Lintw - The Simulated Märchen (Anatomically Correct Edition)
A downloadable game for Windows and Android
WARNING: This is the "anatomically correct" version of the game!
As featured on the concept's website, Lintw.net, Lintwians do not wear clothing.
The primary release censors their nudity for those who are uncomfortable with it.
This release displays them accurately to the source material!
If you are concerned about nudity, please check out the primary release: https://lost-hope.itch.io/lintw
Lintw - The Simulated Märchen is a simple simulator in which you can build a town on a distant planet and fill it with cute aliens named Lintwians.
Lintwians are animal-like creatures from the distant planet of Lintw.
They love to have fun - in fact their entire society is built around it!
It's up to you to build a happy little town from the ground up and fill it with Lintwians. You'll be in charge of not only constructing houses, planting trees and creating toys but genetically engineering the Lintwians themselves!
Fill your town with any of eight subspecies and customise their colours and appearance to your liking, or leave it all to chance!
Watch them prance around, play with toys, interact with each other and live out their little lives on your screen. Each Lintwian is blessed with a unique appearance, name and personality. Some may require more care than others, but if you do your best they will provide you with the Joy Power you need to expand your town!
Inspired by Sonic Adventure's Chao Garden and the Creatures A-Life series, Lintw - The Simulated Märchen aims to be a relaxing, casual and passive experience that can be enjoyed slowly and long-term.
Explore Lintw and try to unlock all 21 of the game's hidden achievements!
The game has undergone limited testing through a small group so if you happen to experience any major bugs or issues, please report them!
Do note that the Android version is missing some graphical effects. Performance may also be lower in this version, be aware!
If you enjoy the game and would like to see the game expand with new subspecies and features, please consider donating and commenting!
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Development log
- Version 2.0 Released!Jul 09, 2020
- Update 1.1Nov 30, 2018
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I like that this game has no sex in it. Just cuteness. By the way; what game did you release on Steam?
Game needs to be updated to work on newer Android versions
This game works on my phone (Android 13), I don't know about others, but I agree, it's time to update the game, but it is unknown whether the developer plans to update it, since this game is being developed by an unofficial developer and it is not clear whether he himself works on this game, but I am grateful to him for his work on the game
The game doesnt work for android
Hello developer, I have an idea for an update to this game called "hentai addition" and this update included the mechanics of reproduction but in the form of 18+ animations that could scale at will or with a magnifying glass, but this did not always lead to reproduction since the chance of becoming pregnant in females was random, and new toys for “copulation” were also added, which they could use both alone and in front of everyone without hesitation, thereby exciting others(it’s just an idea,forgive me for being a pervert 😅)......but if we talk about the matter, there are not enough more varieties of furry aliens, more toys, more vegetation and buildings and I also want a new type of building like a residential building that could be expanded by connecting them or adding floors, and you could also enter the house yourself and furnish it with different furniture, and also these aliens could live there and invite their friends to visit or visit them, it just seems strange to me that they live on the street and do not interact with buildings.In general, thank you very much for this game and I hope for further development as there is still a lot that can be added to it), good luck with the development
Sorry for the mistakes, I'm just using a translator but I hope you understand me
it’s a sweet little game, the graphics are cute and it’s got a good amount of content the screen constantly misalligns and it’s hard to read when there’s a lot of text IE seeing lint’s stats, description, info, resolution scaling is not particularly good is there any plan to keep developing the game or is it considered finished and now updates whatsoever will be made? I think many people would like to see this concept to be expanded upon and grow as a project
Might come back to it, maybe within the year, if at the very least to implement some things I've learned from newer projects (such as having cleaner, integer scaling options) and things that are obviously missing (audio)
Unsure what else it really needs!
It is, however, not a priority at the moment as I've since released a game on Steam, and I'm neck deep in the development of another!
It would be nice if he returned to the game or provided you with materials and opportunities to develop the game to you, but where can he be found at the moment?
are there hentai scenes here? If there is, how to achieve them?
You should add more languages, I know English, but with the small letters and everything is in English, it's hard to get used to it.
Just bought the game, I adore it. would kill for more customization options and toys for my little dudes.
Hopefully the ability to make paths they can walk on for verticality too
Anyways its super cute and im glad i stumbled onto your work,
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐢 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤?
Set my PC to 800 x600 and it looked much better. I could see them! ^.^
Was very hard to see them on a small 27" 4K display. set to 4K. O.o
I did try to use windows magnifier tool. But for some reason, the magnifier would stop flowing the mouse the moment it was over the game, making the magnifier useless for this. Otherwise, it would have been real nice to have used it with this game.
This is a cute game.
Wish the little Lintwins looked half as good in the play area as they do in the viewing image of them. Would be good to see this remade in something like Unity, so as to fill a lager play area also, and the little ones can be seen better.
Would be quite something to see this remade in 3D, with models made in Blender. Though I understand, that would be vastly harder to make.
Not only got use to some of the game play, but was able to manipulate the save file some also.
I could customize a few things within the save file itself. The Joy Power (cash) was the most easy to set to whatever I wanted. Most everything about the Lintwins I could reset also. The animal type, colors, sex, friend, actual typed in fitting names I can remember, and more. ^.^
Other than the little Lintwins looking so tinny in the play area, I do like the idea of the game.
I have no idea how I stumbled upon this game, but I'm glad I did. I appreciate how it doesn't really have a goal and a player can just enjoy it the way they want. Having no guide, explanation or notification to the achievements makes them only a minor extrinsic factor and other than that it was my intrinsic choice to keep playing the game. It's a great escape from reality!
So far I pretty much understood everything quite well aside from one thing. What does the Star Tower do?
Also I'd like to know what your thoughts were behind the mushrooms?
I read through some comments here and would like to add some stuff:
I hope you keep updating the game, because I'm looking forward to seeing it evolve.
I found a bug where after creating a custom Lintwian, all the others became clones of that one. This never happened before.
Whoa, now that's a curiosity!
Did the bug persist after closing and reopening the game, and did it affect existing lintwians or only ones created after?
I reloaded the save and it was fixed.
Hm, if it happens again, let me know what triggered it!
Can you make some sort of guide that covers everything the tutorial doesn't cover?
The intent is that it is mostly pretty opaque and mysterious, drawing from the sense of discovery I enjoyed about games like Digimon World and SA2's Chao Garden.
There's actually a boolean I intentionally hardcoded at the end that flips the game into displaying in english, as it was developed to display all numbers in base 8 and all text in Lintwese! I figured that was maybe a little rough on people so I added a small tutorial and changed it back to english.
If you're looking for specific answers or how-tos, though, feel free to ask here and I'll provide instruction as best I can; I'm happy to do write ups on specific features or items if they're perhaps being a little more puzzling than intended!
Thanks, and one feature I think would be nice is the ability to change Lintwians' fur colors in the salon.
Now that's a good suggestion, that'll be top on my list of items for a potential next content patch.
Oh gosh, this is adorable <3
Wow! This game is so cute, and fun too! (I literally created an account on this website in order to leave a comment on this game.)
will there be an update?
The update has just been released, sorry for the delay
This game is so cute and adorable! It is so cool to see the characters just fooling around and playing! And indeed is pretty relaxing!
And it is really good to finally find another game depicting nudity in a more natural and innocent way. I think this really helps to fight back the taboos that society has around this subject.
Glad to see I am not alone with that here on itch. :)
Nudity is natural, and in that sense Nokoyama's works were inspiring.
A lot of his themes tackled how meaningless some taboos are, and his work depicted cute and innocent characters without clothing not for the purposes of eroticism but to fight against what he called "the orderly world".
I'm glad that my little simulator captures at least a little of that essence and know you're not alone on itch!
Sounds interesting!
Who is this Nokoyama and where can I see more of his works? :)
Another thing...
I am not sure if the game really doesn’t have audio or if this was just a problem in my computer and I would have to re-launch the game (Well... now is late and I already turned off the computer, so I guess I won’t be able to check right now). But while playing the game with no audio, it really came to my head how fitting it would be to the Sound of the Shire from Lord of the Rings
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LML6SoNE7xE
Just this feeling of joy, simplicity, and peace matches the game so well! XD
Ah, Nokoyama was the creator of the Lintw concept!
For a few years he posted a daily illustration and maintained a wiki for the project over at Lintw.net, but unfortunately it is long gone along with his other websites; some of it is still available via Wayback machine though.
Sadly the game does not have any audio; if you know any nice royalty free audio to use or anyone who wouldn't mind composing something to add in, let me know!
Yeah... that is really a pity.
And no... I am sorry... I wouldn’t know anyone who would be able to compose anything...
I could try myself... I composed the music for my games... but I am actually really bat at it... I take a way too long time and don’t get a minimally satisfying result...
... Hhhmmm...
You could take a try on the Youtube Audio Library. I guess you could find some good things there! :)
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
Hey, I love this game, yet I have one, very simple question...
How do you get Lintwians to rest?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the post!
They can be distinctly stubborn about it depending on their personality type and the food they've been eating (some of them provide minor or major bonuses to their energy levels that can keep them awake a long time), but they'll sleep when they reach a house or the door to the castle if they're sufficiently tired.
If they've reached critical tiredness levels try dropping them onto a house or into the door to the castle, if they don't sleep then petting them a few times when they're in position can encourage them to stop sitting around complaining about being tired and actually go and rest.
If they're both extremely tired and extremely hungry, you can also just feed them said energizing fruits to pep them up and skip the snooze.
Let me know if that helps, and feel free to share screenshots of your Lintwians!
Is there any difference between the two versions of the game aside from them being anatomically correct?
Nope, should be identical otherwise.
I just understand that some people might not be comfortable seeing a handful of pixels representing nudity and published two versions out of taste.
Saves are compatible between versions on PC and Android versions should be able to install over each other so you can change back and forth without losing data.
Feel free to choose whichever experience is more comfortable for you, though the anatomically correct version is the "canon" experience.
I'm getting a Virus warning when i try to play this.
Like with most obscure independent titles on this site you're likely to find that virus scanners will provide a warning simply because the game is not a known executable to most antivirus suites.
I know it's a little frustrating to deal with it every time you launch things, but it's probably better to know your virus protection is paranoid rather than dangerously relaxed.
Please feel free to scan and submit the game through whichever antivirus software suite you use to get it approved as safe; the only system access this game uses is one for a disk write, which is hardcoded to read and write from the text file lintdata.ini in the same folder as the game itself (or create the file if it does not exist), simply for saving and loading your game.
Can you make that they can breed
Hello, Kelmarec!
This little game is based on an existing property, with the blessings of the original creator.
According to the source material, due to the large genetic variations between individual Lintwians they have significant difficulty naturally reproducing; instead they rely upon the lab systems covering the planet for genetic splicing as a means of fulfilling the same function.
In order to prevent abuse of these systems, however, it is not within their control to willingly create new Lintwians.
Such a thing is governed by the AI systems present in each lab, which monitors the surface world's population and acts according.
In this game I represent that by allowing the player, taking the role of an overseer, to willingly create new Lintwians, including the ability to create completely customised individuals.
I suppose I could quite happily add a genetic splicing option so that two Lintwians could still have genetic offspring, though the concept of familial relations does not exist on Lintw so it would just be a middle ground between the "completely random" and "completely custom" character generation options.