | ||
| Launch | SlaythePrincess.sh | linux |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
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gameinstall | game/saves/ | * |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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