A downloadable Magical B⭐tch for Windows, macOS, and Linux


⭐️DA-DA-DADA!⭐️

BULLIES OF MIDDLING MIDDLE SCHOOL, YOU’RE IN FOR A SURPRISE!
This magical girl is out for revenge.

Stream our awesome original soundtrack on Spotify! 

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SUPERSTAR STORYTELLERS

Isabelle Caron - Director, Editor, VO Director    |    Rae West - Writer, Editor, VO Director, Banner Designer

Shannon Chou - Writer, Editor, Sticker Illustrator, Itch Page Assistant    |    Jaqui Lee - Writer, Editor, Itch Page Writer and Designer    |    Carrie Harris - Editor

AWE-INSPIRING ARTISTS

Isabelle Caron - Sprite Artist, Animator, CG Artist    |    Nathan Estrabillo - 3D Modelling BG Artist

Hannah Law - CG Artist    |    Jan Hehr - Logo Designer    |    Mad Scientist - UI Artist

POWERFUL PROGRAMMERS

DKG - Programming    |    Marionette - UI Programmer, Programming    |    Rae West - Scene Programmer    |    Shannon Chou - Programming    |    Hannah Law - Scene Programmer    |    Taylor Fernandez - Scene Programmer

ADVANCED AIR WAVE BENDERS 

Leon Artmann - Sound Designer, Audio Engineer    |    Jan Hehr - Composer

Shannon Chou    |    Claire Wilshire    |     Taylor Fernandez - Audio Assistants

OOOOH LA LA OPERATIONS

Claire Wilshire - Producer, VO Director    |    Rae West - Project Manager

STAR-STUDDED CAST

Abby Pasion as Tabbie    |    Noah Belachew as Eden 

Victor Melin as Calem and Tonathan    |    Jacob “Zombie_J” Mira as Mr. Teacher and the Monster

Taylor Fernandez as Strength and Clown    |    Ali Gohar as Magician

Nyima Green as Stu    |    Eden Solomon as Den    |    Corey LeVier as PA Guy and Sad PA Guy

Robin van der Niet as Love    |    Joyce Liu as Corpse    |    Shelley Hunter as Doll

This contains Acts 1 to 2, with 3 well on the way. Keep up to date on our socials!
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I can't wait to see it complete. If I could, I'd already have tried sending money. This game and Tabbie deserve all and more of the attention they'll get. Or maybe not Tabbie... yet. But still, I love her, I love the story, and I'm waiting for this Halloween of 2026!

Also, I'm sliming Stu, Den and Tonathan out (affectionately).

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Im so glad i found this. It's so peak 🥹

I hope it's available on Android too...🥲 It's so good.

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Genuinely surprised this is available for free. It's so good???

It looks great, the characters are SO expressive, the character designs are simple but powerful, THERE ARE ACTUAL ANIMATED MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATIONS???? (NOT ONE TRANSFORMATION. MULTIPLE. WHAT)

The story is very fun, and I think Tabby is genuinely the star of it. I love her character - I love the fact that she is far from the usual happy and kind magical girl protagonist but also that she is not _evil_ either. She is an angsty teen who is a little too stuck inside her head and is kind of self-centered (and honestly so are most teens imho), and that leads her to behaving like, well, a B⭐tch. But also the fact that her own flaws an actions get confronted,that her worldview gets challenged. And ALSO the fact that even when it's challenged and even when she does try to do better, it's still not ideal.

I also really like the more western-cartoony take on the magical girl genre; this vn feels like it sits in about the same niche as Powerpuff Girls and especially the more recent Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl, both of which are amazing (and so is tmgiab). And that leads me to voice acting. I'm usually meh about voice acting - cool if it's there, as long as it's good, completely fine if it isn't - but I think here it adds a LOT and really helps embrace this cartoony vibe, like I am actually watching a show on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network and not reading an indie visual novel. And, obviously, the performance of VAs is sooo good.  

All in all, I look forward to the following episodes and can't wait to find out what happens next!

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Hi ! Played your game during a "halloween let's play together special livestream" ! We  selected the choices through polls ! We couldn't finish the game, but for what we played we really loved it !! I laughed a lot during the gameplay ! Tabbie's character is really interesting and the game is overall really hilarious !!

Started playing your game at 3:53:56 and finished it at around 5:27:25 so nearly twos hours of gameplay !! 
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tabbie is literally just this

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this game is cool and all but the only reasonablr character here is strengh , like , WHY DO ALL THESE PEOPLE ACT LIKE THIS ???

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Super funny and the art is great!!

The second I saw the pixies my brain was slapped with memories of shugo chara, part of me hopes that it was an inspiration for the nostalgia's sake haha

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I absolutely loved this game so far and Tabbie's character. I think she just overthinks things like the rest of us do.

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What its the funniest is that, as a graphic novel, each has a different perspective, for example, in my perspective Tabbie hits then askes but still admits things she has done wrong even if she has her schizophrenia (I know is not that, I am just joking) and thinks everyone hates her

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Okay. I.... LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!! At first, I thought I was really going to dislike Tabbie. I couldn’t stand how mean she was for no reason. But as the story went on, she started to grow on me. She has some genuinely funny moments, and I can see a lot of potential for character development. I even found her kind of relatable at times. Super excited to see Act 3! ALSO LET THE PIXIES GOO! But yeah, this game is amazing.

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this was so epik.. anyway yeah teacher guy is hot 10/10 game

LET THE PIXIES FREE ARGHHH

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Wow...gotta say this is one great game. The artstyle, voices, story...also the jokes were great, personal best is the "What are you gonna do, stab me?" News thing. Hope there is work on future updates (and auditions for va's, tho i feel i have to low voice after hearing everyone).

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nah eden is on fraudwatch how can u have a power up and fight an enemy with useless lasers whu fights over control of her own body and still fumble!??  bro is up there with the immortal from invincible as one of the greatest frauds in history.

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i remember playing this game a long time ago and came back to it to see if it has any updates and hell yea its awesome

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Ngl, Mister Monster looks kind of fine

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so happy that they dropped act2, this is one of my favorite indie games 

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i actually fucking hate her man, i just wanted eden to be happy. Loved the eden monster design

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Want to listen act2 bgm...

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Hi, I want to know when is the split between act 1 and act 2 is happening~ Thanks!

Is the game fully voiced?

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yes lol (besides narration)

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BABE WAKE UP ACT TWO IS JUST DROPPED!! the way i sped to download this help lol. the BACKGROUNDS??? theyre SO cool i love them. also love the new art and sprites thats been added for part 2! also can i say i appreciate how nuanced the writing is to all its characters and situations? grahh i adore it.. im excited to see the many tribulations that will occur to these guys beacuse wow dude..!!! that cliffhanger is gonna keep me SPIRALLINGGG till then... i cant wait for act 3 alr! (jk i can wait this game deserves the time it needs to COOK)

(also love's va LITERALLY eats up every scene!!)

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THIS WAS PROBABLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE VISUAL NOVELS OF THIS YEAR! I'm a big fan of voice acting visual novels, this game intrigued me especially since I've never played a visual novel that involved Magical Girls!

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Dude that cliffhanger is keeping me ready for the next one, also I feel bad for Eden

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came here for a quick good time and left with my little mind racing. awesome game, ill defo keep a close eye on this one.

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this game is so freaking funny. I love the artwork so much!!

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Act 2 is a colossal improvement, I felt the nuances of the writing start to reveal themselves and fill a lot of the questions that I had, forming a much better mold of the characters that give the cast a much-desired amount of independence from the first impressions and tropes that were established.

Albeit further proving (at least to me) the title is misleading, I felt much more attachment and relatability within not only Tab but the rest of the casts' viewpoints on the events of the game.

I feel somewhat vilified in seeing TMGIAB not only reach a Steam release but better establish its main plot threads and while I see the adherence to identifiable tropes as a bit of a constraint, it's great to see the game hasn't let it be a constraint when engaging me in the story.

While the twists are a bit...unexpected (I don't know whether I mean that as a positive),  I still felt enthralled in the plot the game was following, and I'm excited to see where Act 3 heads next.

Obviously I'd be amiss to not mention Robin's jawbreaking  vocal set piece  and overall fantastic performance (get this mf a grammy), as well as the rest of the casts' improvements as they start to settle with the roles more (tay fern's still goated), along with the bettered sound design and art all around (respect to that 3d CG artist).

in other words
game got good

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This was a great demo!! Tabbie definitely lives up to the title!

One question, is the game over screen also a CG? It didn't show up on the Extras, yet I'm still missing one CG.

Thank you aah! Means a lot coming from you <3

(And yeahhhh, she's only going to get worse :D)

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tabbie is literally me ngl, but seriously this whole game was absolutely AMAZING, I can't wait to play the full version! 

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I love how sorta insufferable Tabbie is loll

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She's so awful I love her

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hope manlybadasshero plays it!!!

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i want mr. teacher

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nvm he sounds like a twink

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You made the team's day, ty 😂

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hard to believe this is jam game

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🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤

Whaaa thank you so much for playing our game!! 💕🤗

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ss

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I haven't played this yet, but I can feel that it will be awesome

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Had lots of fun playing through this Demo!!

I'm late in replying to you here, but thank you so much for playing our game!! 🥺

My pleasure!

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Had an absolute blast playing the demo.  So much so that I only played the Monday portion because I wanna have even more to dig into once the game's finished.  

This was seriously amazing.  The style is incredible, the writing is snappy as hell, the music fits so well.  The entire tone of what you're doing here is PERFECT.  I really can't wait to see how all this winds up.

Best of luck on the rest of development. I'll be eagerly waiting to play day one.

Thank you so much for the high praise!! Can't wait for everyone to experience the rest of the game! 🥰

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