Future Fragments sends you into a threatening future to recover pieces of a powerful weapon and defend your kingdom. This adults-only action-adventure platformer combines mix-and-match powers, levels built around distinct mechanics, and an optional branching story. In the future, the World Organization for Regulation of the Masses, or WORM, has outlawed sex to increase productivity.
You play Talia, a serious, by-the-book, 21-year-old long-range specialist; her fellow magician Faye is a 22-year-old short-range specialist with an arrogant, acerbic streak. Their mission begins in 1000 AD, after the king fails to defend his kingdom against an enemy alliance. He opens a portal to 3000 AD to reach the dormant weapon fragments, promising that whichever magician brings back the most will become his right-hand woman. Both women have motives of their own, complicating an assignment that already comes with a promotion attached.
The Hub Map
A Hub Map lets you choose the order in which you complete maps. The game spans 5 expansive stages with secrets to find and significantly different aesthetics. Each level has its own mechanics and bosses with multiple attacks and phases. Completing each boss grants new movement abilities and attacks, expanding your options as you progress.
Mix those boss abilities with powerups to navigate expansive levels and handle a range of enemies. The developer advertises 50+ powerups, with up to three combined at a time. The advertised enemy roster includes 20+ enemies and 7 bosses. Dynamic music changes in real time based on the events happening around you.
Choices and Close Encounters
Optional cutscenes give you choices that affect the story, while a morality system shapes your character’s personality. The store description advertises 21+ distinct endings, and optional databanks offer more worldbuilding for anyone who wants to investigate the setting. The store description also advertises 3,000+ optional branching story variants alongside 100+ sex scenes. The developer’s itch.io page gives a different narrative count: 300+ optional interactive cutscenes with 4,000+ variants.
Sex and relationships are woven into this desolate future’s story, with hand-animated adult scenes involving encounters with friends and foes. The content notice describes consensual and non-consensual sex, bondage, self-aware aliens and humanoids that can potentially have sex with the protagonist, full nudity, and mild cartoon violence. All characters in Future Fragments are identified as 18+.
Fully remappable controls accompany an advertised 40+ hours of professional English voicework across 200+ NPCs and an 8+ hour soundtrack. Future Fragments was developed by The Future Fragments Team and published by Taboo Toad, Shady Corner Games, and Lewdonymous.
Availability
It released for Windows on February 22, 2024. The regular US price was $19.99 at the time of research. The developer’s itch.io page labels its current build a “soft launch” and warns that missing content or malfunctioning features may occur while content is finalized and bugs are fixed.
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Images: © The Future Fragments Team / Taboo Toad / Shady Corner Games / Lewdonymous
