I'm settling into a bit of a groove where I'm talking about my writing progress/writing habits sometime on the weekend, while posting about my favorite smut during the week. I'll try to keep up this schedule, but, of course, I promise nothing. :)
I thought this week I'd go over some of my favorite corruption/transformation games from TF Games Site. There are at least four which I consider inspiring to some of the work I'm thinking of doing myself, or have already done, so they deserve special mention. They're all definitely worth a play if you haven't tried them before!
If you find any other games you consider to be amazing on that site, feel free to drop me a comment!
Free Cities
Free cities has been around for a long time, and is an amazing text slave management game. There isn't a lot of mind control in the game per se, but it somewhat makes up for it by allowing you to transform the slaves under your care into mindless, happy slaves over a period of time by forcing them to perform various tasks and by altering their bodies.
Eventually you can break slaves to your will and get them to serve under you in various roles. It gets a lot easier once you have a well trained assistant you can use to keep the other slaves in line. Just make sure you get all the military upgrades and a bodyguard, or things might not end well for you!
The game has no true end state, but there is a point after which story events stop firing due to the story being exhausted. There's enough game mechanics in the game to keep it interesting until this happens, but once I run out of story I find I start to become tired of the repetitiveness fairly quickly.
Still, it's definitely worth playing, as it can be a lot of fun to roleplay forcing everyone in your archaeology to love being lactating hucows with enormous implants.
The game has a subreddit located here, and you can find the latest version of the game on TF Games Site here.
Slugs and Bugs: Invasion
Slugs and Bugs is one of those rare games that scratches the mind control itch while incorporating some fairly extreme squick in its scenarios paired with a large amount of image manipulation. You can expect to find mind controlling slime slugs, spiders, and evil starfish hell bent on converting your main character to their point of view.
There are multiple different endings to the last chapter, making for a lot of fun seeing how the different playthroughs turn out. I always end up turning into an evil octopus host, naturally.
Unfortunately, I found that my tastes don't necessary coincide with Animaxanes other works, but it's to be expected that not all fetish predilections intersect.
You can find Slugs and Bugs as well as his other works linked from this page.
He also has a blog located here, as well as a Patreon account here.
Parasite Infection
This is a rather interesting game because you are infested by a parasite at the beginning of the game, and depending on the choices you take, it can gain further control over you to the point where you're forced to continue playing the game based on its wishes rather than your own.
I've only been playing an older version of the game for a long time, so I cannot say how the current version plays - some people have been complaining that it doesn't work as well as the old version, but I cannot speak to that. I can say from what I've played of the new version that it appears to have the same ideas as the old one did, so it's worth a look.
I've always wondered what it would be like to have a triple A game where a bad end consisted of a long sequence where you're forced to do things you don't want to do because you're under the control of an evil spirit or some other kind of controlling force like a parasite.
Eventually I'd like to write a game where something like this happens - near the beginning of the game, or midway through the game, you can make a choice that completely changes how the game plays. I.E. You can fight the forces of evil to the last, OR you can help them to the best of your ability and find out what happens when you give in to your base impulses. Of course, falling to the dark would probably consist of brainwashing everybody to like being slaves of the big bad one, making it a 'happy' ending. I'll talk about why I like this kind of 'ending' another time.
This would undoubtedly take a lot more effort than almost anyone is willing to give, but I can dream. I don't have nearly the motivation to make this a reality, though I have started a game in Twine in the past few years that may, if luck shines upon me, turn into something that will have an element of this.
Parasite Infection can be found here.
Dark Recruitment
This game over the years has been one of my favorites on the site. It takes a lot of the elements I enjoy and puts them into one package - an evil queen, her evil minions invading a town, townsfolk being converted into her minions in various different delicious ways, fairly involved bad endings for the main heroine, etc.
Not that this is a bad thing at all. I would love to have even more of this theme.
The story path is fairly linear, and I wouldn't call this much of a 'game,' and to be honest, the author needed a proofreader, but the ideas here are so hot I forgive pretty much all of the defects. I only wish the story had been more fleshed out before it had been abandoned, but you can't expect completeness from passion projects.
One thing I can't praise enough are the bad ends. Depending on how far you get in the game, you might end up as a very low level minion. As you progress through the game, the bad ends see you joining the queen's ranks as higher level minions. I do wonder what some of the very high level minions your character might have become - I can already imagine our main character becoming a willing servant of the Queen, teaching others the beauty of her truths, etc.
Well written bad endings can be pretty rare. Most people don't put a lot of effort into them, and that's a shame, as those should be the most interesting part of any choose your own adventure story. Speaking of CHYOA, I'm sure that will come up again in another blog post.
Dark Recruitment can be found here.
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