Others - Flexible Survival [v2024-11-05] [Nuku Valentines]

Pros:

Amount of fetishes and their quality.
Most of text are acceptable, at least.
Feeling that you placed in some weird furry world where everething wanna blow up your ass.
Some REALLY hot scenes.

Cons:

Lack of female characters if compare to male. (subjectively, but fact)
UI (or an imitation of it, I'm not sure what it is)
Gameplay is there, but it's easier to think it's not
Some REALLY weird scenes.

I'd encountered the game years ago, but thought I'd check out how it had grown. (06 Oct 2024 vers.)

It's primarily a text-based (has some npc images) survival RPG. I knew going in that transformation and furries aren't my thing, but I always try to give text-based RPGs a shot.

The UI can be rough in that it's easy to select the wrong action, since inputs are 1-4, y/n. Hitting the wrong hyperlink or reading the wrong prompt in the history can mean making unintended decisions. The game does have a content filter that doesn't seem to work: i.e. despite progressively setting the male content to warded and then banned, I was still almost exclusively encountering M/M scenes. Even selecting the prompts to avoid the scenes would still give M/M scenes.

It may have just been terrible RNG, but I didn't see much reason to keep soldiering through squicks if the filter was that broken.

I just... I don't know. I'm incredibly disappointed that such a mountain of content is walled behind such an unfriendly framework. Clunky is the most apt descriptor. It's... functional, but the bones holding everything up are bad. This is not the opinion of someone fresh to text-based games. I've been playing them for at least 15 years at this point, and this is probably the worst of the popular ones in terms of UX. I'm mostly surprised that a decade old game hasn't gotten it's shit together in that timeframe. Riddle me this. how the fuck is it okay that you can constantly explore one location over and over and over again and still not finish the Strange Fox questline before the game's 'time limit' is up? We've got a gold standard in random exploration with CoC. They obviously know how to segment their shit properly with the nav system. Do not give me 17 repeats of the same goddamn event when I have one that I haven't even seen once.

I wanted to like this game, it's the exact kind of game I should like, but it left me with nothing but disappointment.

I really loved spending time racking my brains playing this game, the story is good and the characters are excellent!

My only criticism is the map, which sucks :/
It's not because it's a text-based game that you should even show the entire text, there are still some parts of the map that show where you are but this is missing in many parts of the map and this greatly affects the location

4/5 stars

The best roleplay nsfw furry text game, anyway you can setting what you want see in the game and what don't, not all you cant change but must. Playing in the game you can enjoy not only by nsfw content but and general content too. Really good game, anyway for me yes. Different transformation in creature have own ending (not all transformation have it, only if it was writen for it) aaaand it's made sense to repaly again and again to see, what will happened in the end.

Probably one of the greatest text based games out there. It has something for everyone and you can turn anything you don't like off in the settings. Not to mention it has been update monthly for years. Truly a god send

This is an excellent text-based game, with a wide variety of encounters to explore and the ability to sex each and every one of them, as is proper. It strikes the right balance between gameplay & porn-delivery device, with more and better scenes as a reward for gameplay. If you like text-based games, you're going to find a lot here to enjoy.

The game has TONS of content, stemming from an abundance of random encounters. Mythological and real, anthromorphic and feral, super-science and magic. Anime schoolgirls, hulking apes, sleek panther-taurs. Dominants and submissives, hyper-sexed and down-to-earth. You won't find your niche in each encounter, but I gurantee you'll find it somewhere.

It seems inevitable in a project with this many choices, but character customization is much wider than it is deep. There are a vast number of different types of scenes, and a smililarly vast amount of character customizations that changes few of those scenes beyond some flavor text. The few NPCs that want the player to look a certain way are the exception rather than the rule. This is not and should not be a deal-breaker - the scenes themselves are unique and varied, spiced up by the occasional sprinkling of your unique characteristics. If you aren't finding what you're looking for in a particular scene, keep looking - you'll find it soon.

There are certain commands and mechanics that take some time to get the hang of. The wiki is good, but also a bit wonky: It contains content from multiple projects, and is not always great about clearly identifying which is which. Nothing game-breaking, but you may have to dig just a bit more than seems strictly necessary.

Also be warned: The game does NOT have an automatically-updated quest system. You are responsible for keeping track of what people want from you, and where to find them when you succeed. The game does have a system to help with this - you can keep a journal with whatever notes you like, but you're going to have to manually write each note. You can also use the wiki to remember/figure out the quests you're plugging away on, but be warned about the aforementioned wonkiness.

The tone of survival in a zombie-like outbreak is well maintained through most of the game, but with the occasional drastic shift into completely different territory. One minute you're desperately trying to scrape together enough food and water to survive, doing jobs for the (likely insane) doctor who's barricaded himself on the second story of a now-overrun hospital, and the next you're in the middle of a fully-functioning University complete with regularly scheduled classes, dormitories, and athletics. It feels like stepping from Mad Max into Animal House. Both are good, and I'm glad to have them even though it breaks the immersion a bit.

Long story short, if you like text-based games where you can enjoy sexy-times with anything, you're going to enjoy this game. At a certain time you will have seen a ton of content, and will then be surprised that there's still so much to discover. Give it a little bit of your time, and you'll find something that's right up your alley.

I've been playing this game on and off for almost the game's entire lifespan. It's kinda a mixed bag, but overall good IMO. I once heard someone describe it as "the Cronenburg monster of furry games" and I think it fits pretty well. I would consider this a game with a heavy emphasis on TF in all it's forms (full of furry TF, plenty of TG, and I think even a little object TF and odd ball stuff). It's all over the place in terms of TF themes, with historical stuff, sci-fi, fantasy, mythology and general furry. It has less emphasis on slower, more precise, character customization style TF than the other two most notable text based furry TF games (Lilith's Throne and Fenoxo's offerings), and more focus on chaos and the changing itself. If you do prefer to change on your own terms, there's a scenario for that, and you can even microwave yourself to get some change resistance.

Gameplay wise it's something like That TTRPG 3rd Edition with your ability checks and d20s, 6 ability scores (perception instead of wisdom), perks every few levels, etc. Smut wise it's a blend of "smut on defeat/bad end", "smut on victory (if your character is horny)", and completing goals and questlines. All in all it's pretty fun as a game even without the lewd stuff. Build variety is pretty cool, with ways to make just about anything viable.

Another thing it has going for it is the sheer mountain of content it has from over a decade of fairly consistent updates. This content covers all kinds of fetishes, including those that usually only show up in weird furry territory. Object TF, feral, mind control, lactation, unbirthing, latex, dom/sub play, vore, mpreg, abominations, pregnancy/breeding and more are all on the table, but don't let that discourage you as they've implemented a tag banning system, plus many are niche and can be hard to find anyway. What you will almost certainly find a lot of is TF and TG (TF through sex and infectious fluids), corruption/mental TF, dubcon, and stuff for all orientations. You might think this content falls under the classic "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle," and to an extent, you'd be right. The bulk of the creatures/TFs and some quests are mostly standalone, and early on the original creator seemed to be taking any submissions into the game. On the other hand, the devs have been pretty good about expanding some old content and also have been doing some work to interweave the horde of NPCs that are recruitable to your home base. Sadly that can only go so far and every chain comes to an end, but it isn't a tabletop.

Where the mountain of content really falls short though is documentation. The wiki is an invaluable source of information for the bulk of the quests, but even then it's often outdated, and very much missing content. There is a huge amount of info I would have had no idea existed if I hadn't been following the game's development and seen a sentence hinting at it. Believe it or not, in my experience the best wiki for the game is the source code, so long as it's still easy to find. This sounds worse than it is, as Inform 7 (the programming language it's in) is basically written out in English sentences. Of course you still need to find which file has the event or whatever you're looking for, and it's shit for finding secrets unless you're dedicated as fuck. Good luck I guess.

Also I tend to be a cheater at these kinds of games after a fashion, and there's plenty of options for that. The engine offers a handy Undo command. worth noting that that still keeps everything cached in your save, so eventually the save gets too bloated and corrupted. The devs implemented a workaround to this in the form of an NPC that offers cheats as well as an alternate save import through the "Saveword" command (think old games that gave you a save code). This can also be used to cheat though, as you can pretty easily figure out which numbers in the code are your base stats and give yourself 100 dex. Before any of this though was a cheat code you get from ending the game with a high score (much harder to get with cheats active), which I will not spoil here. That's four avenues for cheating, so plenty of options.

So yeah, mixed bag, but probably the best game you'll get for niche stuff like vore and UB, and TF for TF's sake. Also just generally weird stuff going on. Joke monsters exist, and yet somehow aren't too out of place. Some of the content is fantastic and still holds up, but most of the content isn't new to me anymore. You likely won't be able to do much better outside of ERP with a fellow degenerate. Or perhaps AI generation...

I played various versions over the past few years and the last version I played was from their update in October of 2021. That's the version I'll be reviewing since I like to wait and see but to note the pros first:
The game has a lot of content in it and I mean a lot. This is due to the fact that it's been in development since the early part of the previous decade in the 2010s. There's a bit of something for everyone whether it's gay, furry, etc. One thing to note is that you can also toggle certain things. Say you're into the content pertaining to furries and men but you don't like the content that is vore and you aren't into women as much. You can ward women and ban vore which means the former requires you to actually search for them rather than encounter it randomly while the latter will be removed from your game until you make a new character. I use this to ban things like vore and unbirthing since I don't see any appeal into them while keeping stuff like males and furries since while I'm not much into guys, banning them from my game would end up culling much content, plus I like getting into side quest where I can help people. Another thing to note with the game is that stat checks and combat itself feels like a tabletop game in that it's all dice rolls, it even shows when you have your turn in attacking and dodging attacks and seeing if you're able to move a vending machine to get a stuck candy bar with your strength at 26 giving you +3 to the strength check to get free food.

The games main story isn't fleshed out much beyond two acts and once you finish act two, there isn't really big bad end boss that really challenges your skill. The most I fought in a main story boss was someone that didn't like me betraying his idea of making the world become full of sex-obsessed furries and while he, through what I did previously, tried to make himself a hulking beast, my character was able to beat the boss without breaking a sweat and the guy I played as was just a normal as hell human armed with a stolen sword from a museum and wearing padded armor made by a blacksmith (a great irony since the main draw of the game is making your character transform into whatever there is but screw it, I wanna be a normal humie that shows the furries and mutants why you don't mess with this one normal looking man). Then again, a final boss for a side quest gave my character a bigger challenge but that final boss was a demon prince who I could either enslave or kill which ended with the latter because I'm hearing metal music and one doesn't mess with humanity. Speaking of a side quest, in place of the main quest are a lot of side quest that range from finding some new people to join your bunker to meeting other npcs with their own story arc. Both of them can offer endings that would feel a bit like Fallout in telling you what happened to a survivor you saved from rapey demons or what became of a group of furries you helped in another area. Not every NPC gets an ending however even if they seem important. One example was becoming the mate of a butterfly woman and fathering her kids. Unless I transformed into a similar state as her, there's no ending with her as a normal human or as some furry. Moving over to smut since that's why the game has a thread on this site, smut is all text-based. Some characters will only have an option of sex or no sex. Others may have different options of sex or no sex. And then there's certain outcomes you have in side quest that can determine whether you'll fuck a specific NPC at all or if you get certain sex options with them.

Now the downsides to the game is that the beginning itself is brutal even though it makes sense that you're starting off as a normal human. Outside of huskies and latex foxes, most enemies will wipe the floor with you whether it's a human spartan with his dick out or a hawk man that manages to avoid your attacks while beating you up and fondling your crotch. Another downside is that your character isn't fully flexible in what you would want them into. Like CoC, your character is at the whims of whoever wrote the scenes which means that if you aren't into futas, too bad. Your character likely get aroused watching a big dick horse lady jerk herself off though in this case, one could justify it with nanomachines messing with everyone (it's more or less why the area you once lived in is now a furry convention as imagined by 4Chan anons in the 2000's) that according to one side quest, it apparently led to a lot of death (something which along with one area in the game makes me feel like this became a subtle horror game when considering how fucked up things may of gotten beyond a furry sex-pest outbreak) as well which on the contrary, you won't find a dead person outside of one event and from the previously mentioned Demon Prince who you could kill instead of enslave. Previously mentioning the sex in the game to be text-based, that means you'll pretty much have to let your imagination run wild. If that isn't a thing for you, then it's a con. Otherwise, the writing itself isn't hard to visualize in how your character is either getting rammed by a hulking orc or how your character is ramming into the womb of a horse woman. And speaking of horse woman, it reminds me of another con: not everything has sex based victories for the player. If you were a furry with a taste for equines, you likely will have to let yourself get beaten by horsewomen or submit to them to have sex with them. Otherwise beating them just has them running off and cursing your name even if your lust has reached a high point. I don't know how many enemies in this game are similar to the horsewomen in that you can't fuck them after winning a fight but it's a con to greatly consider. One last thing to note with text-based smut is that the writing could be all over the place for anyone that pays attention to tone. For me it's not tone so much as what character I'm trying to play as in a run. Another thing to note in the game is the art. Recently, the devs have been getting updated art for certain npc's and enemies which are good quality but the old versions and some that have yet to be updated aren't as nice looking in my opinion. In fact, I find them unarousing, even if I already found something like a sapient teddy bear or a multiple breasted herm fox the complete opposite of sexy regardless of the art style but hey, beating them gets me experience and thankfully without needing a certain perk, my character doesn't need said perk to not have sex with a sapient plushy or a rapey furry with a huge dick. Either way though, it's an opinion based one and to each their own in which artwork or artstyle they like though one can simply toggle it off if it doesn't appeal to them. That said, the biggest con is that the game runs on an engine that's lagging behind as more stuff is added and the engine itself is likely outdated. Thankfully the devs are porting the game onto another engine that should be able to run but it'll be a while before we get anything out of it since they're still working on it. If you're into furries at the very least or playing as a human going against furries and other mutants like viking and spartans (it's nanomachines, son. Don't ask, they don't say where the nanomachines come from as far as I remember), then I recommend playing this game. If you wanted something that legit feels like a sort of RPG with the dice rolls and having numerous endings, I greatly recommend it. It without a doubt reminds me of old school Fallout games in having the multiple endings even though many are locked behind being a bad ending or requiring you to have a certain form which I go against since I prefer fighting in the puny miserable human body.

All this said, the amount of content in the game is bound to eat up time and leave one with a satisfied experience.

Edit: one thing worth noting as either a pro or con is that the game isn't exactly like Lilith's Throne or Corruption of Champions in terms of movement. To move, you either click on hyper links or type in the direction you want to go so it's also a text-based adventure game as well. Thankfully, it's easy to learn and if you pay attention to the name of enemies and events, you can type "hunt" and find what you with a certain chance of getting it.

[Review of 2022-02-06 as of 2/17/2022]

Well, this is interesting. Corruption of Champions is rumored to have started existence sometime around January of 2011. Flexible Survival's blog has its oldest entries dating back to... 2011.

Great minds think alike, eh? I'm not familiar enough with the history of these two games to comment on which came first and to what extent they influenced one another, but these two games are very similar in some important ways. Both are games dedicated to corruption and transformation in dystopian/dysfunctional worlds. Both have a heavy furry presence, with Flexible Survival practically focused on it. Both have survival systems, both have a degree of gender fluidity as a mechanic, and both are free to play. Most importantly, both of them are almost completely text based, with only the occasional, minor forays into artwork.

Now, I mostly point this out because if you enjoy Corruption of Champions or Trials in Tainted Space, then you will probably enjoy this. It's UI is a bit clunkier, relying on MUD-style text inputs or displayed hyperlinks in order to operate, but it's functional enough if you're looking for some new fap material in a similar vein to Fenoxo or Savin's work.

Combat, leveling, and survival are tougher in Flexible Survival than in CoC or TiTS. You'll enjoy life a slight bit more if you make yourself willing to slow down and read a bit from the Wiki or initial instructions, so that the survival elements don't kick your head in four days into your game. It's not necessarily hard, but there's more fights you should probably run away from at the start.

Actually, just starting the game might be a bit of a learning curve. Your best option is to download the .msi file from the developer's blog for singleplayer (or multiplayer... by the way, it's multiplayer?) and to choose an installation location. The .RAR file linked in the top post, as of this update, appears to only contain the .gblorb update file and not the rest of the files necessary to run the game. Seems like a silly oversight, but whatever, give the dev some site traffic.

Personally, the extra clunkiness of using GIT and MUD style inputs is not something I'm a fan of using, and I have zero interest in playing porn games as multiplayer experiences, but this is competently built and written. It might really suit all of your oddly specific desires.

I'd say give this one a shot.

game has a dedicated update .. just wish the user interface and WIKI was more updated for off line gaming vs online gaming. Alot of updates and new stuff found and a cg pack progression would be nice to see.
-Megalink if possible

If you don't like text based games or git this is a pass. There's mostly no scene art just pics of the characters, the art is also mostly good but there's some that is just really poor, however, most scenes are well written and this is updated pretty regularly with new or updated art and new stuff.

That aside there is a LOT of content here with a bunch of variety that can be turned off if you're not into something, it was a massive surprise just how much is here. There are a megafuckton of encounters ranging from human, to anthro huskies, lizard girls and hyenas (herm) to the mythological such as amazons (herm), naiad, centaurs, dragons, succubi, demons to crazy shit like xenomorphs and latex monsters and a lot more. You also get some characters to join you at your base or follow you as an ally. There's storylines out in the city as well but few seem to be finished yet.

The player can fuck or transform into almost any of them (there's options to have restrictions so no dick or vagina transformations for example). Which gives different content. Then there's different scenes depending on if you win or lose a fight, are dominant or submissive have the kinky trait are male, female, trans or herm etc. You can also impregnate or become pregnant.

My biggest complaints are some of the art such as Stella's is really bad, some things are a little obtuse on what to do, a lot of quests aren't finished and I wish there was more content like becoming the Jackal or Nightmare in the game as that stuff is great.

Basically there is a lot here, well worth giving a try. I've ended up enjoying this a lot.

edit: 10.2022
This game is so huge... there are hundreds opponents and I think even more character's in this Game. All with there own unique explicit stuff/ story and so on...
Some of the Quests/ Events/ Storylines are also rly nice written but normally the goal is just nasty (not in a bad way).

If you like furry-stuff that leads quickly to the "goal", you are right here but there is also some stuff you have to 'work' for...

Better use multiple saves or you may get some problems with permanent changes of your body that are sometimes not so obvious at the beginning. The Wiki is also some kind of a must-use... but even there you will not find all the answers...
Also there are some rare ends that corrupt all you saves!
So better export your game-progress some times and copy all of it 2 a different file...

pros:
+much hot content (even after hundreds of hours playtime I still find new stuff)
+interesting interaction's with/ and between all the NPCs you can bring to your hideout
+'pet/companion-system'
+some good artworks
+all the kinks you can think of
+You can also ban some stuff from the game but sometimes this also banns stuff you maybe like after banned story-parts. So better just ignore content you don't enjoy and check what comes after that...

cons:
-some of the content is unfinished
-some artworks are old and not this good

I've played it off and on , and lost interest. Its a hodgepodge of niche fetishes and half-finished content.

I don't expect universal appeal, but they rarely fully implement the content they've advertised and with how long the project has run there are tons of loose ends with extreme variations in quality and art. It's pretty common to find that the content you're invested in has ended abruptly.

It can be a fun puzzle, but the consistent inconsistency gets old, made worse by odd mechanics and an often out of date wiki.

this is text basesd, and it's controls are a little odd. but if you don't mind text based game it's pretty extensive. heavy focus on mutation to look like the various things you have sex with, though there is a gameplay option that allows you to stay human. a decent focus on pregnancy as well, you likely will get pregnant if female (or even if male if you do a certain side quest), and there are many female npcs you can impregnate as well.