History VideoGame / Changed

* HiveMind: The two most common types of Transfurs in the ruined lab -- the black and white latex creatures -- each have their hiveminds. Both have transformation sequences where we see see the narrated takeover of the player character's thoughts by the black or white group intelligence, and we even get to see the entity (a massive, and presumably sentient masked dragon) that commands the black latex hivemind.

* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Or, well, [[TheAssimilator "transfur" you]]. And we really do mean ''everything'', by the way. There are dozens of enemies that actively chase you, puddles of white latex on the ground or [[CeilingClingEnemies the ceiling]] that act as environmental hazards, and inspectable objects that actually trigger game-over cutscenes. This even gets taken to new levels in Special Edition, where several objects you can harmlessly interact with and are necessary for game progression turn out to be dormant mimics that can spring to life if you screw up. Most notably including ''the player character's clothes''.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Almost every possible game-over has an unique animation. Some even have slideshow-like cutscenes or special screens. After the Special Edition re-release, several game-overs have been given such special screens on top of the unique animations they already had. All of these animations, screens, slideshows, and even some extra content can be viewed in the game's playable credits.

* BlobMonster: Most of the Transfurs are like this, being sentient, animal-shaped masses of latex or other slimy materials, giving them a malleable property that allows them to either convert others into more of their kind or assimilate them into host bodies for themselves, which increases their lifespan.

* LossOfIdentity: Many of the game-overs do this to your character, and this is also heavily implied to have been the fate of all the other scientists and human subjects in the ruined, transfur-infested labs the game takes place in. Among the scientists, the only exception to this fate was Dr. K, who injected himself with a serum specifically designed allow him to keep his sanity after his transformation.

* LossOfIdentity: Many of the game-overs have your character go through are this, and this is also heavily implied to have been the fate of all the other scientists and human subjects in the ruined, transfur-infested labs the game takes place in. Among the scientists, the only exception to this fate was Dr. K, who injected himself with a serum specifically designed allow him to keep his sanity after his transformation.

* IdentityDeath: Many of the game-overs have your character go through are this, and this is also heavily implied to have been the fate of all the other scientists and human subjects in the ruined, transfur-infested labs the game takes place in. Among the scientists, the only exception to this fate was Dr. K, who injected himself with a serum specifically designed allow him to keep his sanity after his transformation.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Basically every "death" in the game results in you getting [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]], and basically all of these transformations brainwash the player character in some way. This can range from a simple LotusEaterMachine effect to the [[IdentityDeath complete replacement of your memories and personalty]] with those of whatever creature that assimilated you.

* BalefulPolymorph: Lin get's turned into numerous different species depending on what captures him with varying levels of brainwashing added in.

* BlobMonster: Most of the Transfurs are like this, being sentient, animal-shaped masses of latex or other slimy materials, giving them a malleable property that allows them to assimilate potential hosts.

* CrazyPrepared: The Lab has ''several'' measures to prevent the escape of potentially infected human subjects [[spoiler: such as Lin]]. Especially in the Special Edition re-release, where it's revealed even the ''clothes'' the subjects wear are a countermeasure for escape, as they're actually dormant latex creatures that can be reactivated with special red lasers.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The lab you wake up in was trying to research a cure for the virus by studying latex creatures, which eventually broke out and assimilated all scientists except Dr. K, who transformed himself ahead of them with a serum that would allow him to maintain his mind. This wound up working in favor of their original goal, though, since the lab was the last place on Earth where the virus could be found, and the spread of latex creatures destroyed most of it.

** [[spoiler:Betrayal: If your relationship with Puro is low, after reaching a certain room, Puro will give up hope of escaping the building alive, as without a host, he doesn't have long to live, and doubts Lin can survive with the world outside devastated. Hoping to spare Lin and himself from dying ignoble and lonely deaths, he opts to "transfur" Lin personally, trapping him in a hallway with no escape. If played on Easy mode, Puro fully assimilates Lin into himself. On Normal difficulty, he instead turns Lin into a blue-eyed version of himself while still maintaining his identity.]]

* AuthorAppeal: DragonSnow has a latex fetish, and many game-over stills involve both latex assimilation, and in some cases the Transfurs actively humping Lin.

* AssimilationPlot: This is pretty much the core concept of the game. All enemies in this game attempt to turn you into one of them through various means, either through absorption or such, and come with varying levels of [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody mental alterations.]]

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: At an early point in the game, Lin inexplicably faints and blacks out for a while. New players might just simply think of it as fainting from stress after having to escape numerous Transfurs and traps. After the revelation of the virus and the implications of the "I Choose to Leave" ending, this event gains a brand new meaning.]]

''Changed'' is a AdventureGame developed and produced by [=DragonShow=] for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. It was released on April 4, 2018.

** [[spoiler: Captured- Puro is destroyed and Lin is forcibly changed and put under mind control by Doctor K.

** [[spoiler:Betrayal: If your relationship with Puro is low, after reaching a certain room, Puro will give up hope of escaping the building alive, as without a host, he doesn't have long to live, and doubts Lin can survive with the world outside devastated. Hoping to spare Lin and himself from dying ignoble and lonely deaths, he opts to "transfur" Lin personally, trapping him in a hallway with no escape. If played on Easy mode, Puro fully assimilates Lin into himself. On other difficulties, he instead turns Lin into a blue-eyed version of himself while still maintaining his identity.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Whenever it's not a downright DownerEnding, Lin is forced to make some sort of sacrifice regardless. [[spoiler:The True Ending is the only ending having any sense of happiness to it, and even then, Lin has to give up looking like a human in order to make it happen, and him and Puro are still mostly alone in the ruins of the world while the rest of humanity is in hiding.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Early in the game, Lin encounters a giant masked dragon that seems to lead the black latex Transfurs. After showing his determination to survive and escape as himself, the large dragon seems to silently acknowledge his resolve and allows him to leave. In addition, the rest of the black latex no longer hunt him even as he walks in plain sight down a hall filled with them. When he suddenly faints, he wakes up in a new room safe and sound, with the implication that it was the black latex Transfurs that carried him to safety. [[spoiler: later in the game, Puro senses a territory near the exit of both white and black latex. Although he worries he might have to fight his own kind, no actual black latex show up in their area, implying the giant dragon ordered all black latex to leave Lin be.]]

** [[spoiler:Captured: If you make it past the previously-mentioned point above, but fail to improve your relationship with Puro more, Doctor K will end up destroying Puro, leaving him as just a puddle of black goo with a broken mask. Devastated by his death, Lin attempts to attack Doctor K with a pair of shears, but is quickly subdued. He is then forcefully "transfurred" into a white wolf and hypnotized with drug injections to make him obedient so that he won't spread the virus to the outside world. Doctor K mentions that a crystal formed Puro's broken mask, implying he might reform, but without his memories of Lin.]]
** [[spoiler:I Choose to Stay: If Puro's relationship is high enough, instead of being destroyed, Puro will subdue Doctor K, giving both him and Lin a chance to escape. As they finally reach the exit of the laboratory, Doctor K reappears and desperately pleads for Lin not to leave, offering him safety if he promises to not go outside. If Lin accepts, a hurt Puro respects his choice, but goes on his own to the outside world for whatever little time he has left. The game ends with Lin apologizing to Puro for his selfish choice to put humanity first over their friendship.]]

** [[spoiler:Can't decide: A third hidden option that's presented during the final choice. If the choice is backed out of (via esc key), Doctor K comes up with an alternate solution: have Lin undergo the same transfurmation process Doctor K went through, allowing his new form to be treated of the virus, while allowing him to maintain his sense of self at the cost of his human form. After some thought, Lin agrees to the treatment, with Puro watching over him carefully. After the treatment is done, Lin has become a white wolf like Doctor K, while Puro has been given an "artificial host" to allow him to live longer. Free to go, the pair go to the same spot from the "I Choose to Leave" ending and watch the sunrise together, with a sense of renewed hope of living in the recovering world.]]

** [[spoiler: The "I Choose to Leave" ending, this is true for Lin as well. As Doctor K suspected, he was indeed carrying the virus that devastated the world inside of him, and by the ending, he finally perishes from it just hours after escaping from the building.]]

** [[spoiler:Can't decide: A third hidden option that's presented during the final choice. If the choice is backed out of, Doctor K comes up with an alternate solution: have Lin undergo the same transfurmation process Doctor K went through, allowing his new form to be treated of the virus, while allowing him to maintain his sense of self at the cost of his human form. After some thought, Lin agrees to the treatment, with Puro watching over him carefully. After the treatment is done, Lin has become a white wolf like Doctor K, while Puro has been given an "artificial host" to allow him to live longer. Free to go, the pair go to the same spot from the "I Choose to Leave" ending and watch the sunrise together, with a sense of renewed hope of living in the recovering world.]]

** [[spoiler: The "I Choose to Leave" ending, this is true for Lin as well. As Doctor K suspected, he was indeed carrying the virus that devastated the world inside of him, and by the ending, he finally perishes from it just moments after escaping from the building.]]

''Changed'' is a AdventureGame developed and produced by DragonShow for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. It was released on April 4, 2018.

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* Adorkable: Puro dotes on Lin quite a bit, being fond of humans after spending an unknown amount of time reading about them. His awkward attempts to help Lin escape and his interactions with Lin help make him quite endearing both to Lin and the player.

** [[spoiler: The "I Choose to Leave" ending, this is true for Lin as well. As Doctor K suspected, he was indeed carrying the virus that devastated the world inside of him, and by the ending, he finally perishes from it just moments after escaping from the building.]]

** [[spoiler:I Choose to Leave: If Lin chooses to leave, Doctor K reluctantly allows both of them to leave, unable to do anything else to keep them from going. After a while of walking, Lin starts to feel both exhausted and sick, and the pair rest on a rock to look at the sunset. As Lin falls asleep, Puro confides how he finally got the see the outside world, though his nature makes it hard to see static objects around him. Lin remains unresponsive to Puro's words as they watch the sunset. The achievement earned from this ending implies that in the end Lin succumbed and perished from the virus he had been carrying.]]
** [[spoiler:Can't decide: A third hidden option that's presented during the final choice. If the choice is backed out of, Doctor K comes up with an alternate solution: have Lin undergo the same transfurmation process Doctor K went through, allowing his new form to be treated of the virus, while allowing him to maintain his sense of self at the cost of his human form. After some thought, Lin agrees to the treatment, with Puro watching over him carefully. After the treatment is done, Lin has become a white wolf like Doctor K, while Puro has been given an "artificial host" to allow him to live longer. Free to go, the pair go to the same spot from the "I Choose to Leave" ending and watch the sunset together, with a sense of renewed hope of living in the recovering world.]]

* MultipleEndings: The game has a total of 5 different endings that depend on actions taking up to the climax of the game and what choice you make at the end.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Puro, being a black latex, can only survive on his own while inside the lab building. Otherwise, like the other Transfurs, he needs a human host to extend his lifespan. In the Betrayal ending, he caves in to his desire to survive and forcibly makes Lin his host. In the Can't Decide ending, Doctor K instead provided an artificial host, allowing him to live without having to consume a human.]]

* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Nearly ''everything'' in the lab can result in a transformation, and only trail-and-error will inform you which objects are safe and which ones aren't. There's even a nasty enemy that ''disguises itself as a save point''.

* AssimilationPlot: This is pretty much the core concept of the game. All enemies in this game attempt to turn you into one of them through various means, either through absorption or such, and come with varying levels of [[MindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody mental alterations.]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[Spoiler:Doctor K reveals that the world was devastated by a virus, forcing humanity to go into cryo-stasis in attempts to wait for it to die out, leaving the world in ruins in their absence, while those who remained active were either assimilated by the "Transfurs" or, in Doctor K's case, were transfurred willingly to immunize themselves to the virus.]]

** [[Spoiler:Betrayal: If your relationship with Puro is low, after reaching a certain room, Puro will give up hope of escaping the building alive, as without a host, he doesn't have long to live, and doubts Lin can survive with the world outside devastated. Hoping to spare Lin and himself from dying ignoble and lonely deaths, he opts to "transfur" Lin personally, trapping him in a hallway with no escape. If played on Easy mode, Puro fully assimilates Lin into himself. On other difficulties, he instead turns Lin into a blue-eyed version of himself while still maintaining his identity.]]
** [[Spoiler:Captured: If you make it past the previously-mentioned point above, but fail to improve your relationship with Puro more, Doctor K will end up destroying Puro, leaving him as just a puddle of black goo with a broken mask. Devastated by his death, Lin attempts to attack Doctor K with a pair of shears, but is quickly subdued. He is then forcefully "transfurred" into a white wolf and hypnotized with drug injections to make him obedient so that he won't spread the virus to the outside world. Doctor K mentions that a crystal formed Puro's broken mask, implying he might reform, but without his memories of Lin.]]
** [[Spoiler:I Choose to Stay: If Puro's relationship is high enough, instead of being destroyed, Puro will subdue Doctor K, giving both him and Lin a chance to escape. As they finally reach the exit of the laboratory, Doctor K reappears and desperately pleads for Lin not to leave, offering him safety if he promises to not go outside. If Lin accepts, a hurt Puro respects his choice, but goes on his own to the outside world for whatever little time he has left. The game ends with Lin apologizing to Puro for his selfish choice to put humanity first over their friendship.]]
** [[Spoiler:I Choose to Leave: If Lin chooses to leave, Doctor K reluctantly allows both of them to leave, unable to do anything else to keep them from going. After a while of walking, Lin starts to feel both exhausted and sick, and the pair rest on a rock to look at the sunset. As Lin falls asleep, Puro confides how he finally got the see the outside world, though his nature makes it hard to see static objects around him. Lin remains unresponsive to Puro's words as they watch the sunset. The achievement earned from this ending implies that in the end Lin succumbed and perished from the virus he had been carrying.]]
** [[Spoiler:Can't decide: A third hidden option that's presented during the final choice. If the choice is backed out of, Doctor K comes up with an alternate solution: have Lin undergo the same transfurmation process Doctor K went through, allowing his new form to be treated of the virus, while allowing him to maintain his sense of self at the cost of his human form. After some thought, Lin agrees to the treatment, with Puro watching over him carefully. After the treatment is done, Lin has become a white wolf like Doctor K, while Puro has been given an "artificial host" to allow him to live longer. Free to go, the pair go to the same spot from the "I Choose to Leave" ending and watch the sunset together, with a sense of renewed hope of living in the recovering world.]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[Spoiler: Doctor K reveals that the world was devastated by a virus, forcing humanity to go into cryo-stasis in attempts to wait for it to die out, leaving the world in ruins in their absence, while those who remained active were either assimilated by the "Transfurs" or, in Doctor K's case, were transfurred willingly to immunize themselves to the virus.]]

** [[Spoiler: Betrayal: If your relationship with Puro is low, after reaching a certain room, Puro will give up hope of escaping the building alive, as without a host, he doesn't have long to live, and doubts Lin can survive with the world outside devastated. Hoping to spare Lin and himself from dying ignoble and lonely deaths, he opts to "transfur" Lin personally, trapping him in a hallway with no escape. If played on Easy mode, Puro fully assimilates Lin into himself. On other difficulties, he instead turns Lin into a blue-eyed version of himself while still maintaining his identity.]]
** [[Spoiler: Captured: If you make it past the previously-mentioned point above, but fail to improve your relationship with Puro more, Doctor K will end up destroying Puro, leaving him as just a puddle of black goo with a broken mask. Devastated by his death, Lin attempts to attack Doctor K with a pair of shears, but is quickly subdued. He is then forcefully "transfurred" into a white wolf and hypnotized with drug injections to make him obedient so that he won't spread the virus to the outside world. Doctor K mentions that a crystal formed Puro's broken mask, implying he might reform, but without his memories of Lin.]]
** [[Spoiler: I Choose to Stay: If Puro's relationship is high enough, instead of being destroyed, Puro will subdue Doctor K, giving both him and Lin a chance to escape. As they finally reach the exit of the laboratory, Doctor K reappears and desperately pleads for Lin not to leave, offering him safety if he promises to not go outside. If Lin accepts, a hurt Puro respects his choice, but goes on his own to the outside world for whatever little time he has left. The game ends with Lin apologizing to Puro for his selfish choice to put humanity first over their friendship.]]
** [[Spoiler: I Choose to Leave: If Lin chooses to leave, Doctor K reluctantly allows both of them to leave, unable to do anything else to keep them from going. After a while of walking, Lin starts to feel both exhausted and sick, and the pair rest on a rock to look at the sunset. As Lin falls asleep, Puro confides how he finally got the see the outside world, though his nature makes it hard to see static objects around him. Lin remains unresponsive to Puro's words as they watch the sunset. The achievement earned from this ending implies that in the end Lin succumbed and perished from the virus he had been carrying.]]
** [[Spoiler: Can't decide: A third hidden option that's presented during the final choice. If the choice is backed out of, Doctor K comes up with an alternate solution: have Lin undergo the same transfurmation process Doctor K went through, allowing his new form to be treated of the virus, while allowing him to maintain his sense of self at the cost of his human form. After some thought, Lin agrees to the treatment, with Puro watching over him carefully. After the treatment is done, Lin has become a white wolf like Doctor K, while Puro has been given an "artificial host" to allow him to live longer. Free to go, the pair go to the same spot from the "I Choose to Leave" ending and watch the sunset together, with a sense of renewed hope of living in the recovering world.]]