Developer and writer Black Tabby Video games has revealed that its surreal horror visible novel Slay the Princess has reached a brand new gross sales milestone, and the studio has divulged gross sales figures for Scarlet Hole as effectively.
Per a brand new press launch, Slay the Princess has managed to succeed in 1,000,000 gross sales throughout all platforms. As a reminder, the sport launched on PC first again in October 2023 earlier than getting itself a console launch in 2024.
Black Tabby’s Tony Howard-Arias says the studio, which consists of Tony and their accomplice Abby, is “immeasurably grateful” for the reception Slay the Princess has garnered, and so they specific hope that the sport’s success means folks will notice “visible novels are a critical medium”.
It is not simply Slay the Princess that’s celebrating a brand new gross sales milestone. Black Tabby’s first recreation, Scarlet Hole, has managed to hit 100,000 gross sales because the launch of its first episode again in June 2021.
The 2 video games are very totally different prospects, in fact; Slay the Princess is a self-contained expertise with an absurd quantity of branching and response to participant alternative, whereas Scarlet Hole is…effectively, it is also that, but it surely’s episodic, so the entire recreation hasn’t but seen the sunshine of day.
Black Tabby is working to rectify that, nonetheless. Scarlet Hole’s fifth episode is because of arrive on February thirteenth (that is subsequent Friday at time of writing), and per a progress replace on Steam, the episode at present “comprises roughly 300,000 phrases”, though a lot of that will likely be confined to branching paths.
If you have not checked Slay the Princess out but, it is a visible novel that mixes distinctive pencil sketch-like artwork with a recursive narrative about, effectively, slaying a princess.
I do not need to spoil the sport’s many surprises, however suffice it to say there’s extra occurring underneath the floor than that, so if you have not but, you’ll be able to test it out proper now on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Change. Proper now, Scarlet Hole is just obtainable for PC by way of Steam.
