Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme

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Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme is visual novel created by Transcendent Games, that is about gender bending

Liam and Derek are two scientist working for a pharmaceutical company called Abaddon, and despite making some progress on gender altering research, they find out their funding will be slashed soon if they don't deliver some production level results, so they decide speed up work on their gender bending experiments despite the risks.

One freak lab accident later, both are turned into women, and thanks to the accident enveloping the entire building, everyone nearby gets caught in the explosion and switches genders as well.

The game is set in such a way you can play from the POV of most of the characters who have been gender bent, with the story differing depending on protagonist. Also, the game features a few other transformation options besides Gender Bendering as well.

It's a multiplatform game for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Tropes used in Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme include:
  • Animesque: The art and plot definitely take cues from anime, though Word of God is that it's not purposeful homage to anything in particular.
  • Art Shift: The later characters introduced into the game have much better art than the earlier ones. However, some of the older art has been revised in later editions of the game since it was released as a WIP.
  • Bi the Way; A few characters and love interests aren't particularly choosy.
  • Broad Strokes: Despite the consistent meta plot involving Lynn and Dina building an underwater lab and having varying levels of involvement with the other transformations outside the initial lab accident, all the arcs play fast and loose with some details, chucking some character pairings out the window depending on arc where recurring characters from the other arcs show up. This is partially because the game has it's own internal timeline that the writers are attempting to keep mostly consistent, and partially so no one arc becomes a permanent Continuity Snarl for the others.
  • Freak Lab Accident: Kickstarts the entire plot.
  • Gender Bender
  • Genre Shift; Rose/Russell's route features puzzle elements.
  • Het Is Ew: Somewhat averted. While a lot of routes only feature Gay Options, a few do feature straight options.
    • And some blur the lines of this trope, as why the parties involved may be heterosexual normally, they may engage in homosexual liaisons with each other, though only between themselves, as their base genders are still of the opposite sex.
  • Lego Genetics: Partially averted. While there does exist IRL certain hormone treatments and there are actual (if rare) mutations that can alter physical structure of humans and even their gender to a degree, what's depicted in the story requires the MST3K Mantra to accept as plausible.
  • Morphic Resonance: Apparently, the transformations that can add animal traits also add animal like senses of hearing and taste.
  • No Periods, Period: Averted. The MtF characters mention them as a consequence of their transformations, and a few confirm they experience them.
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: The pharmaceutical company in the game is called "Abaddon", named after the chief demon of the abyss in Judeo-Christian lore. The actual company isn't half so bad, though has a bad case of No OSHA Compliance.
  • No OSHA Compliance - The lab the whole story starts in has poor ventilation filtration and no lockdown procedures for accidents involving hazardous materials, despite being funded by a major pharmaceutical company, which does care somewhat about insurance premiums and safety lawsuits.
    • The underwater lab Lynn and Dina are working on in the game meta-arc is alluded to be this trope too, somewhat confirmed in later routes.
  • Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Enforced on all the initial victims of the lab accident, as the mutagen that altered their DNA did so to the degree it rejects further mutations to correct the original mutagen. Later versions of the same serum that caused the initial accident avert this trope.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: At first, in the early routes, its mentioned that Dina or Lynn walking around with animal ears looks odd, but they decide they don't care how people react. This trope is averted in later routes, where they managed to make the procedure to add animal traits somewhat commonplace for the average citizen.
  • Villain Protagonist: Technically speaking, this trope is initially played straight, downplayed, and ultimately subverted with Liam and Derek, with some seeing them as this trope in universe in their own routes, though this goes away somewhat in later routes, and they end on the final route as semi-heroic figures (while still being seen as villains to a degree). It's also sneakily played straight on the next to last route, where YOU wind up being this trope as the Twist Ending, and the dialogue never hints at this at all.
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