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- Renders: beautiful, up close, even gorgeous.
- Animations: simple, clean, smooth, nicely done.
- Story: integral part of the game, goes hand in hand with the adult content.
- Choices: many choices, with varied consequences.
- Length: over 20 hours without using cheats.
- Gallery: available on the computer, and each girl has her unique scenes based on location.
- Soundtracks: a variety of tracks, fitting to the scenes.
- Achievements: available and working perfectly. Note, 1 achievement is for a later content update.

The story of Shattered Minds picks up where the previous game of the developer ends; with the world discovering the existence of superhumans. Our main character, a nonchalant college student, rents a room from a gorgeous landlady Sofia. However he isn't the only tennant, as Chloe, a gorgeous aspiring athlete is also renting space from Sofia and goes to the same college as the MC. Like most college students, the protagonist isn't too focused on his future and rather plays games, spends time with his best friend Bill, and admires his crush Scarlett from a distance. It's when we finally get the courage to walk up to Scarlett and start a conversation that a football player named Kobe puts us in our place, as far as almost unleashing a beatdown which in turn awakens the dormant power of mind control within us.
At this point we learn that superhumans exist in the world, and we are one of them. With a trusted best friend Bill, we begin to experiment with our mind control powers and learn that it's not so simple to influence one's mind. First it all goes well with basic pranks on some students, and then it goes horribly wrong when attempting it on our crush Scarlett. The MC wakes up in his room having failed to control the mind of Scarlett, and learns that his power takes the form of a woman called Ava in his head! It is with the help and guidance of Ava that we fully come to comprehend the power of our mind. Which is capable and not limited to: mind control, mind transfer, mass manipulation and more! However, it's not that simple to influence someone's mind. We first must understand them, gain their trust and exploit their weaknesses, only then can we manipulate and overwrite them. Well what better way to learn than to practice on the entire town of women in order to build a personal harem?! All while getting stronger and delving further into the mystery that is our power and Ava herself.
Thus the MC's journey of growing his power, and exerting his influence begins. With a wide variety of women available. From a new student named Sarah, to his roommate Chloe, the lovely landlady Sofia, his teacher Eleanor, the cheerleader and crush Scarlett, and much, much more! The developer was not joking when he said you will get to "shape destinies and indulge in your desires"!

The gameplay is your standard sandbox AVN, with a rather unique feature called: parallax effect which can be toggled on/off. The game has a world map with major locations: home, college, coffee shop, day care, gym, beach, park, police station and shopping mall. These are not the only locations that you will encounter, as others unlock during the story and different quests. With that we also have the time of day cycle: morning, afternoon and evening, with different events taking place depending on the time of day. Speaking of days, we have all 7 days of the week, as characters have jobs, weekends off and different events require not just a time of day, but also a specific day of the week. As luck would have it, we have our trusted smartphone with a variety of apps to help us navigate this world.
Apps such as: a quest log where you can track quests, inventory for items you obtain through your gameplay, a contacts list for the characters you meet and later add to your harem, nilery which is this game's version of amazon, wallpapers that you can customize your phone with, achievements to keep track of, find me app that helps you find out where a character is at different times of day, my powers app that helps upgrade your abilities, reports app that keeps track of different types of income, real estate which tracks the properties on the market you can buy, cheats app rather self explanatory, and finally we have messenger to text our friends, and money app to keep track of our funds! Phew with that out of the way, the gameplay is not that difficult. You have a few minigames present to help you earn experience and money. A cognitive minigame where you remember the color patterns and repeat them. A run of the mill blackjack to gamble money, a burger minigame where you build a burger as the one that clients want, and a washing machine minigame where you match two identical pieces of laundry. Don't be afraid, all minigames can be skipped! Your quests earn you experience that is then used to upgrade your power in three major ways: visceral, cerebral, and daring, different minds require different amounts of points in each of these categories. Jobs earn you money to spend on items and quests. Therefore you spend your days working, training and slowly getting into the minds of the women around you.
That's not all however. To unlock stronger powers, such as subjugation and mind transfer, you must venture into your mind and go through rather unique alternate stories to obtain them. If that wasn't enough for you, then once you finally get a girl under your control, you can define what kind of a subject she will be; a girlfriend who loves you and your harem, a mindless drone for sexual intercourse only, or a servant. Each member of your harem can be tasked with earning you experience, money or mind points (which are used to complete your control over another mind). You can also have up to 4 members of your harem move into your house, give them a command on what they wear when you summon them, even have the option of setting specific one to wake you up in the morning.
Now what kind of game would be complete without the sexual content? Well Shattered Minds certainly delivers on that front wholeheartedly. Right off the bat when you're picking the names for the characters, we see beautiful renders and animations. Scenes in this game feature handjobs and blowjobs when you're first tapping into the mind of women, to full on intercourse, creampies, threesomes and more! As there are currently 13 women you can have in your harem, each one has their own unique animations and scenes. Enough to feast your eyes on and not want to tear away from the screen! The sexual content blends right into the story, both go hand in hand, which is simply amazing!

The conclusion is simple: do not miss out on Shattered Minds. It offers a vast cast of women, gorgeous renders and animations, especially when you get them pregnant. The care taken for the different stages of pregnancy is astounding, you can visibly see the changes! Open world to explore in sandbox mode, a deep and well written intriguing story that's still developing with a mystery at its core! This is what every man has ever dreamed of, a superpower to control the minds of others! Surely no one can disagree. It must be put to great use, for a truly noble purpose! To build the best harem in the world! As it stands right now you're looking at roughly 20 hours of gameplay without cheats, such a vast amount of content for an early access title is unheard of! If you've played the previous game from the developer; Fates Determination and enjoyed the story, then you'll enjoy Shattered Minds which are both set in the same universe!

Rating:

8.5/10

Been playing since the early builds on Patreon and picked it up on Steam to support the dev. Long story short - this is a great one! The game can be a bit grindy as you level up your powers and earn money in order to expand your harem empire, but the payoffs are worth it. The ladies are gorgeous and all waiting to be corrupted! So what are ya waiting for champ? Get to it!

Oh and before you go flying to the discussion board to ask/complain, the base version of the game doesn't have.. Familial relationships if ya get my meaning, BUT fear not! Google exists, and there you'll find a free patch you can download which will change things up a bit with a certain blonde and brunette whom you happen to share a home with. Literally takes a second to download the patch file. From there, find the game folder on your PC, drop the patch file into the game folder and boom! Familial stuff awaits! Enjoy~ (I might just create a guide post if enough ppl are struggling with this)