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Magical research tower 4 is a short timed puzzle hardening/katame centric tf game. It's a homage to Japanese katame games, with an emphasis on something different happening each level, a high level of difficulty and cumulative effects across your run. 

You play as a series of witches in a research lab under magical attack. As they attempt to escape their floors the risk of getting transformed is ever present. All of them unknowingly prepare the way for the witch who will come and solve the problem. The game is complete!  All of the TF sequences were made by porting models from Koikatsu into Miku Miku dance and then using Katame shader.


The paid version is identical except it contains the optional "Peril" mode which rewrites almost all of the Transformation sequences to be "harsher" or more in line with classical hardening transformation sequences. Think loss of feeling, discomfort, mind control etc. It's not really a seven dollar feature but the fees Itch imposes makes that smallest amount I can still withdraw. I also got a patreon going where it's available for a dollar: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=7871625

Content warnings: While this game does not contain sexual content, it is based around the hardening sexual fetish, where people are turned into inanimate materials. This naturally features a loss of control and agency. Peril mode contains some implied identity death. There is also a lot of cursing.

TFs in the game: honey, ice cream/slime, mushroom, statue, freezing, latex covering, petrification, gold, glass, possession, figurine, doll.


Home page: https://tfgames.site/index.php?module=viewgame&id=3151

Art gallery (In case you don't want to bother with the game wrapper): https://www.deviantart.com/ant-enthusiast

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Research tower 4 Mac 1.03.zip 254 MB
Research tower 4 Win 1.03.zip 212 MB
Research tower 4 Polished Edition Mac 1.03.zip 254 MB
if you pay $7 USD or more
Research tower 4 Polished Edition Win 1.03.zip 212 MB
if you pay $7 USD or more

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This game is pretety good! Just one quibble, during the Bridget sequence, it may be better to have the different spirits- the different ones, that is, that each cause a different change- have different sprites. As it is, it's pretty hard to tell the difference, so bad-end hunters like me have trouble finding each specific one.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you liked it!

That level had a lot of design problems I didn't quite solve well. I can't play with it right now sadly. But the way it works is it rolls randomly to see which TF to give you and and then has a 90% chance that the next time you get caught it's that TF. This was to keep the player from constantly switching TFs and not progressing the one they currently had. It's not a great solution to that problem. I'll think on it.

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A small suggestion: If you tick the Windows/Mac checkboxes next to the different versions of the game on your dashboard, players will be able to manage their installations of the game with the Itch.io desktop app, which makes installing/uninstalling/getting updates a bit easier!

I thought I did! Whoops! Thanks for the heads up!