Under Your Spell

In Under Your Spell, players embark on their journey to the mysterious magic academy, Tír na nÓg. Under the influence of an ancient spell, they'll spark romances with a host of beautiful women while also facing academic pressures. Players will face numerous challenges alongside the girls, honing their skills through classes and extracurricular activities while enjoying the wonders of college life and unlocking adult scenes. The game is constantly being updated, with more beautiful girls, erotic plots, magic classes, and activities to come. Download the game and enjoy the fun!

Story:

"Under Your Spell" is an immersive text-based magic school and dating simulator, drawing inspiration from beloved games like True Love 95 and Persona 4. As the protagonist, you'll juggle the challenges of school life while navigating the complexities of romance and participating in the highly anticipated "Cup of Cathal"

Step into the enchanting world of Tír na nÓg, the most prestigious magic school in Ireland! For five years, you’ve navigated the halls without achieving academic or athletic stardom—and you’ve yet to find that special someone. But everything changes when your childhood friend Eric proposes a daring plan: use an ancient spell to attract the girlfriends you’ve always dreamed of.

However, be warned—ancient magic is as powerful as it is fickle. While the spell may grant you a girlfriend, it comes with a catch: you must honor your part of the bargain. With the spell subtly influencing this year's school events, it’s up to you to seize the opportunity!

Features:

Experience a blend of time management and relationship-building as you juggle classes, training, and social interactions.

Engage in various mini-games and challenges during the "Cup of Cathal," enhancing your skills and reputation in the school.

Customize your character’s attributes and appearance, allowing for a personalized journey as you pursue romance and adventure.

A rich narrative influenced by beloved anime and literature, providing depth to character interactions and storylines.

Multiple endings based on the choices you make, ensuring replayability and different experiences each time.

A diverse cast of characters, each with unique backgrounds and stories, inviting you to explore various romantic possibilities.

Developer Notes:

In my previous week's devblog I was pretty proud of myself. Wrote the intro to the second Trial and all. Not a big piece of narrative, but an important one, that allowed me to move to the meatier part of the Trial. But that was before I remembered that I actually wanted to add the girls coming to give you a little pep talk before the Trial. And that threw a wrench in the works. Of course, I could just wave these things off and omit these visits, but I really felt that by this point the player should have at least one or two girls close enough, so that they would expect one of them to want to visit the MC before the big event. So, I decided that I would return to the Trial's intro and add in the girls' visits.

This opened a whole other can of worms though - deciding on which of the girls will have to visit the player. Of course, the idea of all eligible girls coming to wish the player good luck was out of the question. Firstly, because it would look really strange, funny, but strange, if a line of girls were to just form and the player would have to listen to each one of them in turn. Secondly, because it would just inflate the intro way too much. Even if each event was short by itself. So now I had to decide on how to choose the girl to visit. The most straightforward solution would be to just pick a random girl from the pool of girls whose storylines have passed a certain threshold. That would not be ideal though, since the player might have progressed one of the girls' stories more, and would understandably expect to see that girl.

The next obvious solution would be to just have the girl with the highest storyline progress come to say hi. That idea had a pitfall of its own. Even though the girls all have the same number of events, not all of the relationships progress at the same pace, and even if they do, not all of the girls would be likely to show their affection (not talking about anyone in particular. cough Aisling). And some relationships are not progressing linearly, for example, Gwen is mad at you after her fifth event.

So after some consideration, and weighing a couple of other options I ended up adding another value in the game that would reflect a girl's willingness to visit you before the Trial and choose the visitor based on that.

After that I still needed to both edit the intro to the Trial that I have already written to fit in the visits and write the visits themselves (which I did a couple). I will finish the rest of the visit and move to the Trial proper then. I also hope to start writing Violet's sixth story even this week, since she was chosen by our supporters as our focus. I will also dedicate some time to our runner-ups - Elizabeth and Lily, but I am not sure if they will get their sixth even in the next update or not.

Also last week Shady Two, getting a bit of rest from drawing girls' underwear for the last update, finally finished the sprite for Ryan O'Neil, so I added that into the game two, and you will be able to finally put a face to the guy. And also, Gwen would someone to actually talk to in her fourth event.

Player Comments:

So one thing I want to get out of the way is that this game is more of an Dating Simulator & Life/School sim rather than your standard porn game. And the lack of tags should indicate that. The devs have been open about, that this isn't the kind of game you are going to open up and be able to get some wank material in a few clicks.As of version 0.2.3 there is one NSFW scene in the game which has incomplete uncoloured art but still solid, which involves the player peeping on the two students engaging in cunnilingus in the bath. This is all of the sexual content in the game at present as none of the girls currently in the game stories have have progressed far enough. There is a few "Ecchi" scenes of some pantyshots and hard nipples but nothing that's gonna make you want to Jackhammer Slammer.

This sort of guide-less old-school dating sim is not for me. You get told the premise: you have to find a girlfriend within six months; and briefly introduced to two possible LIs. Then you're kicked straight into Day 1 and asked to just start going to classes and doing activities without even the barest hint of guidance like what stats to focus on for a particular girl or if you want to prepare for the wizard tournament or... anything.This type of game worked better in the 90s when you'd buy one game every four months. In 2024, where everyone has unplayed games languishing in their Steam libraries, it's hard to justify playing and replaying and tinkering with a dating sim to try to find all the scenes and routes.If you're into games like Story of Seasons or Rune Factory, you might have more patience for these type of games and enjoy this. The art is great and the UI is very clean. But I'll wait until there's a walkthrough available.

The game is in early stages and a lot of the art and place settings aren’t in yet. If you’re playing for titty this game’s development is way too early for that.it’s a great display of concept as it is rn however and I look forward to playing it again when it’s more developed and closer to completion.

Final words:

Under Your Spell offers a captivating blend of interactive storytelling, character customization, relationship building, and mysterious puzzles, making it a must-play for fans of romance and fantasy genres. With engaging gameplay and multiple story paths to explore, this game promises hours of immersive entertainment as you strive to find love and unravel the secrets of Tír na nÓg. Download now and embark on a magical journey filled with romance and adventure.