70%Strong matchSlay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
97%24k97% positive reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive across 24k reviews·Visual Novel · Choices Matter
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You are a scholarship student at the secluded Veir Academy. Two heroines. Nora or Lika? Trust or distance? Submit to the system — or break it? An introspective visual novel about tension, closeness, and silent choices.

You are a scholarship student invited to the Weir Academy, an aristocratic educational institution hidden from outsiders.
Amidst strangers' glances and locked corridors, you meet two students:
Nora is sharp, predatory, calm. She knows how to ask questions without saying them out loud. Flirting is a strategy for her. Silence is control.

Lika is quiet, reserved, and unbroken. Behind her aloofness lies tension and vulnerability that cannot be fixed, only accepted. She does not seek allies. But if you are close to her, it means more than it seems.

You gradually become closer to one of them.
You choose whom to trust.
And you don't always realize when you've made that choice.

The deeper you dive, the harder it is to understand what exactly you are choosing—the person, the truth, or the side.

You can distance yourself.
You can let someone in.
You can follow the system's path.
Or you can destroy everything.


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Thank you for stopping by.
This is my first game as a developer.
I put everything I love into it: introspection, tension, choices without templates — and characters you can't help but care about.
I hope you enjoy it.
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Music by Maarten Schellekens.
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