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2020 · qureate · Point-and-click adventure · Puzzle

Prison Princess

Nintendo console exclusive

Lead two captured princesses to solve puzzles and escape the Demon King's castle. Your actions alone as a hero will decide their fates, and your own! A ghostly sliver of your former self, can you rescue the princesses? A new escape game experience, with cute girls, puzzles, and 'special' events.

Released
30 January 2020
Platforms
Nintendo SwitchWindows
Genres
Point-and-click adventurePuzzleAdventureIndieVisual novel
Developers
qureate
Publishers
MediBangqureate
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side viewText
Themes
FantasyComedyRomance
Engine
Unity

About

Prison Princess (プリズンプリンセス) is a 2020 adventure video game produced by Qureate for Nintendo Switch and Windows. The player helps two captured princesses to escape a castle.

›Story

The Continent of Maygard–

The peace and prosperity brought about by the two kingdoms of 'Aria Zaza' and 'Zanji Zed' lasted countless years.

That golden era is now facing it's downfall.

The Demon King, released from his seal, has turned our continent to a sea of flames.

As cities were invaded one after another, a man appeared carrying the blood of ancient heroes... Oh Brave Hero.

During his journey, the hero met with grave misfortune and perished.

The Demon King's minions snuck into the capital cities of the two kingdoms to kidnap their precious princesses. All hope seemed to have been lost...

However, it seems our hero is not wholly dead after all.

Even as a spirit, the hero is determined to remain in this world, and has set off to save the princesses from danger.

Keywords

  • anime
  • investigation
  • multiple endings
  • princess
  • escaping imprisonment
  • male protagonist
  • no sexual content
  • suggestive themes
  • ghost
  • imprisoned

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The game takes place across five different rooms and becomes increasingly non-linear. As the player takes the role of a ghost, the player indirectly progresses through the game by giving tasks to the princesses. Using a cursor, items in view are clicked which would attract the princesses' attention and lead to solving the puzzles, which can be either timed or non-timed. A spell can be used a limited amount of times.

The main "gimmick" of the game involves particular puzzles during which the princesses in various suggestive and lewd situation or positions. During these puzzles sections, the player is able to touch up the princesses's bodies, however they are encouraged to avoid all "distraction" and to focus on solving the puzzles. The more the player touches up the princesses during puzzles, the lower the princesses' "affection levels" decrease, and the player will get scolded by the princess upon the puzzle's completion. Completing these puzzles swiftly and without touching the princesses increases the affection level of the princesses. A high affection level is needed to achieve the game's better endings.

Story

Prison Princess is about a tsundere swordswoman, Princess Zena of Zanji Zed, and a gentle magician, Princess Aria of Aria Zaza, who have been captured and imprisoned by the Demon King. The player is a spirit without a physical body, having died at the hands of the Demon King. Under the name "Great Hero", the player infiltrates and finds princesses Zena and Aria and is tasked to help them escape the castle and simultaneously take back the control of their kingdoms from the Demon King. There are five different endings.

Development

The game was announced on December 11, 2019. Produced by Yuujirou Usuda, the character designs were done by Ai Akasa and Inui Waon, while Fumiko Uchimura and Mao Amatsuka provided the voices for the princess characters Zena and Aria respectively. It was released digitally on the Nintendo eShop globally on January 30, 2020. It was soon ported to PC and released on GOG.com and Steam.

Reception

Prison Princess received "mixed or average" critical reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Pete Davison of Nintendo Life gave praise to the characters, artwork and narrative.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Nintendo Switch30 January 2020Worldwide
Windows2 April 2020Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Included in
Prison Princess + Prison Princess: Trapped Allure Collection

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