As October came to fullness this year, oozing with spooky things like an impending election, I picked up Black Tabby Games' Slay The Princess (a recommendation of my wife) as an escape. I didn't know much about the game, but knew it was a visual novel with a new spin on the "rescue the princess" trope. On a dark and stormy night, I fired it up on my PlayStation and completed it in a sitting. It was a treat. Also full of tricks, to be fair, but certainly a treat.