MindWare: Infected Identity is a free-to-play, work-in-progress adult interactive fiction game set in a cyberpunk world where even the human mind isn't safe from malware.
- Explore a cyberpunk city where pleasure is the ultimate currency.
- Forge meaningful relationships with characters.
- Hack into computer systems and devices.
- Decide whether to resist or embrace the mind-altering virus.
- Influence the narrative through your choices.
- Play on desktop or mobile (the latest version features a new mobile-friendly UI).
I want MindWare to give players an experience that combines a tight, well-paced main storyline with the freedom to explore expansive side content. The goal is to offer players a sense of autonomy in how they experience the game while replicating the narrative intensity found in games like Mass Effect.
The game will feature a variety of mini-games that will hopefully add fun layers of interactivity to the gameplay.
I've been a fan of adult Twine games for years and years, but MindWare is my first serious attempt to create one myself. As such, I'm making a lot of mistakes and not always able to live up to my own expectations, but I'm having a lot of fun and learning a great deal in the process.
I hope you'll give MindWare a try and enjoy the experience I'm creating. If you do, please don't hesitate to join my Discord server where you can connect with other players and share your thoughts. For those who want to support the project's development, consider subscribing to my Patreon or SubscribeStar. Supports get access to early beta versions, extra in-game options, additional player avatars, and more.
In MindWare: Infected Identity, you play as a former freelance hacker who is trying to get by in a neon-soaked city where pleasure is the ultimate goal for many.
Your life takes an unexpected turn when a seemingly routine dive into the cyberspace ends with you becoming infected with a gender-altering mindware, a cutting-edge strain of malware that targets the human brain.
Your choices become pivotal in shaping not only your identity but also the path of your story. Will you embrace your new identity and the allure and thrill it brings? Or will you seek to control or reverse the mindware’s effects, fighting to maintain your former self?
Player: A male hacker working for BrainFry, who becomes infected with AVA, an AI attempting to feminize him.
CipherLynx: The player's closest friend and fellow hacker, communicates remotely and likes to share memes and porn.
Drake Voronov: Charismatic but sexist founder and owner of BrainFry.
Ray: Stereotypical nerdy coder at BrainFry who excels in programming but struggles with social interactions.
Trix: BrainFry's sole female employee, a brilliant visual artist with a punk image who designs various assets including VR porn.
Xavier: The physically imposing owner of GitGud, direct in communication and protective of Yuki.
Yuki: A kindhearted, virginal Asian girl working at GitGud, whose brother died from a botched implant installation.
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Player: A male hacker working for BrainFry, who becomes infected with AVA, an AI attempting to feminize him.
CipherLynx: The player's closest friend and fellow hacker, communicates remotely and shares memes and porn.
Drake Voronov: Charismatic but sexist founder and owner of BrainFry.
Ray: Stereotypical nerdy coder at BrainFry who excels in programming but struggles with social interactions.
Trix: BrainFry's sole female employee, a brilliant visual artist with a punk image who designs various assets including VR porn.
Xavier: The physically imposing owner of GitGud, direct in communication and protective of Yuki.
Yuki: A kindhearted, virginal Asian girl working at GitGud, whose brother died from a botched implant installation.
You can find a reasonably up-to-date walkthrough on my website: https://subjunctivegames.com/mindware-walkthrough/
Version 0.1.6 (Public)
- Coding assistants should now be more balanced (but this part of the game still needs a lot of work).
- New avatar set (custom avatars can now be placed in the “setX” folder).
- More content with the psychiatrist.
Version 0.1.6 (Supporters-Only Beta 3)
- Many minor UI design improvements.
- Top menu buttons now double as notification indicators.
- Added ByteBunker OmniPedia entry.
- Minigames are automatically skipped on mobile.
- Added notification sound effect.
- Post-infection white overlay now doesn’t flicker.
- Significantly more robust system for stat changes.
- Fixed dish washing minigame.
- Slightly improved the waveform minigame.
- Fixed bug that stopped rent payments from working.
- Added first sex scene with cook.
- Added second sex scene with cook.
Version 0.1.6 (Supporters-Only Beta 2)
- New mobile-friendly UI.
- New UI sound system.
- New music playback system.
- New start screen.
- Updated Listen to Music section in player’s apartment.
- Many minor UI redesign-related changes.
Version 0.1.6 (Supporters-Only Beta 1)
- Removed difficulty settings.
- Removed Quick Start button.
- Reimplemented minigame skip button.
- Moved option to enable minigame skip buttons to Settings menu.
- Removed morality mechanic.
- Removed some sexuality stats.
- Fixed bug causing scroll to top button to be created endlessly.
- Made first bruteforce minigame easier.
- Added 10 showercam feeds.
- Added version number below game subtitle.
- Added first Rent Compliance Specialist visit.
- Implemented Hive Properties debt leading to installation of SUCKER machine.
- Fixed bug allowing skipping of BrainFry introduction.
- Increased earnings from coding minigame.
- Added visible BrainFry work counter to BrainFry passage.
- Replaced Synapse Steady VX installation clock with video to fix rare bug.
- Added unpaid rent notification to home passage.
- Fixed bug causing psychiatrist to say “hello again” on first visit.
- Fixed Extra Options menu to preserve player name-related variables.
- Updated Settings menu to correctly set player name variables.
Version 0.1.5 (Public)
- Post psychological evaluation chat with Cipher.
- First transition appointment with Dr. Hart.
- First post-appointment chat with Cipher.
- Second transition appointment with Dr. Hart.
- Second post-appointment chat with Cipher.
- Third transition appointment with Dr. Hart.
- You can now change your nickname and name in the Settings menu.
- You can now change your gender in the Extra Options menu.
- Fixed a bug that caused an error in Panacea Clinic under certain conditions.
Version 0.1.5 (Supporter-Only Beta 2)
- Small tweaks to the game difficulty settings screen.
- Added the option to enable infinite action points in the Extra Options menu.
- Added a new OmniPedia section about HiveProperties.
- Fixed a formatting bug in the Go Outside passage.
- You can now get drunk and black out.
- Fixed a bug during the first hospital visit.
- Added a mobile Synapse Steady VX diagnostics report.
- Redesigned the original Synapse Steady VX report.
- The Character Profile screen now displays the correct avatar iamge.
- You can now undergo your first psychological evaluation at the Panacea Clinic to begin your physical transition.
Version 0.1.5 (Supporter-Only Beta 1)
- Fixed a bug that caused the autosave feature to not work.
- The Extra Options menu is now better protected thanks to Moran, a Discord member. Thank you!
- NEW AVATAR SYSTEM that reflects all five stages of the player character's transformation.
- New player avatar images.
- Added basic support for custom avatar images.
- You can now change your avatar in the Extra Options menu.
VERSION 0.1.4 (PUBLIC)
- Fixed a few typos and poor word choices here and there.
- Added a random encounter when you visit the SynTech location (1 in 20 chance of happening). Hint: you need to be infected with AVA for the encounter to get naughty.
- Done some preparatory work to implement a new avatar system (will be included in the next version).
- Implemented several custom macros to change various stats.
- Made the AVA minigame far easier to reuse.
VERSION 0.1.4 (BETA 2)
- Added a scroll to top button (you can disable it in Settings).
- Added a scroll to bottom button (you can disable it in Settings).
- Added a loading screen to initialize necessary variables. This loading screen should mark the end of issues with save compatibility.
- Fixed a bug that prevented .mov videos from playing.
- Fixed a minor layout issue with videos.
VERSION 0.1.4 (BETA)
- Fixed: The taxi hack minigame not working when encountered for the second time.
- TRIX: find out who hacked her phone. Available when you visit BrainFry and work there three days after the taxi hack mission from Ray.
- Fixed: Start your new job mission does not succeed
VERSION 0.1.3
- Added the first taxi camera hack mission from Ray, which leads directly to the second one.
- Added the second taxi camera hack mission from Ray.
- Added cum eating fetish (unlockable during the taxi mission).
- Added a chat with Cipher about cum eating (available after the taxi mission).
- Added information about fetishes in the character screen.
VERSION 0.1.2
VERSION 0.1.1
- Expenses are now stored and manipulated more intelligently.
- Added Community Zone and Panacea Clinic in the navigation hub (in Chapter 1).
- Navigation hub "Go Back" links now work as they should.
- GitGud now has a hub passage.
- AI coding assistant becomes available when you work at BrainFry for the first time since your infection.
- You can talk with Yuki about your surgery.
- You can talk with Xavier about your surgery. This leads to a side mission (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET).
- There's a chance that Xavier will be "busy" when you visit him at GitGud.
- Added a few post-surgery linear passages.
- PornNexus website is now available (NOT FULLY IMPLEMENTED YET).
- BrainFry and GitGud dialogs now display in the right order (newest first).
- The prank mission now becomes available on day 4 of the open section of Chapter 1.
- Relationship status change messages are more informative.
- The Notifications box now displays available ByteBunker jobs instead of hacking targets.
VERSION 0.1.0
- The skip prank job minigame link now works as it should.
- HOPEFULLY, sidebars and topbar are fixed.
- It's now clearer which ByteBunker jobs are taken.
- Nicer scrollbars in Safari.
- Fixed the following reported bug: Notes deleted after saving.
- Fixed the following reported bug: When starting a new game, if we change the "Stats Box" location to "Top" in the settings, there will be a padding-top (2em) applied to the CSS even if there isn't anything shown yet.
- Fixed the following reported bug: There is an S at the top of the settings menu (before the "Display Settings" text)
- Fixed the following reported bug: hypnosis screen infinitely changing gender to female
- Fixed the following reported bug: Character Profile "go back" button going to wrong passage
- EroSphere introduction now shows as intended.
- Added task descriptions during the linear section of Chapter 1.
- Added post-surgery chat with Cipher.
VERSION 0.0.9b
- The last Project XX hypno now affects player's gender if looked at for too long.
- Added volume slider in the sidebar music player.
- Improved how various status changes are handled.
- Fixed issues with identical actions potentially triggering multiple variable changes.
- Changed how APs are displayed.
- Changed topbar behavior.
- Fixed a back button bug on the Extendo website.
- Added an OmniPedia entry for NeoUrbania.
- Added an OmniPedia entry for SynTech.
- Added a shuffle button to the large music player.
- Finished the implementation of the Synapse Steady VX cyberware.
- Lowered the maximum number of dishes to clean.
- Fixed the following reported bug: there is an typo in emailss on the left side bar
- Fixed the following reported bug: Spilling mistake: "bathrooms of possibly hundreds of his tenatns."
- Fixed the following reported bug: The side bar comes out every time I click to move forward. After I click sleep, bam, it opens, work, bam.
- Fixed the following reported bug: "extendo.omninet" on our personal laptop "opens" someone else's laptop
- Fixed the following reported bug: Stuck within the body details section of the Quick Access Menu, clicking "Go back" Just "refreshes" the page. Refreshes is in quotes because it takes you to the same page. You can permanently get stuck in the body details page with no way to go back to where you can leave your place.
- Fixed the following reported bug: I find that whenever a track finishes, it always goes back to the top, instead of moving to the next track for me
- Fixed the following reported bug: Oh right, very minor bit of feedback: If you talk to a colleague but you dont actually talk to them (ie: you dont have anything to talk about, or you click "back" instead of picking an available topic), it probably shouldnt consume energy?
- Fixed the following reported bug: Brick breaker has no ending
- Fixed the following reported bug: Click on the Extendo website in your laptop browser, it will output an error
- Fixed the following reported bug: playing erosphere SIMS did not cost money
VERSION 0.0.9
- Added top bar to display player stats.
- Added play stat location setting to optionally display the information in the left sidebar.
- UI is now partially visible during linear sections.
- The Synapse Steady VX implant is now functional.
- Added a character screen and a corresponding shortcut button.
- Added a computer shortcut.
- Added a right sidebar customization tip.
- Added a Start button hover effect.
- Added a Quick Start button.
- Added an option to skip the Prologue.
- Added an option to completely disable right sidebar.
- Fixed a web browser 404 page back button bug.
- The SIMS watched variable now resets as it should when the player goes to sleep.
- Added a resist minigame.
VERSION 0.0.8
- Added sidebar settings (visible only when the right sidebar is visible).
- Successful bruteforce now reveals the correct password.
- Added anoptional hacking job. Becomes available on the second day of Chapter 1.
- Added mobile compatibility warning.
- Added S.I.M.S. pods in EroSphere.
- Fixed empty space at the bottom of passages.
VERSION 0.0.7
- Added a main story mission: GitGud Synapse Steady VX installation.
- Tweaked dialog boxes.
- Implemented right sidebar.
- Slight changes to certain dialogs for better consistency.
- Fixed a lot of minor bugs found using SugarValidator.
VERSION 0.0.6
- Added Panacea Clinic as a new location.
- Added a main story mission: hospital visit.
- Added a photosensitivity warning.
- Notifications change color based on their number (1 = yellow, 2 = orange, 3+ = red).
- Improved email client design to make read and unread emails more distinct.
- Added the ability to change the first name, last name, and nickname in the Extra Options menu.
- Added the option to enable "Skip Minigame" buttons in the Extra Options menu.
VERSION 0.0.5
- Adjusted coding minigame reward.
- Adjusted starting money.
- Added a rent mechanic.
- Added a Hive Properties website.
- Added a Hive Properties email.
- Added expenses tracking.
- Added a bug report form.
- Fixed a bunch of typos.
- Fixed the Download Wiper Tool / Save Target button order issue.
- Fixed the long black tunnel animation delay by implementing a preload function and optimizing the animation itself.
- Added EroSphere location.
- Added EroSphere pole dancing.
- Added EroSphere dishwashing minigame.
- Added quick access buttons tooltips.
- Adjusted Project XX text.
- Improved Prologue pacing.
VERSION 0.0.4
- Improved email messages.
- Added EroSphere promo email.
- Added an urgent request from Cipher (triggered automatically when you work at BrainFry more than 7 times and then go to sleep).
- Added a chapter transition screen.
- Landlord mission is now time-sensitive.
VERSION 0.0.3
- Improved email client.
- Improved job descriptions.
- Tweaked introduction.
- Added inventory mechanics.
- Added a BrainFry mission.
- Added a chat with Cipher about the BrainFry mission.
- Added contextual narrative messages with quick links.
- Added OmniPedia.
- Added OmniNet page in OmniPedia.
- Removed the player sexuality variable.
- Removed a warning about sleep not working.
VERSION 0.0.2
- Adjusted the difficulty of the hacking minigame.
- Adjusted the sleep delay duration.
- Added minigame difficulty setting.
- Added text increase/decrease buttons in the settings menu.
- Added a notification system.
- Added an instant messenger app.
- Added two chat conversations with Cipher.
- Added a BrainFry work introduction.
- Added three work conversations.
- Added a BrainFry work minigame.
- Added a quick access menu for apps.
- Added a player sexuality variable.[/list]
- Added a week cycle.
- Added an image lightbox (used in the instant messenger app).
- Fixed several bugs.
- Tweaked many things.
VERSION 0.0.1
