Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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This psychological horror visual novel, released in 2023, features a branching narrative where player choices significantly alter the outcome. Developed and published by black-tabby-games, it has garnered 29,957 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. The gameplay centers on a player trapped in a castle with a princess who must be slain.
Overview
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Black Tabby Games and published by Black Tabby Games. On Steam it has gathered 32,134 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Black Tabby Games with publisher Black Tabby Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
32,134
Positive
97%
Steam appid
1989270
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.3M to 3.1M
units (median: 2.2M)
≈ $13.9M to $32.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million copies, with a median around 2.2 million, derived from its 32,134 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $23.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $11.50Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.50 to $17.99, averaging $16.83 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.50 on 2026-04-30.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut sold?
- indielist estimates Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut has sold between 1,349,628 and 3,149,132 units (median 2,249,380), derived from its 32,134 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut?
- Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut was developed by Black Tabby Games and published by Black Tabby Games.
- When was Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut released?
- Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut have on Steam?
- Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut has 32,134 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Black Tabby Games's other releases and Black Tabby Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.