Second Skin is an adult life-sim visual novel about Alex, and about you: how you present yourself, who you fall

Second Skin is an adult life-sim visual novel about Alex, and about you: how you present yourself, who you fall for, and how you like to be treated. There is no single right path. Lean masculine or feminine, dominant or submissive, and every playstyle opens its own reactions from the people around you. The story adapts to how you actually play.
There is a wardrobe and appearance system with femininity gates on what you can wear, first-time crossdressing scenes, salon visits, a full cast with their own branching arcs, jobs, dating apps, stats, and minigames. A soft feminine playthrough and a hard masculine one are barely the same game.
Made solo, over a year in development. Around 95% of the game is free; a paid version adds bonus side scenes that do not affect the main story. Chapter 1 is complete, more chapters planned.

Thread Updated: 2026-09-19
Release Date: 2026-09-13
Developer: GABRO – Patreon – SubscribeStar – itch.io – Discord
Censored: No
Version: 0.1.7
OS: Windows, Linux
Language: English
Genre:
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AI CG, Character Creation, Male Protagonist, Female Protagonist, Sandbox, Romance, Dating Sim, Sissification, Feminization, Crossdressing, Femdom, Male Domination, Prostitution, Multiple Endings, Handjob, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Anal Sex, Masturbation, Groping, Voyeurism, Teasing, Humiliation, MILF
Installation:
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1. Extract the zip anywhere.
2. Run Second Skin.exe
No installer. Saves carry over between versions.
Changelog:
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v0.1.7
Second Skin 0.1.7: Soft-Lock Fixes, Skip Stat Grind Upgrades and a UI Pass
Mostly a bug and quality-of-life patch this time, built straight from your reports. Thanks to everyone who took the time to send them.
Fixes
– Curtis’s questline could quietly dead-end. If it happened to you, his place now unlocks automatically once the game sees you’ve already met him. No restart needed.
– Zora repeated herself. Failing the “distract me” beat in her Ginder chat replayed the same lines every retry. She now reacts differently the second time.
– Notification sounds no longer machine-gun you. Several toasts at once now play one sound instead of five.
– “Advances time” tag fixed. It’s now correct on event cards across every location.
– Gym gear at the park now accepts compression shorts, matching what the mall sells as a full workout outfit.
New and improved
– Suit Up. Hired at Daily Grind or Rosario’s but not in uniform? The Work Shift card now offers a one-click button that puts on whatever pieces you already own.
– Skip Stat Grind gets Horniness and Energy. Horniness is floored at 0 and stays there. Energy is pinned at your max. A warning icon explains that leaning on this heavily flattens the game’s intended pacing, so use it at your own risk.
– Sidebar polish. Money now shows with a $ and commas, the debt tooltip stops nagging once you’ve got a job, and there’s a new Save / Load shortcut under Navigate.
– New and touched-up art for Brooke, Marcus, Vivienne and Alex.
Saves from earlier versions carry over.
v0.1.6
STORY
• Made changes to the backstory involving Alex, Ray, Linda, and Mila. Their history together is told a bit differently now. No gameplay changes from this, just how their relationship is framed going forward.
BUG FIXES
• Fixed a soft-lock risk on Free/Censored builds: Dana, Marcus, Mei, Tyler, and Vivienne’s premium finale scenes weren’t flagged correctly internally, meaning those builds could hand out an empty placeholder as someone’s “next scene.” Fixed for all five.
• Fixed event cards (Vivienne, Vesper, Kai, Robin, Marcus, Tyler, Brooke, the mall shop girls) silently disappearing instead of showing locked when your Horniness was maxed out. They show up normally now and tell you to relieve yourself first if that’s the actual holdup.
• Fixed the censored build shipping without 2-3 explicit sleep-dream clips censored. Caught and fixed before this went out.
NEW
• Relief and Sleep both have a Play/Skip option now. Hover (or tap once on mobile) to split the card into Play and Skip — Play works like always, Skip applies the same end result instantly with no scene, for when you’ve already seen it enough times.
• New Settings option: pick your own stats to stop grinding. Under Skip Stat Grind there’s now a checklist — Fitness, Grade, Gaming, Coding, Attractiveness, Lewdity, Reputation, Hygiene. Check one and it maxes to this chapter’s real ceiling immediately and stops decaying. Uncheck it and it goes right back to normal.
BALANCE
• Construction siteFitness, same as a real workout — working construction now actually holds your Fitness instead of letting it decay.
• Cafeteria hot lunch no longer eats a time slot.
• Grilling gives +40 Energy (up from being the same as a plain meal) to actually justify the extra time it takes.
• Backyard Chill gives +20 Energy (up from 10).
• Laundry, Sorting Clothes, and Doing the Dishes all give Linda +0.35 affection now (up from +0.25).
• Removed the “Head to Toe” crossdressing achievement — it asked for a 7th slot that doesn’t have real content behind it yet. Rather than fake it, it’s gone for now.
Saves from earlier versions carry over.
v0.1.5
Another patch built almost entirely from your reports. A mix of real bugs, balance tuning, and some quality of life improvements.
Free and Censored builds could never show a character’s arc as “Complete.” A premium scene anywhere in someone’s story kept counting toward their total even though it was only a placeholder outside the premium edition. This meant finishing everything you could actually reach still showed the arc as unfinished. Fixed.
Gallery had duplicate Zora and Kai tabs, and clicking one highlighted both. Fixed. The entire gallery is now alphabetized.
Phones could still “disappear.” The previous patch used a value that does not survive being saved to a file, so the fix silently broke on the next autosave. Fixed properly. Any save already affected by this issue will now be automatically repaired when loaded.
Replaying a scene could sometimes put you in the wrong location, especially with Mila, where it could send you straight to the Suburbs. Fixed.
The school locker shower was still costing time. It now only affects energy and hygiene, matching the bedroom fix.
New: “Already Played” tags now appear on scenes and mini scenes you have already seen, making it easier to tell when you are replaying something.
Move Around shortcuts now also cover Downtown, Neighborhood, and Suburbs.
Skip Shift now pays better at both jobs, around 115% at Rosario’s and around 130% at the café.
New: Deodorant is now available as a quick bedroom action. It gives +20 Hygiene and can be used once a day.
Horniness and Fitness received a balance pass. Horniness now increases more slowly and Relief unlocks earlier. Fitness gains have been increased, and the construction site requirement has been reduced.
Fixed a duplicate image in one of Brooke’s school scenes.
Reworked some older and less realistic artwork in a couple of Brooke’s and Linda’s scenes.
UI polish: The Leave and Back button is now easier to spot. Settings now has a pointer to Save, Load, and Restart. The debt warning now explains how to start earning money. The Save and Load window now animates instead of snapping open and shut.
Saves from earlier versions carry over.
v0.1.2
– Fixed a character’s story list opening blank if that character had a premium scene (Brooke, Dana, Mei, Vivienne, Marcus, Tyler), which on some builds also broke the Scene Discovery page.
– Restaurant Dinner rush eased: fewer tables, seated slower, guests more patient. Tray and Footwork skill unchanged.
v0.1.1
– Energy rebalance: more starting energy, wake more rested, cheaper work shifts, beds now improve sleep as well as the cap.
– Download roughly 400 MB smaller (art packed more efficiently, no visible change).
v0.1.0
– First public release. Complete Chapter 1: full main cast and their arcs, jobs, dating apps, wardrobe and appearance system, minigames.
Developer Notes:
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Made solo. Art is AI-assisted (labelled AI CG); every scene is written and placed by hand. Around 95% of the game is free. Early beta, patched frequently based on player reports.
The Windows download is fully uncensored. The browser version on GamCore is the censored build (some explicit media replaced with a placeholder) – itch.io and GamCore have hosting limits the full build does not fit, so the uncensored version is download-only.
The game loads its display fonts from Google Fonts on first launch. It runs fine offline with fallback fonts. No other online features.
DOWNLOAD
Win: MEGA – BUZZHEAVIER – DATANODES – PIXELDRAIN – VIKINGFILE
Linux: MEGA – BUZZHEAVIER – DATANODES – PIXELDRAIN – VIKINGFILE

Others: Online (Censored)
Official website Free and Premium builds https://secondskin.games/

Second Skin [v0.1.7] [GABRO]