A Mirror's Curse
You are Ethan Yoon, a normal boy.
Just a regular high schooler—until a fateful encounter at the Autumn Festival leaves you cursed. Now, every little thing you do pushes you further from the boy you once were and closer to... something else.
Your only clue? A cryptic fortune teller, a mysterious girl, and the unsettling realization that your reflection isn't quite your own anymore.
With each passing day, you must navigate the halls of Pacific Crest High School while managing your ever-changing body and identity. Do you embrace the transformation or fight to stay the same? Who can you trust with your secret? And, as the lines blur between magic and reality, will you ever break the curse—or was it never really a curse to begin with?
Your choices shape your fate. Who will you become?
🔮A Fully Customizable Transformation System — Experience a modular paperdoll system where changes are reflected in Ethan's sprite.
🎭Dynamic CGs That Reflect Your Choices — Major scenes feature illustrated CGs that adapt to Ethan's current appearance.
📖 A Branching Narrative With Meaningful Choices — Will you fight the curse, embrace it, or carve out your own path? With multiple routes and diverging storylines, your decisions shape Ethan's journey.
🏫Slice-of-Life Meets Supernatural Mystery — Balancing high school life with the strange and unknown. You can join clubs, make friends, and unravel the truth behind your curse—all while keeping up with homework.
💡Multiple Paths, Multiple Outcomes — Pursue different routes, from cheerleading to theater, art, or even magic.
👗Fashion & Customization — Customize Ethan's outfits as his transformation unfolds.
Luke – The Loyal Best Friend
Ethan's childhood friend, Luke has always been the easygoing friend who's always there when you need him. As a football player with a big heart, he's the kind of guy who hypes up his friends, shares his snacks, and never hesitates to throw an arm around Ethan's shoulders.
Samantha – The Sharp-Tongued Ride-or-Die
If sarcasm were a sport, Samantha would be an Olympic gold medalist. She's the friend who roasts Ethan at every opportunity, rolls her eyes at his dumb remarks, and acts like she's way too cool to care. But beneath all the dry humor and biting remarks? She's the one who'd burn the whole world down for him if he needed her to.
Jessica – The Queen Bee
Effortlessly popular, flawlessly put together, and always in control—Jessica is the girl everyone wants to be or be with. She rules the school with a perfect smile and a cutting remark, and nothing ever seems to shake her. But perfection is a heavy crown to wear, and behind the designer outfits, there's a girl terrified of showing weakness.
Vincent — The Adorable Bookworm
Vincent is the kind of guy who always has his nose in a book, not because he's uninterested in the world, but because he's unsure how to exist in it. Soft-spoken and a little awkward, he's brilliant when talking about the things he loves but completely hopeless when it comes to confidence.
Aurora — The Witch with Secrets to Spare
Aurora walks the fine line between myth and reality. No one knows if she's actually a witch or just really committed to the aesthetic—but no one's brave enough to ask. With her piercing gaze, cryptic one-liners, and eerie knack for knowing things she shouldn't, most people keep their distance.
Jordan — The Ice-Cold Star Athlete
Jordan is the guy everyone knows but no one actually knows. A star athlete, good-looking, and seemingly untouchable, he carries himself with an air of cool detachment. Most people assume he's just naturally arrogant—but the truth is, he's exhausted.
A Mirror's Curse is a passion project, and almost everything—the writing, coding, story design, gameplay mechanics, production, and more—is done by me. Every choice, transformation, and branching path is handcrafted to create a unique experience for players.
However, the stunning artwork that truly brings the game to life is created by talented artists, who are fully credited in the game's dedicated credits section. Their work is essential in making Ethan's journey as visually appealing as possible.
This project is a labor of love, and I'm incredibly grateful for the community that's been built around it. Whether you're here for the story, the transformation, or the romance, thank you for being part of this journey.
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- 0.23 Changelog11 days ago
- 0.22 Changelog42 days ago
- 0.21 Patched Changelog71 days ago
- 0.20 Patched Changelog86 days ago
- 0.19 April Fools ChangelogMar 31, 2025
- 0.19 Patched ChangelogMar 29, 2025
- 0.18 Patched ChangelogMar 08, 2025
- 0.17 Patched ChangelogFeb 18, 2025
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I absolutely love this game and I really hope to see more of it as the game develops!!!!!!! Please keep working on this I don’t have much money right now but when the full game is available I will definitely be putting in at least 20 dollars!!! Thanks for posting this game I absolutely love it!
What's the estimated length of the game? I kind of doubt that the whole year is doable, so is there a earlier end date planned?
I wouldn’t be surprised if amaty did some time jump for the short term but then after a while and a bunch of updates later they put it as a flashback that you could play through.?
it keep saying the default is the best
It do not work I am in the 1st chose it keep refrshing
I came across your game not so long ago and it looks like I've already fallen in love with it. It's not often possible to empathize or even get used to the main character. I look forward to the further development of the game.
And I almost forgot. After looking at the change reports, I saw that there are a lot of clothes for customizing the hero, the same skirts. Can anyone tell me how to open them?
I think they might be coming on the shopping update, that's only available on patreon right now, other than that you can wear a skirt on the cheerleader practice but i think that's it fo now
you can also wear a dress during the Truth or Dare game during the party after the football game.
Also during the 2nd fashion club event you can wear a dress.
Hello. I find your game to be very heartwarming. I'm not a big fan of the adult content, so I'm happy that there is a warning and an option to disable it. There aren't many visual novels with really exceptional dialogue and prose, but yours does have it. It must take a lot out of you to keep bouncing your imagination between perspectives when you're writing scenes. Your process must be quite special, and I'm glad you're sharing it with us.
The artwork does, as you say, make everything more special - but the core of it is your writing and your skill at characterization. You should be very proud of yourself and what you've created, and *I* am proud of you for sharing what must be a very personal and close-to-your-core narrative. It's always special when a person lets you in a bit, and when someone does it on such a grand scale - like an emotional open house... that's brave. I couldn't ever.
I'm excited to see what is in store for Ethan. I can't support you right now because I'm in a somewhat desperate situation, but what I've been able to access already has made me excited to see what will be waiting when I come back to check sometime in the future.
I believe in you. Don't give up.
i am crying because it makes my so happy and question shit i was 100% shore i was a dude but now im over thinking because it was to relatable. good job amaty
I can't explain how much I love Jordan's route. It's just so sweet and fluffy. Love this game in general and can't wait for more!
Keep up the good work Amaty! This update came right in time for a hard day, lifted me up off the floor!
Thanks for the update. Ran out of content fast but a good narrative is worth the wait.
v gud :)
Is it possible to get a bigger breast size than average? The game files have it, but the game itself doesn't have that option.
Currently, above average breast sizes are not available in the game, but they will be in a future update
I've been really enjoying this game for the last week, and have subscribed to your patreon recently. I've been looking through earlier posts and saw a very nice traditional Korean outfit. Any chance that something like it will turn up in game? I'm totally intending to go for a traditional Korean name when it comes time to change Ethan. Is Ethan mixed heritage? I don't think I've noticed it being spelled out.
I should have said something about this game sooner. I've been following it since one of the very first releases, and the quality of the writing is absolutely bonkers. For context, I've played a lot of transformation games - I would assume that you have too, and I've seen a lot of the good and the bad of those games. It truly feels like A Mirror's Curse builds off of all of the other games of it's type. (For example I assume there's huge YTLAG inspo here). But yet it supersedes them in many ways, most notably by being unabashedly wholesome. Most TFGames are pretty fetishy, and that ultimately does a huge disservice to one of the primary, though likely unintended audiences, that being trans people. I guess that's to say, it genuinely does feel like this game was made for me, and I don't know if I'll ever make a game like this myself - I've certainly tried, but if I do, at the very least, I'll have one more place to look. Also, the rate you push out new updates is genuinely insanely impressive. You show more dedication to this game then I've shown for any of my AO3 fanfic (mentioning that is maybe unnecessary but idk), and I wish I could support you, but... I'm broke. Maybe one day. I just want you to know I'm really thankful for this!
Wanna see more even more of the future of our character we are playing maybe he's becoming in his female self a mother who knows but anyways keep it up I'm hyped to see what next updates are coming for this game
I wanna throw hands w/ the principal
[Rhetorically, of course, i am not strong enough to do so]
You allone May Not be strong enough but you have an Advantage. You are Not allone. You have literaly every other Person who played this Game on your Side so lets beat that fuck into the next Millenium
...Millennium, huh?
PRINCIPAL
Let's Play A [Shadow] Game.
I do Not understand that reference but If The principal suffers for His dickass Views i'm in
You're a hecking witch, there's a scene in this game where just releasing your pent up mana fucking bends trees, you could bend this mans fucking spine.
that principal can go to hell
Enjoyable sweet game. Looking forward to future updates.
Is there no downloadable version?
You can download A Mirror’s Curse from its TFgames page
There's a way to download it, my itch does report a significant portion do download, but I don't know how they do that as I'm on the creator end.
Here's a download link.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5k5d52x7nr1a61p/A_Mirror%2527s_Curse_0.22.zip/fil...
Thanks, this worked w/o problems.
Somehow TFgames doesn't work for me atm.
where will it update I love this game
Looking at the changelog dates, I'd say anywhere between 15 & 29 days
thank tou
It updates on itch/tfgs/f95. Some other sites reupload the game, but that's not me doing that.
If you meant when, probably before the end of the month.
try looking into procedural generation it could prove useful.
Ps. I love the game keep up the good work!
Procedural generation for an interactive fiction game? lol
What is the max amount of transformation points you can get, and how?
Currently, there are 15 transformation points in the free version, and the best way to find out how to get them is by watching the walkthrough in the social section of this page.
It just seems that one transformation point is missing from the walkthrough: on the 2nd day, if you choose "Brush your hair again" as your first choice, you’ll get 1 transformation point.
The walkthrough has all the transformation points and a few other hints.
Thanks! On a somewhat unrelated note, I think there's a minor issue where with the portrait, when it's on the undergarment setting, if your currently wearing a bra it won't show up.
how do you get the hidden assets?
I’m not sure if it’s part of the hidden assets, but in 0.23, if you’re in the Fashion Club, you can get an exclusive blue dress.
The other hidden assets will be available starting from 0.24.
This is the answer.
I reached the neutral ending and started crying. I am genderfluid, and played the game the way I lived during that era; curious, changing, but resistant to my own growing sense of something more. And I've stayed basically closeted as cis since then, too. It hit hard, but in a well-written way, not like a cheap shot.
I will play again, and make sure to allow more change to avoid that ending, because I want to see more. But in the now, I feel seen in a bittersweet way.
I have not yet went neutral, I have only done as much transforming as possible. What happens in the neutral route?
literally nothing, the game just ends with some sequal stuff
This is a really interesting perspective! Thank you for sharing. Most people who got the neutral ending were people not interested in TGTF who stumbled upon this game.
Honestly, I wish it could go either way for more diversity. It would be fun if MC could go from female to male, too. Creator wouldn't have the change the name, either, since Ethan is already somewhat of a girls name.
that would take a lot more time for updates, also you can change your name anyway so I dont see how that really matters
What? This game has a very specific audience I'm writing this game for. And trust me, changing the name wouldn't be the hard part. Your suggestion would be a whole new game.
That talk with the principal made me want to just rebel against him and make a grand spectacle of MC's transition.
Like an actionary way of saying "You want to play like that, fine. Here's an event you can have paperwork about asshole."
Amazing writing to make me hate a character so quickly.
Mission: Gather your Allies
The MC just goes around calling favors like john wick
Who knows, maybe you'll be able to do that in future updates. :p
Question, HOW THE HECK DO YOU GET THE HIDDEN ASSETS? lol, but seriously, I didn’t even know they existed until I looked at the change log, how do I get them?
Many of them are avaliable to buy starting from 0.24, part one of the shopping update.
Congratulations you made me hate a character within 2 scenes of dialogue
THOMPSON YOU IS A MOTHERFUCKER
I think I should be glad that I got this visceral of a reaction from you? Lol, thanks for playing.
If your goal was to make a dislikable character, then you succeeded tremendously
The bastard reminded me of my primary school principal. Total asshole looking for someone to bully. Even getting teachers to report fits the character. Looking forward to him getting what he deserves.
i fucking love this game but i got to the end of the content and have to wait so does anyone have a game or book like this one
I have a Scribblehub, and there are also great writers there that write trans fiction.
https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/110443/amaty/
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/310228/performative-masculinity/
Please consider offering your completed stories here on itch.io as well as on Scribblehub? SH is great but it’s also nice to be able to read stories offline and/or using one’s preferred ereader apps — and it can be a way for your reader to provide some financial support, too!
I do not want my previous works on this itch account. I'm far too ashamed of them.
1) You should not be ashamed of them. Not even a tiny bit. Even if you don’t think they’re any good, they are a part of the path you took on your way to where you are now.
2) you could make another account to publish them on and just link it. Something like “OldStuffByTotallyNotAmaty”
a bit of a wierd question ig but, i have tried a few things but how do you get two chest tf's before the gym scene? i can't seem to figure it out
Talk to aurora during the weekend after you get enough transformations up to that point
It's in the game's walkthrough!
ok guys i did it W game you gotta pick "Accept" during the dream at the end of the prologue (obv) and also during self reflection in home room you gotta choose the option thats like "im changing" and theres also something else but around the end of the first chapter you should have 20% trans stat
DUDE I GOT THE CIS ENDING THIS TIME WHY IS THIS GAME SO HARD I LIGRNEJJsjJSJS THIS GODDAMN CHARACTER IS SAYING THINGS I DONT WANT THEM TO
man im kinda upset i spent hours on my playthrough but got the neutral ending and had to restart from the beginning. I liked the route I was on but I wasn't exclusively going for girly options and I think its kind of lame to be forced into a cis route just because i dont want to play "critter crossing" grrr let me be a transfem tomboy
You just have to transform enough, the other route had to be cut due to budget and time constraints. I am a solo dev.
Yeah i gotcha i was just frustrated when i was writing this because i had to restart the entire game 😭 why even make a cis route though, if the game is about being trans?
By the way I love your game if I havent already said so.🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🗣🗣
I don't know, I guess I was just trying to accommodate every playstyle. I didn't realize how much work would go into this game. Now that we're further in development, I'm planning on focusing on the mtf trans experience with this project.
hello I think there is a bug in your game I can'r pick any chosses
I hate Mr Thompson so much… evil bureaucratic asshole!
This update is so goooood tho….
I know, right? I just commented that almost everyone has dealt with a powertripping ass like Principal Thompson before. I think that may be why people hate him so much. Glad to hear you enjoyed it though.
It's going very nicely. Well done. Keep up the good work. :)
I'm doing my best! Thank you.
this game makes me feel so happy... :'))
That's great to hear!
I have the very strong desire to absolutely destroy that principal
I think we've all dealt with someone like Principal Thompson in our lives before. Maybe that's why everyone hates him so much.
My favorite interactive novel updating on my day of from work!? Lucky me 😆😆😆
Wow, your favorite? I'm honored. Thank you!
Hello I love this game and can't wait for it to continue do you know any other games like this? I have an idea on how i want a game to go but I am not creative enough to make a great story for it if you know anyone that i could reach out to for help making a game i wouldn't mind it and I am looking forward to future updates of your game
I too am very excited and more than slightly addicted to this, apparently the next update should be coming by the end of the month so we will be getting more content soon!
You're probably going to have to make it yourself. I don't know anyone who would want to do that.
no worries I would be willing to pay I will just wait for more updates and I will constantly look for more games like this one, this game is amazing and you are a good story writer keep up the good work
Try "a name in bloom" it hasn't got much content yet but looks good so far