Hello! I've been looking for this particular game for YEARS and have never been able to find it despite constant searching. Around the early 2010s, around 2010-2015, I specifically remember finding this 'fairytale princess knight' game which was quite disturbing. The game started in a bright retro pixel art style with peppy music and a goofy tone, and a cutscene showed the knight and princess having lunch before a dragon kidnapped her. The game then split into two different parts- the pixel platforming knight sections, which were fun and upbeat and had the knight platforming, collecting coins (?), and possibly defeating enemies using a (most likely) pretty basic sword mechanic.

Then there were the princess sections, which were cut in-between the knight sections. When it got to the princess, it would switch to a (fairly rudimentary) 3D rendered animation cutscene style and have the princess voicing over. She was trapped in the tower by a king who was forcing her to marry him, and her voiceovers were dark, implying that the king was raping her and that she didn't know how she could carry on and had her crying sometimes. I can't remember much else about the sections, just that the princess and knight parts went one after the other and were counting down to when the princess had to marry the king. I think there was one cutscene in her tower where she was forced to try on a wedding dress and was crying.

OTHER DETAILS - I might be getting this mixed up, but I seem to remember the app icon being a white square with an ornate-looking key outline in a gradient of like blue and pink or something like that. Again, might be a red herring that I'm misremembering but figured I'd add it.

- It's possible that the game had some kind of payment scheme, as I recall it might have been one of those apps where you complete the 'day' and then have to wait till tomorrow to play the next one, but I don't think it had microtransactions, it might have just been a 'buy the full version for 4.95 to play it all' kinda thing. I don't remember there being any main menu or hub, so I think it might have started on a fresh day at the knight section, gone to the cutscene, and then she's sitting on the bed/at the window saying that she's too tired and has to wait another day or something. I think there might have been a few interactable items in the room?

- Back then I had a cheap tablet and an iPod, so it was either on the app store or google play/android.

- I remember there WAS a 'walkthrough' or write-up of some kind online, because I was morbidly fascinated with it and wanted to know what it was, and I remember reading the few things I could find about it. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the app itself, but I'm assuming it was a generic title that had something to do with princesses/towers/knights/fairytales, etc.

- The devs seemed to be self-aware about how dark the game was, and I think their angle was that the game was a dark fairytale that focused on how horrible the reality for the princess would be, while the knight is off having fun and getting the glory.

Sorry for the long write-up. I want to find this game or even just get confirmation that it did exist and wasn't some fever dream, so ANY help at all would be incredibly appreciated!

OPINION

I think the game is rather interesting, but the mentions of suicide and abuse are not something I would want to see or have EVER seen in a mobile game before. I do give it points for a sad story, and beautiful art.