The Gentle Art

Description: Your parents are dead, and the only lead is a typed, unsigned letter: "The one who did it is at Kilnworth. Take the place." Kilnworth is an old college that has only ever taken women. This year it opens to twelve young men, and you are one of them. A stranger paid for your place and gives you a room in his house. A girl at your table acts as if she has known you for years. The staff are patient, the rules are strange, and every kindness has a price. You came to find a killer. The college has its own plans for you. How it plays: - A small town on a clock. Each day runs from early morning to late night; every class, shift or meeting uses part of it. People keep their own schedules, so you learn where to find them. - Five people want something from you. Spend time with them, and their stories open scene by scene, up to a commitment you cannot take back. - Three stats steer the story. Corruption only goes up. Truth grows as you dig. Acceptance measures how much of the new you that you have stopped fighting. - The Palace of Truth: collect evidence about your parents' death and put the pieces together. Every answer you find pushes back against the college. - Required scenes always leave room to obey without giving in. Play along, resist on your own terms, or let go. - Several endings per route, plus a true ending for players who keep their head. - Save anywhere, even in the middle of a scene. Saves stay in your browser. Content: slow, involuntary feminization and sissification of the male lead (clothes, makeup, classes, hormones with visible body changes, chastity, surgery), hypnosis and conditioning, humiliation, BDSM, domination and submission, M/M and M/F, non-consent. All characters are 18 or older. The game opens with an 18+ screen that lists these themes. English, text-heavy, with illustrated scenes and music. Work in progress: version 0.3.0, updated regularly. A Windows build and the devlog are on Patreon: patreon.com/cw/the_gentle_art