Looking for Text Based Games, Apocalyptic, Gender bender ect.

Master

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Looking for text based games that are quite good. I'm not fussed on furry content though. I don't find it arousing in the slightest but don't mind it. I prefer human like content maybe mutations of some kind but as longs as they were human to begin with that's fine. (Fantasy is fine) I do like Femboys a bit. School types like School of smut are good. 


Thank you for posting I hope you have a nice day :)
 

splendidostrich

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Hi there! Have you tried my game Newlife? The thread's https://fenoxo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/106-newlife/


As I'm the developer I won't blow my own trumpet by commenting on whether it's "quite good" or not, but I'd like it if you gave it a try and decided for yourself.


Aside from that, there are a lot of text games on tfgamessite. Here are some that I've either enjoyed myself or had recommended to me by people whose opinions I respect. This isn't an exhaustive list, in case some developer is reading this and feeling sad I didn't list them, just the ones that sprang to my mind without much thought. This is sorted by tfgs id number, so ones at the bottom are newer.


Cursed: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=1
The Masculine Mystique: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=82
The Coleman Institute: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=328
Rad Science: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=430
Unplanned: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=447
The Weekend: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=570
Potion Lab: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=777
 

Master

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Hi there! Have you tried my game Newlife? The thread's https://fenoxo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/106-newlife/


As I'm the developer I won't blow my own trumpet by commenting on whether it's "quite good" or not, but I'd like it if you gave it a try and decided for yourself.


Aside from that, there are a lot of text games on tfgamessite. Here are some that I've either enjoyed myself or had recommended to me by people whose opinions I respect. This isn't an exhaustive list, in case some developer is reading this and feeling sad I didn't list them, just the ones that sprang to my mind without much thought. This is sorted by tfgs id number, so ones at the bottom are newer.


Cursed: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=1
The Masculine Mystique: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=82
The Coleman Institute: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=328
Rad Science: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=430
Unplanned: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=447
The Weekend: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=570
Potion Lab: http://tfgamessite.com/index.php?module=viewgame&id=777

Yeah I've played it. Problem was I got bored of it after a while and can't get into it anymore. But thanks I look into these :)
 

Octogon

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I suggest investigating Flexible Survival. It checks off a few of your requirements; gender-bending, text-based, post-apocalyptic, you start as a human, lots of mutations. It's mostly furry, but there's a lot of non-furry content, too. It's also a really big game if you really dig into it. You will need to run it with a special program, though.
 

Sacredferro

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Ditto on Flexible Survival. Don't let the whole "special program" thing scare you off though; it's like saying you need a browser or flash player to run a flash game. You just need to know what to look for is all.


I would recommend using WinGit as the interpreter. I've tried Gargoyle and Glulx as well, but WinGit was more stable and faster to run. Link to the game is below. If you already have an interpreter of your own installed, you shouldn't need to run the MSI installer and should only need the Flexible Survival file by itself. Clicking on Flexible Survival lets you download said file, which will be a .GBLORB file type. The game is pretty big (one of the biggest in terms of writing and scene diversity I've seen ever), so it can be daunting at first, but you'll start to have fun with it once you're used to it. I would start in Researcher mode first to kind of test the waters since that's the closest to a sandbox, no-time-limit mode you'll get. Normally, the game has a turn limit, though some actions and moments of progress net you extra time.


The only downside to the game is that, despite the sheer amount of writing, enemies, locations, NPC's and such, it does still tend to seem unfinished in many areas and even uncoordinated (some enemies don't even have sex scenes)...that and I still haven't seen a lot of reasons besides literally a few unique scenes to be strictly male or female if you can be herm/futa/what ever, most of the time being a herm gives you both male and female options.
 

Tinman

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Big +1 for Unplanned. Some of the others there are great as well, but Unplanned doesn't get the love it deserves.

Probably because it was last updated in 2015 but is still unfinished.  It also misses a huge opportunity to focus on anal/oral sex and getting the PC to truly enjoy sex as a woman (it doesn't matter what you do they'll always complain about the mess and risk of pregnancy from your girlfriend finishing inside immediately after sex).
 

Master

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May 23, 2016
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Yeah that's the problem with some games. They don't get finished, Especially the Sandbox games. Though I will say to @splendidostrich that maybe you should add an unlimited mode to it or is that apart of one of the cheats or something? But I will ask anyone know any sandbox text games? Thanks
 

splendidostrich

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An option for unlimited post-ending gameplay for Newlife is planned, but only when there's enough late-game content to justify it - things like marriage and so on. Probably it'll happen sometime after the relationship update.
The time limit is especially important for new players because I want people to try different characters rather than just keep going forever with their first one and only see content that matches their traits and so on.


There is a cheat for patrons that lets them adjust the ending date - like a lot of cheats that was added following a request by one of them. It works a bit differently to how the public post-ending play will work, because it changes when the endgame events happen instead of allowing the player to continue past them.


As for other sandbox games, cursed fits that sort of mold. I've heard that Free Cities is very popular and I think that's fairly sandboxy, but when I read some discussion threads on its content it seemed to have a lot of very dark stuff like forcing slaves into surgery. That isn't my cup of tea, so I haven't played the game and can't give a personal opinion on it.
 

Master

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An option for unlimited post-ending gameplay for Newlife is planned, but only when there's enough late-game content to justify it - things like marriage and so on. Probably it'll happen sometime after the relationship update.
The time limit is especially important for new players because I want people to try different characters rather than just keep going forever with their first one and only see content that matches their traits and so on.


There is a cheat for patrons that lets them adjust the ending date - like a lot of cheats that was added following a request by one of them. It works a bit differently to how the public post-ending play will work, because it changes when the endgame events happen instead of allowing the player to continue past them.


As for other sandbox games, cursed fits that sort of mold. I've heard that Free Cities is very popular and I think that's fairly sandboxy, but when I read some discussion threads on its content it seemed to have a lot of very dark stuff like forcing slaves into surgery. That isn't my cup of tea, so I haven't played the game and can't give a personal opinion on it.

Yeah I didn't like that game either. Have you thought about M/M content after you have finished most of the main game? @splendidostrich
 

splendidostrich

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M/M content is a bit of a tricky one, at least if you're counting the pc as a participant.


It isn't realistic in the main game because the whole thing is written with the assumption that the PC is female - all the scenes, game mechanics, UI and so on. To allow a male player-characer would essentially mean creating an entire new game. That doesn't make sense for Newlife itself. I do however have a big file of ideas for future games many of which would have a male player character, but I'd much rather finish Newlife and start a new project without the various questionable design decisions that I'm locked into with Newlife.


Having a M/M sex scene either before transformation or during the endgame sequence would certainly be possible as this wouldn't require the rewriting of the entire main game content. It'd even fit with the story - the gender-bent pc could transform back to male, return to the boyfriend he had when he was a woman and seduce him in his male form. The problem is whether it'd be a worthwhile addition for players instead of other uses of the dev time.
With a single isolated scene the game would still not be worth playing for people who only want the M/M pairing. So, the question would be whether enough players who enjoy the F/M pairing would also be interested in M/M as an addition.


So, in conclusion: it isn't impossible, although I'd want to wait until all the main game content was done before putting in optional extras like endgame-only sex scenes, but it'd depend a lot of the player's opinion at that time.
I could mention the "prove me wrong" patreon milestone, which I'll be having another vote on within the next handful of releases, but it seems unlikely that this could be a route to getting a M/M sex scene into Newlife. I'd be fine with adding an endgame (or game-start) M/M scene if that was how the vote went. However, I'd be very surprised indeed if this actually won a vote - from the low number of requests I've had for this sort of content, my conclusion is that there isn't a lot of demand for it compared to certain other voting options (such as anal sex).
 

Master

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I can tell you it won't be worthwhile in Newlife. Maybe in another game where you can have the best of both, male and female. 


The thing is though I like to have options while in an Adult game. One day I'll play as a Male Tough character another a Submissive character. Then other days I'll play the female. But then I'll be like hey I can be both, Get a male and cross dress him up. You could do it with a female I suppose. 


But yeah I think I'd rather wait for a game you make that has the best of both worlds. M/M, M/F, F/F, F/M and so on. So It would be best for you to finish Newlife first. Do you have an eta for full release? 6 months? 1 Year?


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