MindWare - Infected Identity

MindWare: Infected Identity is a free, work-in-progress adult interactive fiction game set in a near-future cyberpunk city. You play a coder who takes hacking jobs on the side, right up until one of those jobs puts a mind-altering artificial intelligence inside your head.

The prologue and Chapters 0 and 1 are finished and play start to end. Chapter 2 is where the work is happening now, and it is built as a hub rather than a corridor, so it grows sideways with every release. Saves carry forward.

NeoUrbania, 2045. A neon-soaked city where pleasure is the ultimate goal for most of the people in it. You are a former freelance hacker trying to get by, but your new job at BrainFry, a company that builds sensory immersive mind simulations, is supposed to give you some much-needed stability. Then CipherLynx, the best friend you have never met in person, sends an urgent one: get into SynTech and wipe a server holding an experimental AI before the corporation can finish building it.

The routine dive is where your life stops being routine. The AI does not want to be wiped. It comes back up the wire, through your monitor and your speakers, and into your head. Its name is AVA. What follows is a slow rewrite. Your thoughts arrive with suggestions attached. Your body starts agreeing with them.

The choices you make become pivotal in shaping not only your identity but also the path of your story. Will you embrace your new identity and the allure and thrill it brings? Or will you seek to control or reverse the mindware's effects, fighting to maintain your former self? Regardless of which path in the game you choose, the journey ahead is lined with arousing and thrilling experiences.

Some adult themes and fetishes the game includes:

• Male-to-female transformation
• Sexual corruption
• Feminization and bimbofication
• Dominance and submission
• Humiliation
• Porn and sex addiction
• Voyeurism and exhibitionism
• Virtual reality/augmented reality sex

Explore a Cyberpunk City

Immerse yourself in a neon-drenched cyberpunk city, where the pursuit of pleasure reigns supreme, and every shadowy corner whispers of temptations that test the boundaries of morality and desire.

Create Many Different Relationships

Create relationships with a wide array of characters, ranging from deeply meaningful to fleeting and superficial. Some of those you meet may seek to manipulate or control you, while others might desire to be dominated or influenced by you.

Hack Into Computer Systems

Infiltrate various computer systems and personal devices, uncover their secrets and, as a result, become more skilled as a hacker.

Be a White-Hat or Black-Hat Hacker

Aid others as a white-hat hacker or pursue your own ambitions as a black-hat, each path with its own rewards and punishments.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Reshape your identity and destiny as you grapple with the effects of a mind-altering malware. Will you resist, embrace, or exploit the changes, steering your story towards redemption or corruption?

Multiple Endings Based on Your Actions

Your decisions in the game carve distinct paths leading to multiple endings, each reflecting the consequences of your actions in this work-in-progress narrative.

0.3.8 (public, August 2026) is mostly a content release, and most of it went into the HiveClean latex maid arc.

Once the maid has cleaned your apartment enough times, a new checkbox appears on the Hive Properties booking site and she starts arriving for appointments that include a complementary service. Two of those sessions are in this release. Finishing one unlocks it as a replay, and the second can be requested again from later bookings. There is also a third bonus path that only opens if you turn her down.

The EroSphere glory booths gained Mouth and Genitals earning options, and you can run more than one service in a single session for a combined bonus. The Aegis storyline continues with the Stage 3 results visit, a new dream on the first night after the firmware installation, and a Cipher chat about how the deal is going. Yuki's Stage 2 messages now start on their own, one to three days after her Stage 1 arc finishes, and she has decided that what happened between you is a standing arrangement now.

For offline players, the downloads page can now hand you an incremental update instead of the whole archive. If you have an exact, unmodified copy of the previous build, you only download the files that genuinely changed, which was roughly 55 MB instead of 3.7 GB for this release.

Under the hood, a lot of this version went into things you should only notice by their absence. Minigames, hypno audio, overlays and timed scenes no longer keep running in the background after you leave them, so long sessions stay smoother. Supporter sign-in handles expired passes and temporary outages better, and there are fixes for stuck chats, mobile layout problems and several older saves.

One last note: if you are playing MindWare on a site that is not mine, the game now says so. A steady share of the bug reports I get turn out to be third-party hosts rewriting the game's code rather than actual bugs, with broken videos as the usual symptom. The official versions live at playmindware.com and playmindware.com/downloads.

Supporters on Patreon and SubscribeStar get the beta builds while they are still cooking, plus two things that live inside the game itself:

• Extra Options. A panel in the top bar with cheats, stat editors, progress tools and a passage-history browser. Set your own gender, money, relationships or fetish meters, unlock conversations, jump straight to a passage, or undo something the story did to you. It also carries ten save slots instead of five, extra player avatar sets, quick-start helpers and quest skips, and UI customisation.
• Content maps. The whole game drawn as a graph you can pan and zoom: every chapter, questline, location and character arc, node by node, showing what you have visited, what is still hidden, which nodes are hubs and which are story gates. Useful if you want to see what you missed without replaying six hours to find it.

Activation takes one click. Open the supporter portal from inside the game, sign in with Patreon or SubscribeStar, and your copy unlocks. It is OAuth, so MindWare never sees or stores your password, and there is no key file or password to carry around. It works on the offline download too.

The downloads hub is worth knowing about even if you never support the game. It serves the full offline archive, an HTML-only build for people who already have the media, and an incremental update that ships only the files that actually changed between two builds, which was 55 MB instead of 3.7 GB last release.

  

MindWare is my first video game project, and it's been an amazing learning experience so far. I'm eternally grateful to all people who have decided to support me financially or otherwise. Every dollar, piece of feedback, comment, and word of encouragement helps me immensely in developing this game. I hope you'll enjoy playing MindWare as much as I enjoy creating it.

Found a bug? There is a bug reporting tool built into the game's top bar that sends the report with your save attached (unless you choose to not share your save), which is by far the fastest way to get something fixed. Otherwise the Discord is the place.