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.
v0.8.12
Major changes & additions:
Added a new ‘bad’ neighbourhood, a crummy flat in the redlight district in a building used for ‘other purposes’. This is overseen by a new landlord (the “Pimp Landlord”) who is always the landlord for this home and only this one.
Failing to pay your rent in the non-redlight homes will now have the PC evicted instead of going into debt. Failing to pay in the redlight area will still cause debt, although this may be changed later.
The PC can, on moving into the redlight home, offer to do sex-work as a side-gig. This is handled by events and is not treated as a “day job”.
Two new events for the redlight home, focusing on the impact living there can have on her work. Both of these are currently only available for working characters.
Minor changes:
Increased the weight for the “interact with first baby” scene to make it more likely to fire during its restricted time window. Thanks to AnarChYsT for highlighting that this potential issue.
Added an action to go back to the initial choices to the move-home scene, now that there are multiple available moves.
Redlight neighbourhood has a slightly higher chance of mugging events (90 weight, compared to 80 for the starting home and 10 for the pleasant one).
Added some stats and game-flags to track prostitution, both in the new redlight content and the existing hotel/street scenes by Secondarian.
Rent modifier is now tracked on a per-landlord basis rather than a single value.
Changes for user-submitted content:
PIMP_LANDLORD can be customised. Bear in mind that this NPC is always the landlord for the redlight district and only that – he cannot be given other landlord traits.
Bugfixes:
Fixes to some text issues. Thanks to StuntCuffer for reporting some of these.
Fixed an issue with text about changing landlords when moving back to a home you’ve previously lived in.
Fixed an error reported by Gamecat007 where one of the childfree events was throwing an error when opening.
Fixed a bug reported by StuntCuffer where the “dragged to bed by your hair” route in the scene where your husband demands you fulfill a breeding vow was still triggering for shaven-headed PCs.
