Inspired by the likes of You Throw Like a Girl and How to be Popular, Secrets of Charlton School is a small town interactive fiction game that casts you into the world of body swapping, transformation, corruption, hypnosis and magic.
You play a recent newcomer to the sleepy town of Charlton. When your sister appears to be struggling at school, you are tasked with getting to the bottom of what’s really happening to her, and finding a way to stop it. How you do this, and what you become because of your actions, is entirely up to you.
It’s a text-heavy adventure, with illustrative images of the town and its inhabitants peppered throughout. Full day and night system, quest log, inventory and spells, NPCs with their own schedules and motivations, and above all multiple ways to approach all the problems, based on how you want to play.
In terms of the adult content, it features mind control, corruption, m2f transformations, as well as different content for submissive, assertive, greedy and selfless playthroughs. It’s X-rated for content. There’s some sex scenes, but not every passage.
Updates will come when time allows - definitely a homemade passion project. For this reason, there won’t be a patron link set-up. If you really like it, you can give me a donation amount of your choice on my itch.io page.
Any bugs, typos or discussion, please direct to the thread on the TFGamessite website. I’ll be the most active there. I’ll also keep the high-level roadmap there too.
Please note - Reactivity to end-game transformation is limited in current build, so character reactions will break at this point. Also some people are getting a Wacatac trojan warning on the download. I've run a scan with Avast and nothing is coming up, Windows Defender is documented as getting a false positive on this one, but there's the online version there for those concerned.
Mitch Phillips has recently moved to the sleepy town of Charlton away from the big city, after his parents decided a quiet life was for them. What he didn’t realise was that not three weeks after moving, they would set out to Italy for an extended vacation. They left him to look after his eighteen-year-old sister, Emily, who was struggling with leaving her old life behind herself.
All he has to do is get Emily through her final year at school and make sure she gets the grades she needs to go to University. Then she'll move out and he'll be free. But Emily is struggling with her grades and her new school has some traditional views about what it expects from its students.
Faced with the prospect of failing her exam, Emily comes up with a novel solution. One that may help her pass her maths exam with ease, but may cost Mitch his very life.
Mitch - The protagonist. A twenty-five year old software developer who recently moved from the city to the small town of Charlton after his parents decided to relocate. He is balancing keeping his job, looking after his sister, and keeping his relationship going.
Emily - Mitch's eighteen year old sister. Back in the city she was top of her class, but now she's struggling to pass her maths exam. If she fails, it means she may need to repeat the last year of school, and Mitch will have to stay in Charlton another year.
Plus! A whole town full of characters, including bar owners, restaurant maids, school teachers, angry bosses, and more.
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15/11/24 - 0.1.11 Act 1, Bug fixes
Fixed issue with being able to ask Gladys about Ward spell teaching multiple times
Fixed bug where you could get stuck in menus if you clicked on multiple ones
Fixed typo with telling Gladys about Stacey, and it dissapears after you’ve talked about it now
Fixed conversation with Stacey and Britney in Fresh Pot. Time moves by correctly (i.e. Doesn’t if you leave, does if you work)
Fixed bug with leaving for the salon if you didn’t pass cheerleading tryouts
Fixed incorrect reference to Michelle (not Emily) with Jake
Fixed Act 1 confrontation is you refused a deal
Emily’s profile now reflects her hair colour
Fixed bug where you couldn’t join the cheerleaders after asking for more time to consider
Fixed problem of being able to wander around Charlton as someone else the day after transforming
Fixed problem of being able to cause an accident in the hotel multiple times during a day
Fixed the repeat of dialogue options with Jennifer leading to farming femininity
11/11/24 - 0.1.1 Act 1, Bug fixes
Repaired broken link when agreeing to a date Dennis while at the library.
Repaired broken link on learning Ward from Christina
Time now passes with the talent scout
Corrected a italics tag styling for the school gym
You can now refuse a deal at the end of Act 1
Images for Your Street now displays online
10/11/24 - 0.1.0 - Act 1, initial release.
11/05/24 - 0.0011 - Bug fixes, typos and a minor change to the conversation with Christina to make the upcoming Act easier to implement
07/05/24 - 0.001 - Initial release of the prologue, running up until the end of Day 2
Solid game so far, fairly easy to understand mechanics and decent writing. My one suggestion would be to add some hints to make it easier to understand how to progress a questline such as "Talk to X who can be found at Y" but keep up the good work, as others have said this has top ten potential
Really really good game. Legitimately put close to 10 hours just kind of playing around with all the different things you could do and people you can be. Absolutely cannot wait for the next release.
The game encourages youto explored, and there is a lot to already.
Almost like there are secrets or something...
Probably in the top ten games on the site, IN ITS CURRENT STATE.
Looking forward to more updates.
This game is great. I really like the fact that you can transform into other characters, not just your sister. This can give the game a lot of replayability in the future as more content is added.
It's a very slow burn but fun take on a corruption plot. Personally I can't wait to see more, though I kinda wonder how the identiy replacement aspect is going to play out since after a point the PC doesn't seem to realize they are even changing.