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Julian Fietkau @julian@fietkau.social

12/20/2025, 11:27:53 PM

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Drawn blood and gore

I forgot to post about it, but last month I got the #ArtBook for “Slay the Princess” by @blacktabbygames, a 2023 game which btw is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess__The_Pristine_Cut/

The book is styled like a 250+ page choose your own adventure thing, with nearly all the artwork from the game plus WIP stuff and behind the scenes info. Great fun! 👍

This was a long preorder, but the second print run is still available: https://store.serenityforge.com/products/the-art-of-slay-the-princess-the-pristine-cut-reprint-release

#SlayThePrincess #Art #IndieGames #Merch

Cover of the Slay the Princess art book. A large, wide format book with white lettering on a textured black background. The title is The Art of Slay the Princess, with credit to Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias. The cover artwork depicts the princess, contrasting in bright white against the backdrop, while a tall dark figure with gleaming eyes ominously appears in the background and seems to wrap the princess in large black wings. The art style is stylized, graphic-novel-like with anime leanings, slightly sepia-tinted black and white with sketchy lines and detailed shadows.

Page 13 showing half a dozen character artworks, one with three variants, of the princess in a POV combat scene, kicking and throwing punches. She is fierce and menacing here. There are blood splatters, cuts on her body, and in some of the variants one of her hands is cut off. In the final image, she has a dagger sticking in her chest. The page contains dialogue quotes and narration from the game as well as artist commentary. A text box shows the choice-based structure of the book, directing the reader to page 34 from this one.

Page 225, showing a different combat scene where the princess is still chained by her wrist, but turns the table on the main character, who is depicted in defense and overwhelmed. The princess cuts herself out of the chain (by cutting off her hand) and stabs the main character. The art and printed quotes frame her as heroic. There are several additional text boxes showcasing the multiple internal voices mechanic from the game, in this case including short quotes from the Voice of the Cold and the Voice of the Opportunist.

Page 178, showing a wide illustration of a stone hallway staircase from the bottom. At the top of the staircase, the princess stands, gaunt, ghostly and distorted, holding an oil torch. In the printed dialogue, she muses about the building being their cause of strife before throwing the torch at the main character and lighting the room on fire.

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