Artifact [v0.79.58] [Mesmerizers]

October 14, 2024F95

You are a 24-year-old male graduate student studying Archaeology at modern-day Miskatonic University. Being the perfect student,
you are on the road to achieve your dreams and with your whole life ahead of you.
All of that begins to change when a mysterious artifact is discovered outside of Dunwich.
Do you have what it takes to transform your school into your own personal harem while avoiding suspicion,
and bring about a lustful apocalypse?
In Artifact you have one school year to stealthily turn the entire campus into your sex-crazed bimbo sluts,
without being caught by a mysterious rival who’s on the hunt for you.

Artifact is a Lovecraftian adult text adventure coded in Twine. It is currently in alpha, and is early access.
There will be over 20 unique characters (about a 2:5 male-to-female ratio) and there over 90 possible sex scenes.

Thread Updated: 2024-10-14

Release Date: 2024-09-05

Developer: Mesmerizers Patreon – Itch.io – Steam

Censored: No

Version: 0.79.58

OS: Windows

Language: English

Genre:

2dcg, Male protagonist, Futa/trans, Group sex, Groping, Handjob, Multi penetration, Romance, Teasing, Vaginal sex, Text-based

Installation:

1. Extract and run.

Changelog:

v0.79.58

+Added female-player “Get fucked by…” sex scenes for

Huong
Dr. Ella Fairfax
Dr. Lydia Sterling
Melissa
Mikah
Priya
Tom
Ying

+Added a new ability: Rebellious Lust

Satisfying your own lustful desires far surpasses your will to serve. Ejaculating inside of a vagina will no longer cause a penis to grow on Affected females… but at what cost?
This ability costs no XP, and also does not count toward the unlocking of higher tier abilities.

+Speed is now giftable

Speed will lower an NPC’s IQ

*Female players will no longer create Ph’tanari when engaging in vaginal sex with a female NPC

*Added a Forbidden Acts section to the Celaeno Fragments, as well as made small revisions to the Ph’tanari, Husks, Powers, Affected, and Broodmother sections

*Amended more stray references to male anatomy when player is female

*Fixed an issue that could cause both the male-player and female-player sex scene images to be shown for female players

*Fixed issue that could cause a few very specific changes regarding Dr. Lydia Sterling to not occur

v0.79.57

*Fixed some moments early in Priya’s quest where Futa players were treated as either full male or female

*Fixed an issue that could mess up some formatting and functionality of the APP sidebar

*Fixed an issue that could prevent ordering penis enlargement pills or libido pills

-Removed excess slots from the Load option in the sidebar (they didn’t function, as they were mistakenly leftover from some testing)

v0.79.56

+Added Priya’s entire questline, with a new item as a possible quest reward

+Added female player variant of Dr. Howard’s “Get fucked by…” sex scene

+Added new Home background image

+Added a “clear cache” option to the Dev Console. This should help alleviate some performance issues, but further testing is required to make sure it doesn’t negatively impact other areas of the game. As with all other items in the Dev Console, exercise extreme caution if using.

*Ms. Lane can no longer make an appearance in Dr. Sterling’s quest if she has been made into a broodmother

*Fixed issue that could cause multiple sex scene images to show in the same scene for female players

*Fixed issue that caused Ms. Lane’s image to show in Dr. Jackson’s female-player “Get fucked by…” sex scene

*Fixed issue that prevented Dr. Howard’s penis from showing on his Diminished Lvl3 paperdoll

*Restored a missing link in Ying’s fellatio scene

*Performance improvements

*Formatting improvements for the Lower Campus and the Daily Schedule

v0.79.55

+Added the first few female player “Get fucked by…” sex scene art for the following characters:

Madison (Occult Club)
Detective Lawson (Police)
Ms. Lane (Librarian)
Harriet (Cafeteria Worker)
Dr. Jackson (Business Professor)

*Improved support for alternate resolutions

v0.79.54

*Fixed several bugs in the husk system, all due to one error where the system was “forgetting” the gender of a husk

Fixed an issue that caused Male husks to rarely generate
Fixed an issue that caused Female essences to turn into Non-binary essences
Fixed another error that prevented breast & penis size essences from appearing
Fixed the occasional husk having no image

*Madison’s quest is no longer repeatable

*Small improvement on husk possession images

*Minor performance improvements

v0.79.53

+Added Dr. Lydia Sterling’s full questline

+Added a frenzy scene for Melissa

She is located very close to her original location
If the player has already pushed Melissa to the point of frenzy where she would originally leave, she will now return as of this update

+Added the ability to infest male characters with parasites, so long as they are not diminished

This effect is currently only cosmetic, as diminished males already become willing females, and sex scenes for non-diminished males are still in the pipeline

*Revised Madison’s questline (spoilers ahead)

If giving Madison the correct textbook, the player will still have a chance to warn her about the Keeper of Secrets before the interaction ends
When giving Madison the incorrect textbook and choosing to warn her, the quest now completes and rewards XP
Attempting to find Madison post-questline where the incorrect textbook was given to her will now drop hints about her fate
The quest log should now properly update between the quest stages regardless of path chosen
Some of these changes may not work for existing saves where the quest has already started or completed, so a Debug subsection with a Madison Quest option has been added to the Dev Console and may be used to Force Complete (or Force Reset) the quest if any issues have arise

*Applied a fix for an error where Madison could disappear from her location prematurely

*Applied a fix for an issue where the player could get stuck at Tom’s house if he went into a frenzy while there

*Applied a fix for the police station quest

where a scene could prematurely play out before player interaction
where a potential penis size change would not successfully occur

*Melissa’s location will no longer get tangled with Priya’s location once Priya has been frenzied

*Improved formatting for the quest tracker, frenzies, and arboretum overlook

*Obtaining the restricted section pass from anyone now passes time

*The Arboretum Overlook is now considered part of the Arboretum, and not part of the Art Building

*Added some more text to the end of the introduction

*Edited some descriptions around the art building

*Various spelling and grammar fixes

*Minor performance improvements

v0.79.52

+Added the following images for Harriet

Infested Bust
Oral (BOTH giving & receiving) sex scene
Anal (BOTH giving & receiving) sex scene
Titfuck sex scene
Vaginal sex scene
Frenzy scene
Futa frenzy scene

+Added Ying’s Diminished2 image

*Fixed issue where audio controls for new games began at 0

*Minor performance improvements

v0.79.50:

+Added glowing eye images for infested characters

*Made the dark veins in the infested images more prominent

*Madison will now disappear from the student center after a certain outcome

*Madison’s final quest will now tell the player about the flirt bonus gained after a certain outcome

*Fixed issue that could prevent Harriet’s images from showing up

*Fixed issue that skewed infested images for born-male characters

*Fixed Dr. Lydia Sterling’s image alignment

*Fixed issue that prevented Hair Color text from displaying

*Using Diminish on a character will now automatically refresh the interaction bar to open up any new interactions

*Fixed issue where a rogue “broken image” icon would show up for Ying and Dr. Jackson when there actually was no missing image

*Huong no longer has a stray black hair when it’s supposed to be platinum blonde

v0.79.49:

+Added Harriet’s main images

Bust
Paperdoll

+Added Madison’s full questline, and revised a bit of the existing text. Multiple different resolutions and endings, plus a new unique item as a reward for a certain ending!

*The daily schedule in the sidebar will now update with new class information after changing identities

*Fixed an issue that could prevent a certain event from playing out when edging at home

*Performance improvements for the SHiMMER news feed

*Further reduced the number of save slots available by 1 (this will NOT affect grandfathered slots)

*Further scaling/formatting improvements

*Certain ambience, sound effects, and music will now respond better

v0.79.48:

*Fixed an error that prevented the Intrusive upgrades from showing

*Further scaling/formatting improvements for reserved husks, character paperdolls, and the mobile Friends List

v0.79.47:

+Added Ying’s frenzy images

*The Upgrades screen can now be accessed from a new icon in the sidebar, saving you the trouble of having to travel to your bedroom each time you want to access it

*Further scaling/formatting improvements for the Info sidebar, Upgrades, character presences, frenzies, and the interaction bar

*Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong paperdoll to show for husks during possession scenes

*Fixed a rogue parenthesis that could appear in the sidebar for dark-skinned Pcs

*Minor performance improvements

v0.79.46:

*Improved some formatting/scaling for parts of the sidebar, possession scenes, inventory, game menu, and the expanded map.

*The yearly schedule will no longer show players their chance to pass the midterms if the day of midterms has already occurred, in which case it will now show whether or not they passed. In addition, the yearly schedule can now be opened multiple times without having to reload/switch passages first.

*The game will now try harder to adapt to screen width sizes under 1440px

*Changed the map font to something more thematic, yet legible

*Female MCs will now see Libido Pills instead of Penis Enlargement Pills

v0.79.21:

+Added Dr. Ella Fairfax’s bust image

+Added female player sex scenes (written) for the following characters:

Ms. Lane
Ying
Harriet
Huong
Priya

+Added new music for the main Game Over scenarios

+Added new ambience for the arboretum

v0.79.20:

+Added new option to the Preferences menu: Quicksave Behavior

Unlimited – A new slot will be created for every quicksave.
Restricted – Quicksaves will only create new slots after each manual save.
Single – Quicksaves will only save to one slot.
Applied a fix that caused multiple manual saves to improperly function
Broodmothers are no longer capable of frenzying, or of “jumping” the player *Applied a new fix that caused players to get stuck in the lab with Maya if she was a broodmother
The menu button will now only enable after the player sleeps on Day 0
Fixed issue where the Main Menu link would not work in the Settings menu if another link had already been clicked before leaving the screen
Improved Preferences menu formatting

v0.79.19

+Added Priya artwork:

Paperdoll
Frenzy
6 Sex scenes

+Expanded the Bidding mechanic:

When commanding an NPC to do your bidding, you can now choose to have them help with suspicion reduction, retrieving an item, or making cash. Further explanations below.
Suspicion reduction: Gives you a chance to recover various amounts of suspicion. Most of this time this will be a small to moderate amount, but sometimes (especially for certain NPCs with a lot of pull) this is more likely to result in a large amount.
Item retrieval: The NPC will try to grab you various useful items like Speed, Penis Enlargement Pills, and more. Occasionally this may produce any other item that’s not as outwardly helpful.
Cash generation: Pretty self-explanatory. The NPC will make, or find, cash for you. The amount of cash will normally be a meager amount, but on occasion can become quite high.
Once an NPC is commanded to do your bidding, they will automatically continue to do so daily until either you tell them to stop, or if their Arousal drops below 6 or exceeds 7.5.
Assigning this action for the first time grants an instant reward for each NPC. All subsequent rewards are provided automatically overnight.
Bidding commands (whether it’s the initial command, changing the type of bidding, or commanding them to stop) will cost time. Once set, the daily automatic bidding costs nothing.
Some NPCs have (or will have) a special command available that is exclusive for their character. These commands are not auto-repeatable, and must be initiated manually.

*Fixed an issue with Gifting that was resulting in most items never succeeding

*Improved the New Day format

*Suspicion changes as a result of dick size changes are now identified as such. This is to separate the notification from other suspicion change notifications that may occur simultaneously.

v0.79.18

+Added dynamic ambience to campus buildings, and even more to the general campus

+Added some sound effects to the boiler room

*Clicking “Resume” after entering the Menu before loading/creating a game will now take you back to the title screen

*Fixed issue where some new sounds would not respond to sound controls

*Updated Patron credits

v0.76

+Added a new main quest, complete with two possible new sex scenes

+Added new doll body sets

Female / Fit (body, faces, hair, eyes, chest)
Female / Average (body, faces, hair, eyes, chest)

+Added Melissa blowjob scene (image only)

+Added husks’ images to their spot in the boiler room (not all husks will have all body parts yet)

+Added a toggle option for fullscreen that appears when first booting up the game. (As much as I’d like the game to automatically switch to or from fullscreen by remembering your preferences whenever you boot it up, it simply is not possible with this game engine since it requires user input to go fullscreen. The best I can do in these circumstances is to present the fullscreen option as early and effortlessly as possible.)

*Expanded the drain encounter

*Professors and staff no longer eat from the cafeteria, except on rare occasions

*Reformatted boiler room husks for easier navigation and cleaner look

*Taking your free meal from the cafeteria should now function properly, as should purchasing additional meals

*Fixed images for Dr. Howard’s scenes

*Fixed issue with Dr. Hartmann occasionally being unable to do his rant

*Fixed missing text in the Ghouls chapter of the fragments

*Fixed potential issue with being unable to leave Archaeology lab under certain scenarios

*Fixed potential progression issue in the red light encounter

*Increased Boiler Room visibility in Student Center

*Fixed issue that resulted in certain library quest text being visible even after its relevant quest had progressed

-Removed many of the “broken link” images, although some few may still remain

-Removed duplicate links from Archaeology Building Bathroom

v0.75

+Added multiple side quests for Madison

+Added first part of the next main quest – the Anointed One returns to campus to find that it is closely surveiled

+Added Dr. Howard paperdoll

+Added Melissa paperdoll (new character), who appears either at a certain point in the main questline, or on her own after 30 days

+Added the University Woods dorm area and their respective husks

+Added the Arboretum Overlook and Arboretum Trail, accessible from the Art Building

+Added a new tip to the early game regarding arousal and IQ management

+Added a Stats option to the Menu, which tracks your largest and smallest penis size in the playthrough, as well as see how the game has interpreted your actions so far. (Stats NOT available if the Dev Console is enabled)

+Expanded Broodmother actions from Maya-only to ALL main NPCs

+Vitae Exchange is now available on ALL husks instead of just the first

*Changed Diminish1 description to specify males instead of “same sex”

*Changed Chocolate item description

*Fixed issue with Ms. Lane and Dr. Sterling automatically becoming futa if frenzied, which caused the frenzy image to disappear if she was not meant to be futa

*Fixed issue that could cause frenzy text not to appear while futa was “Always Off”

*Fixed issue where Maya’s frenzy image may not display if the Cup Size Preference setting is changed from default

*Fixed issue that caused Dr. Howard’s frenzy image not to display

*Fixed issue with Tom’s frenzy that caused unrelated changes to Dr. Howard

*Fixed Harriet’s frenzy to properly change stats

*Fixed issue that could cause Huong to leave her frenzy

*Removed the IQ requirement for viewing frenzy images

*Fixed issue that could cause player to be stuck in a room when its native NPC goes into a frenzy

*Fixed issue that could cause multiple links to show for exiting an area

*Fixed issue that caused some campus flavor text to not display

*Fixed issue that caused Detective Lawson’s BJ scene to not play out properly if it was forced

*Changed link text on student housing navigation menu descriptions from “Continue” to “Info”

Developer Notes:

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At its core, Artifact caters to: breast inflation, bimbofication, mind control, incest (only if you count step siblings).

There are also optional fetishes like: femdom (on yourself), futanari (others), parasitism (others), impregnation (others), exhibitionism (yourself and others), gender swapping (others) , forced feminization (on yourself or others), small penis humiliation (yourself or others), big dick (yourself or others), corruption (yourself and others)
Some are only ‘optional’ in the same way that getting hit by an enemy is optional (an unintended consequence of your actions), or that getting a fire flower is optional (a powerup that can greatly help, but is not required to win).

Q: Why Early Access?

A: I would like the game to have fanbase input early in the process to help curate a game that is fulfilling for them. I want people to feel like their money is well spent. I am an indie developer and have been using Patreon to fund the game thus far, so I am also hoping that by uploading to itch, it will help expedite the release of the full version and allow me to start working on stretch goals so that I can over-deliver.

Q: Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

A: At the current rate, the full version is expected in about 2 years. However, I will also be uploading to other platforms soon where I expect to cut that in half.

Q: How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

A: The full version will have hand-drawn artwork for all of the game’s cast of characters, more flesh to the story (particularly in the latter half), original music, and a ‘final boss’.

Stretch goals would be additional artwork for scenery, artwork for cutscenes, extension of game mechanics and choices, additional characters, and replacing any non-hand-drawn images with hand-drawn images.

Q: What is the current state of the Early Access version?

A: The current version has about 30% of the hand-drawn artwork finished, and 70% of the story fleshed out. The beginning half of the game is pretty rich in detail, but in the latter half there are a modest amount of placeholder scenes that may feel brief. Most of the bugs have been squashed, but you may still expect some.

Q: Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

A: As of right now there are no plans to change the price of the game after release, but this may change as I begin implementing stretch goal features and content.

Q: How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

A: I am counting on community feedback to make the best game possible. I receive notifications whenever there are new posts in the forums and do my best to respond in a timely manner. I am very excited to see the community that will grow!