Newlife [v0.8.14] [Splendid Ostrich]

Newlife is a lifesim game where the player is transformed into a woman in an improbable mad-science accident and must start a new life as a newcomer to an un-named British city. Alternatively, you can play as someone who was a woman all along, but still finds themselves making a new life in the city.

Characters

The player: The game implies that the main character is the player themselves, a few years in the future. Of course you can create a character quite different from yourself if you want! The game has two starting routes: one where you begin as a man, but don’t retain your masculinity for long; the second where you were a woman all along.

Ivy: Your only real friend. A clever and talented young woman. Who knows what surprises her brilliance have in store for you? Well, if you read the game synopsis then you know, for one.

Horse: Not actually a horse. But how did he get such a nickname? Perhaps you should make it your quest to find out.

The NPCs: Other men and women in Newlife are algorithmically-generated so you won’t see the same ones in any two games, with the exception of certain ‘special’ npcs. Even special npcs only have fixed stats when this is necessary, and anything that isn’t fixed will be generated using the normal method.

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Developer: Splendid Ostrich – Patreon | Blog | Discord |
Censored: No
OS: Windows, Mac, Linux | Java
Language: English
Genre: Text-based, Female protagonist, Male protagonist, Gender bender, Vaginal sex, Oral sex, Submission, Anal sex, Pregnancy, Transformation, Dating sim, Sexual harassment

Installation:
Extract to desired location.
For Windows: Click on “newlife.exe” to start playing.
For MacOS or Linux: Click on “newlife.jar” to start playing.

You’ll need to have Java installed.

Guide

v0.8.14

Major changes & additions:

Some updates to make NPC wealth more impactful.
Improvements to various sex scenes, mainly based around adding alternative text for various actions, especially repeated actions:
Cowgirl: more variety to NPC speech action, NPC compliment action, NPC breast groping. Improvements to text for “keep riding him”, tender kiss, self breast-caress. Added childfree text for failed withdrawal.
Male-dominant sex scenes: more variety to NPC caress breasts action, some more lines to sex-talk, more variety to sex-description lines, improvements to the rough breast-groping NPC action, more variety to initial-entry text.
Sex from behind: more variety for move-hips text.
Doggy: variety for repeated self breasts-groping.

Minor changes:

Added variety when repeating the oral “caress his balls” action.
Some tweaks/improvements to the text for the NPC sexual compliments.
Added a new action requested by Birb where you can ask a man to keep your underwear on during a makeout.
Updated friend effects to check NPC wealth, with some friend effects switching to alternative versions at high/low income levels.
Internal rework of how friend/partner effects are set to support the richer/poorer change.
New friendship event for rich friends.
Anal sex: text variety for repeated use of the “push against him” action.
Anal sex: text variety for repeated use of the “touch yourself” action.
Updated the request condom action in both sex and makeout scenes to have more relevant text when the “always refuse pullout requests” status is on.

Changes for user-submitted content:

Added a “SEX_WORK” scene flag that is set when the PC is being paid for sex and affects text in some MO/sex actions.
Updated the prostitution yml/vm files to use SEX_WORK, SEX_WORK_PIV and SEX_WORK_ANAL flags.

Bugfixes:

Fixes to some text issues. Thanks to AnarChYsT for reporting some of these.
Fixed a bug with the NPC “caress breasts” sex action where the effects on arousal etc were being calculated incorrectly.
Fixed an issue reported by Alpha where the start of unprotected sex could sometimes show childfree pregnancy-fear content (and arousal/enjoy effects) even when the PC is already pregnant.

v0.8.13

Major changes & additions:

Following a suggestion by Leviathan, added a new event that allows for a friendly end to your office rivalry and to start dating the rival without having to defeat her first. This requires you to have been intimate with her a few times.
New small random event that can happen when you’re in a relationship with an accountant.
Updated the minidate exlover scene with a new version by Lost Trout.

Minor changes:

Added some more trait-based flavour options for when a man comes up to you in the club.
A PC with the maternal trait will now be more attracted to female NPCs if they are visibly pregnant or, to a lesser extent, if they have a baby.
Updated some help sections to reflect changes in the game since they were written.
Added some friendly interactions with the rival to the office party scene that are enabled by the new friendly end to the rivalry.
Moved the missionary state-change actions (open legs, lift legs etc) to after the repeatable actions (move your hips, kiss his chest etc) in the action list.
Added some variety to the text for the default breast-groping NPC makeout action.
New “clutch his shoulders” action for the missionary sex scene.
Added text variety to the “Masturbate him” action in the oral sex scene.

Changes for user-submitted content:

Added WATCH_MF_COWGIRL and WATCH_MF_MO as a possible transition for custom scenes, as requested by Stochastic. These allow transitions to the scenes where you watch a female NPC and a male NPC together. See the docs for more information.

Bugfixes:

Fixes to some text issues. Thanks to Saur for reporting some of these.
Fixed an issue where some routes in the office rival scenes were not flagging you and her as having had sex, and therefore not unlocking relevant content in later scenes, notably the dating routes in the victory-over-the-rival scene.
The scene where the PC is kept awake by sex sounds in the brothel will now only happen when she is actually living there.
Fixed a bug reported by AnarChYsT where the PC was not being paid when the landlord pimps her out.