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I really debated whether or not I wanted to write about this, but I couldn’t stop thinking about things I wanted to say about it, so we’ll go ahead and talk about Flexible Survival.

Flexible Survival is an Interactive Fiction game. It has some RPG elements, and one of the main mechanics is attempting to find enough supplies to survive. You’ve hidden in a shelter after a horrible, nano-machine created apocalypse. However, you didn’t prepare a lot of food, and it’s going to be at least 30 days before any sort of order is restored to this crazy society. You have to start going out and foraging in what remains of the city you lived in. You seek out new places to scavenge, build relationships, and fight battles and level up. Though still being put together, it’s already really functional. It works, and it’s pretty well written.

It’s also totally about lots and lots of furry transformation fetish sex.

Lose a battle? You get raped. Win a battle? Depending on your current state, you may rape your opponent. Every time you have sex with someone, some of their traits rub off on you due to nanomachine corruption, and those machines are constantly working at your brain, to turn you completely into a feral being of lust. Have too much sex with taurs, and you’ll slowly turn into such a beast. Have too much sex with the opposite sex, and you’ll start to grow another set of genitals. Play with a goo girl? You might find yourself turning into a slime creature.

Most of the time, when you have something like this, it’s purely masturbation material, and usually not that great. It’s not written all that well, or it’s short, to the point, and lacking in world building or general planning. Flexible Survival really doesn’t feel like that. Your body can be in I don’t know how many configurations, and the setup adjusts the various sex scenes to reflect this, and for the most part these scenes don’t jump out as having parts cut-and-pasted in to reflect the current status of your character. They just seem to work like someone is writing them.
What’s more, there really is an actual game here. It’s still being built, of course. Combat is still coming along, and I didn’t really find too big a variety of weapons in its current state. There’s also a Feat system coming that will let you customize yourself even more as you go along. But it’s seriously an actual game. You have to balance searching for neat content and new foes with searching for food and water. There are, from what I understand, multiple endings depending on the state of your character and what you did through your 30 days, and you are rewarded for all the different types of changes to yourself, as well as being good, uncorrupted, and only seeking out consensual relationships. These relationships aren’t necessarily the deepest things in the world, but there’s enough there to make them feel real enough, in the context of the game. You could buy that these people would like to spend time with your character, and aren’t just being items that respond to the command “fuck x.” (Though, you know, they do respond to that command.)

Basically, I am just really impressed. Usually when I see this much work put into a furry porn project, I am partially confused at why this was the thing they spent their time on. But this is, easily, better constructed than some non-porn-y Interactive Fiction I have played, well-conceptualized, and, if you’re into the sort of thing in there, is pretty exciting. I was linked to this game kind of at random, but it really got some claws into me. The extremely NSFW link is right here if you would like to try it. (I put it at the end so you’d be sure to know what you were getting into before you went there!) I personally hope it continues to be updated for awhile. A little more polish all around, and a wider variety of encounters, and you’d really have something special here, if only for a fairly niche audience.