Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Key · Global · Gamivo
- Live offers
- 15 offers · 10 stores
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Serenity Forge has put its catalogue on sale and Slay the Princess went in with it. On Steam the game had been sitting at €16.99 for weeks. On 13 September it dropped to €8.49, and that is still the price today: half off, signed by the publisher itself.
That is the announcement. Our own price records tell a second story that nobody sends out in a press release. We have measured this game every day since late April, and €8.49 is not a new floor. Resellers have been parked around that figure since spring, which means Steam has not opened anything up. It has caught up.
Shop prices move from one morning to the next, so read every number below as a snapshot of this morning.
What Steam changed on 13 September
Until 12 September our readings of the Steam page came back at €16.99, day after day. On 13 September the same page returned €8.49, and it has repeated that figure every morning since. Steam charges no payment fee, so €8.49 is the whole bill, and the format is a Standard copy that lands in your own library.
The discount is genuine and it is the official route, with no coupon to type and no third party in the middle. The interesting part is what it looks like next to everything else we track.
Six months of our own readings, month by month
These are the cheapest prices we recorded each month across every shop on the page. All of them are shop prices before payment fees and before any coupon, which is how we store them.
| Month | Cheapest price we recorded |
|---|---|
| April | €8.49 |
| May | €8.75 |
| June | €8.74 |
| July | €8.74 |
| August | €8.76 |
| September | €8.49 |
Twenty-seven cents separate the best month from the worst. Six months, and the bottom of the market has barely twitched. Our file on this game holds 1,378 readings with an average of €20.00 and an all-time low of €8.49, so the publisher sale has landed precisely on a number resellers reached back in the spring and never let go of.
The cheapest copy this morning costs €8.44 with fees
There are 14 live offers spread across 9 shops. Here is the front of the queue, with each price given twice: what the shop asks after its coupon, and what actually leaves your card once its payment commission is added.
- Gamivo: €7.20 with the coupon GCDKGamivo (€8.44 with fees), Standard.
- Steam: €8.49, no fees, Standard.
- K4G: €7.69 with the coupon GCDK14DEAL (€8.74 with fees), Standard.
- Difmark Digital Keys: €8.38 with the coupon Gocdkeys (€8.76 with fees), Standard.
- Kinguin: €7.99 with the coupon SEPGOC10 (€8.98 with fees), Standard.
- Eneba: €7.89 with the coupon Gocdkeys10 (€9.11 with fees), Standard.
Five cents. That is the entire advantage of the cheapest reseller over the official Steam discount, and you have to type a coupon to get it. Anyone who would rather buy from Valve and forget about codes is giving up almost nothing today.
The shop with the highest sticker wins at the till
Gamivo deserves its own paragraph, because on the face of it the shop looks expensive. Its advertised price is €9.11, the highest of that whole group and sixty-two cents above Steam. Apply the coupon GCDKGamivo and it falls to €7.20. Add the payment commission and it finishes at €8.44 with fees, cheaper than everyone else on the page.
The first number told you the wrong thing twice over. This is why we print the price you pay next to the price on display: always read the second figure. At the other end of the same page, one shop is asking €19.90 with fees for the same game, more than twice what the one below it charges.
A Steam Gift is not a code you redeem
Of the 14 offers, 11 are Standard copies and 3 are Steam Gifts. One of those gifts undercuts Steam: G2A has one at €8.38 with the coupon GCKG2AH9K2L (€8.67 with fees).
It is worth knowing what you are buying there. A gift is not a code you punch into Steam yourself; it is sent to your account by the seller, which normally means adding a stranger as a friend and waiting for the transfer. It works, plenty of people buy them, but it is a different errand from redeeming a Standard copy, and the eleven Standard offers on the page start at a price this gift does not really beat.
What waiting would actually buy you
The floor has not moved in six months. Nothing in our file suggests a €6 or €7 reading is coming, and the publisher sale did not create one either, so holding out for something dramatically better is a long wait for pennies. If you have been circling this one, the reasonable answer today is to buy Slay the Princess key from whichever of those shops you trust, and stop watching the graph.
It helps that the game is one of the best-reviewed things in our catalogue: Steam's verdict is Overwhelmingly Positive, built on 31,885 reviews. That is a rare label, and it does not sit on many €8 games.
And if you still want to sit it out, do it without checking every morning: our price alert writes to you when a shop goes below the figure you set.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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