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.
v0.79.74
*Fixed issue that caused Madison's image to show on Harriet's vaginal sex scene
*Fixed issue that could cause multiple breast images to show on a few characters
*Performance and stability tweaks
Full Logs
Further Updates
v0.79.92
+Added a grainy effect
+ (Windows) Added an option to select resolution in the game menu
1920 x 1080 is still the recommended size until the overhual is complete, but 1600 x 900 and 1280 x 720 will also be available for now.
* (Windows) Changed button stylings for Exit & Fullscreen
v0.79.91
*(Windows) The Fullscreen and Exit options are now shown in the top right corner, and will also now be absent from in-game menus (except for existing save files)
Exiting the game from the in-game Exit is recommended. Exiting from the window's close button may result in the game launching “invisibly” in the future, requiring a deletion of the
window_state.config
file in the
.tmp
folder to fix
*(HTML) The Quit Game option in the Start menu now functions correctly again
*Fixed an issue that prevented Male character's penises from showing
*Fixed the issue of Lure not working
At the moment, it is not possible to assign a lured NPC as a broodmother without use of the dev console
v0.79.90
*Restored the functionality of the Fullscreen and Exit Game functions (non-HTML versions)
v.79.89
Hello, deviants! With the exception of some more new artwork, voice work, and reworking the main quest, the overhaul is now near 90% completion.
In the meantime, here's another update for the test branches, this time with some more fixes and improvements to the base game itself. Let's get to the changelog!
Changelog:
*Vitae Exchange will now show the player's current XP amount when in use
*Fixed an issue where taking the Diminish2 upgrades would hide all male character's penises
*Fixed an issue where Ying's image would not immediately update upon changes being made
*Fixed an issue that caused Tom to simultaneously be at home and at work
*Fixed an issue that caused an error in the Downstairs Hallway which repeatedly prompted the player to check on Tom
v0.79.87
*Updated credits
v0.79.86
This is
NOT the overhaul,
but rather a test release under a new executable architecture. This version is temporarily available as a
The file size of the executable versions are now roughly the same as the size of the HTML version, which is about a 33% reduction in file size
Outbound links should now function without issue
The saves are in a new directory, and will not carry over from the non-test versions
On the lookout for any potential quirks or issues, particularly with saving, storage space, image loading speed, media playback, and general performance.
Known Issues
The in-game Fullscreen and Exit Game links do not function
v0.79.85
*Replaced menu sounds with some that are less abrasive
*Updated credits
v0.79.84
Changelog:
*Fixed more stray references to penises for female pc's
v0.79.83
*The “Unnatural” series of upgrades now changes terminology for female player characters
*Performance and stability tweaks (.exe version)
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
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”
vrtrtr2025-09-27★★★★★
I wish vision for a setting and concept always translated to a good game, but it really doesn't. Other reviewers have already mentioned most of my gripes (aside from the monetization path), so let me just reiterate: - gameplay is grindy - reward is minimal - time restraint makes exploration feel limited - player agency feels fairly low - descriptions are copypasted - writing verbose, overreaches what the game is - lots of fluff (UI, font), not enough substance
aiinomegami2024-12-29★★★★★
Great concept and the author clearly knows how to write well, unfortunately it lacks content as of 0.79.74, it's quite laggy, grindy copy-pastes the text from various scenes and the current ending is just a "You Win" screen.
Risax2024-10-27★★★★★
Now, I love games where you are the ones transforming others and I really need more of it. On the surface, Artifact is exactly what I want and with an amazing Lovecraft atmosphere on top of it. Seriously, the writing, art and music add a lot to it. But as others already pointed out, the gameplay loop itself is just kind of boring. Go to character you're interested in, flirt/grope them to raise lust and reduce your suspicion over the course of several days until you can fuck them and start changing their bodies, lowering their IQ to unlock other options and eventually drive them to a Frenzy. Granted, there are some quests you can find that can make flirting easier and maybe make these interactions easier, so hopefully the finished game will be less of a pain in the ass for this. But for now, time will tell. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it, though.
HonestHeuristic2024-10-21★★★★★
(3/7) Overall interesting but a bit slow to play and the core gameplay is very grindy You play as a cultist trying to turn everyone into a bimbo by having sex with them. Strong lovecraft horror themes. The game has excellent presentation with nice music and art for a variety of player and non player characters. There are also some quests which are positively creepy and offer some ominous bargains. Unfortunately the core of the gameplay is rather droll. You seduce the characters by flirting with them or giving them gifts which is just a clicker game. Once you win them over you get one or two scenes of them fallen. There doesn't seem to be any acceleration mechanics to make the process very engaging. Overall a very cool concept which is just a little too grindy to really be enjoyable. Review for v0.79.58
nejfan2024-10-19★★★★★
Reminds me a lot of the CoC games, you basically have to cheat your way through it if you aren't interested in being fucked over in various ways. I wouldn't call the game bad though, it was still a pretty enjoyable experience for me as I'm only really interested in a maledom playthrough. I think this game would do a lot better if the devs introduced more player agency options though, losing control over npcs's once they hit a certain arousal sucks, actually completing the "goals" of the game led to scenes I wasn't interested in either so if there was alternatives I'd probably enjoy the game a lot more. And possibly more content throughout the corruption process too, it felt very 0-100 tbh. Still felt way more fair than CoC or any games made by fenoxo and co. And no furries, thank fuck.
SiggySky2024-10-14★★★★★
The game objective is, within a time limit, bimbofy and feminize the town with Lovecraftian vibes. Kind of buggy and uses male assets for female PCs and give you a penis. It at least offers a cheat option to get a jump on the XP grind to see if the end game is of interest, but it seems structured around either everyone having a dick or being bimbos which isn't my thing.
FlorpFlorble2024-06-25★★★★★
I agree with all the other reviews, but there's something else I want to add here. I don't think the Dev is trying to 'punish' players by having their dick fall off, they're using dick size as a health bar and the actions that you need to win the game require spending your dick as a resource. Except that's very silly and not very fun. It's just broken at a conceptual level. One example: You need to arouse a character to 10 to get them to frenzy and count towards your 'win the game' score, and picking the sex action they like will give +1, and also make your dick a half-inch smaller. When their arousal is above 8, they'll trap you and non-con you, picking a sex action of their choosing. If they choose an action they don't like this will just drain your dick and not give any arousal score. Okay, so that's... not great, that replaces a deduction mechanic with a roulette wheel grind, where you're losing dick size every time. But that's not why I mention it. I bring it up because completing a sex action drops you back into their conversation menu and trapping you in it, meaning that if you finish the first voluntary sex action you're trapped in an infinite loop until the end of the day with that character sexing you until you die from dick-too-small. And it doesn't feel like it's done that way on purpose. It just feels like it wasn't playtested or that nobody considered how its pieces interact. There are strong artistic and writing ideas here, and the dev *can* write well. But the gameplay is so bad that it doesn't matter. I considered rating this a 2 for its strengths, but because those strengths are so front-loaded it just serves to make you waste your time far longer than you would otherwise.
melkor882023-11-28★★★★★
Not for everyone, but the atmosphere of the game is one of the best I have ever felt, perfectly capturing the essence of what Lovecraft is about. There is a sense of profound wrongness about the place and you really get the feeling this dark power is slowly twisting you into something eldritch and inhuman.
rimugofel.repuruhah2023-11-26★★★★★
tries to do lovecraft. fails. pretends to be a sandbox. fails. does a bunch of railroad fetishes, punishes you for doing stuff dev does not like. do not bother .
CuumWizard2023-11-10★★★★★
This game forces it's fetishes' on you via it's gameplay, you aren't controlling the game here, you have no choice! If you choose options that the dev doesn't like it makes your penis fall off then hits you with a Game Over screen, if you quicksave allot/ save scum this game will flood you with save files in no time as it doesn't delete/ let you delete old quicksaves. I ignored the other ratings and went in to try this on my own, now I wasted 2 hours of my life and am going to heed the warnings of bad reviews more from now on, don't give this time sucubus of a game your attention.
Deleted member 49528712023-05-26★★★★★
Decent premise, haven't seen much like this done before and the art is really good. But it's very clearly unfinished. Needs proofreading/editing and can be a bit difficult to know what you need to be doing. Deserves more attention though.
yerif2022-10-25★★★★★
Buggy, grindy, poorly explained, unclear intentions, narrow railroading of fetishes, and lacking in content. What little exists is okay but unremarkable, and the existing content doesn't warrant a "v0.7" - maybe a "v0.1.7"
God of Debauchery2022-08-28★★★★★
This review is for the demo So the description does not do the gameplay justice in a very bad way. Basically your goal is to serve as an "anointed" to some higher godly being by making everyone around you so horny that they all go into a fucking frenzy (literally) without being caught by some other religious dudes. If you only go after that, the game might be decent, but considering the description of the game states that you are building a harem, it falls flat. Once you've fully bimbofied someone, they become completely sidelined, only ever able to be interacted with again by "exploiting your power" to rapidly turn them into a bimbo or looking at some artwork of a gangbang...that's it for the rest of the game. The game seriously fails to make quite a few mechanics clear throughout the game, leading to you just randomly messing around until you figure it out on your own, which could be fun, if it weren't for the fact that there's only three save slots, a lot of bugs, and a lot of unescapable dead ends. As it is (which is a demo) it is not worth the time required to get to the very few scenes that have artwork. The writing is decent, but there's so much of it and so many repeated events that you will rapidly start skipping through dialogue. There's a lot of bugs that either dead-end the game, forcing you to close out and load a previous save, or cause permanent notifications to always be on screen. It has potential, but it seriously needs work before it could be called decent.