Game: Princess Academy

Princess Academy is not the frilly fashion game you're probably expecting from the title. While you can purchase clothes for your princess in Princess Academy, there's not a lot of variety to buy and the clothes you purchase have no real in-game effect. The meat of the gameplay is old-fashioned text RPG stat-grinding. You have your princess work jobs (including strange stuff like wood-cutting and guest lecturing) so she can build up her stats and earn gold. You spend the gold on classes in subjects like martial arts and science that build up her stats.