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Q&A There are some polarizing kinks in the skill tree of your game, do you plan to fully execute them?

Nothing is Forever
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android

Short answer: yes, all skills in the skill tree will be used before the end of the game. There isn’t any kind of “false advertising”.


Longer answer: Okay, this is  a complicated question with several layers.

In “Nothing is Forever” you gain points through every choice you make in-game. With these points, you can get some kinky skills that range from vanilla to hardcore, and from maledom to femdom. 


While all skills will be used in-game, the 3rd level skills will only be used at later stages of the game. This is important for game mechanical reasons (players need to gather enough points to afford the skills), and for story reasons (the characters must explore their kinks starting with the vanilla ones).

This also means that there will be way more scenes requiring vanilla and intermediate skills, than scenes requiring hardcore skills.

Another layer of this question is what do the skills really mean. I had to pick 1 word to represent a kink and 1 sentence to explain it in the “Descriptions”. This, of course, is very limiting. To make things worse, some of these names have certain connotations associated with them from other adult games. The thing to keep in mind is that all the scenes will be portrayed in a more realistic manner than they usually are in this medium. Expect to see these kinky scenes play out in a similar way as they would happen in real life, as opposed to as you have seen them in some more unrealistic game.

For example, don’t expect some kind of “trainer game scene” behind the “Own her” skill, but rather a kind of "total power exchange" dynamic. Or, don't expect the “Free use” skill to mean there will be lewd scenes in the middle of the city just because you’re in a "free use" relationship. 

Also, it is important to not forget that, with all of these kinks, anything that happens, only happens if the submissive partner consents to it.


What if I don’t like a certain kink?

Everything will be optional and all lewd scenes locked behind the "kinky skills". A lewd scene containing a kink you don't like will never happen in the story as long as you don't get the required skill and don't make the choices that lead to that scene.

But, besides that, a particular lewd scene may also have several choices that the player can take to make it more vanilla or hardcore. In practice, this won’t be very different than what you can see in other adult games: do you know how you can usually choose between several sex positions (missionary, doggy, cowgirl, etc)? In this game you’ll be able to choose if certain kinks are present in a given scene, or if it plays in a more vanilla fashion. I try my best to not show anyone a kink they don’t want to see, but also to make the choices obvious so that you don’t miss the content you actually want. 

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