The Princess from Slay the Princess

The Princess you’re meant to slay in Slay the Princess appears in dozens of different forms throughout Black Tabby Games’ time loop visual novel. She can be a cold adversary, an attentive lover, or a monstrosity of unimaginable horrors that only resembles a princess by bearing a crown. But just as you fumble through each time loop looking for clarity as to why you have to fight, she is trying to understand who or what she is.

Slay the Princess is ultimately about how we perceive one another. Its key players in each time loop and route are just projections of possibilities of who they could be rather than who they are. The Princess explores every path alongside you, even when she’s pitted against you as a mortal foe. Her quest for clarity and purpose in all the carnage is one paved in blood—hers and yours. Even as Slay the Princess escalates into universe-affecting change, at its core it’s just a person trying to find out who she’s meant to be and deciding for herself what she wants to be, resisting the answers forced on her by someone else. — Kenneth Shepard