Ren'Py - Another Chance [v1.54] [TimeWizardStudios]

Amazing.

Not for everyone, but nothing ever is... almost all the negative reviews aren't about the game at all. Instead, they are about people's personal preferences. Like complaining that a shooter isn't a city builder, or that a puzzle game isn't an RPG. The world would be a boring place if every game was exactly the same.

In any event, this is a fantastic puzzle game. The writing is brilliant, clean, and clever. Every single interactive item has flavor text. The in game clues are fantastic, as they are often word games. The sort of clues where when you finally figure something out you go "Ah, of course! Well played."

Yes, I have been stumped many times, which is a good thing. I appreciate the complication. Every scene has multiple conversation options, with all of them having something to offer. Constantly shedding more light on the story and characters.

It is a rarity to see a game so well written, and so polished. I am not sure if I have ever seen a single typo or misused word (misused on accident). The references are often very clever, and I am sure lots of them go way over people's heads (mine included at times).

All the characters are interesting. The situations are fun.

If you don't want to play a puzzle game then go play something you do want to play, and leave this fantastic puzzle to those of us that do enjoy a well written and clever game. And, yes, it is a game. You have to actual play it, unlike the standard visual novel that are a dime a dozen.

I played an earlier version a few years ago, and thought it was quite ambitious. I came back to revisit it this week, and I am so glad I did. It is clearly moving forward well and maintaing an extremely high quality.

So few games are this well constructed. Bravo.

I have to say this game is one of the worst I've ever played. It's been out how long and there's barely any "adult" stuff. Let alone the h-scenes that are in the game are way too short. Talk about a boring blue-balling grindfest. Plus on top of all the crazy women in the story, you have a MC that at times is completely spineless wimp. Seems like the whole game is a bait and switch from the screenshots that are shown, but never see them in the game. Do the love and lust levels have to be at 100 before anything good actually happens? I played this game a couple of years ago and never could get into it. I understand if the dev wants a slow burn building up the relationships of all the LI's, but this game moves slower than a glacier. Plus all the filler mini games just to get more people to play the game. To be honest, at this point the dev just needs to finish the game at it's current spot, or just completely abandon it. It will take a miracle to make it an actual playable game.

sorry, can't back this game for one reason only - the bait and switch. basically you fell in love with one of the girls and wanna bang her so you grind the hell out of her story line (which is pretty long and twisted and more than often absurd with choices locking you out of various endings), which i'll call the bait, only to finally get into that girl's pants and realize the naked girl in the lewd scenes (which are far in between because of the absurd grind) has nothing to do with the girl you were grinding for, which i'll call the switch. it's a RTX ON / RTX OFF kinda situation. The girls in the story, clothed, are sexy and their tease make your imagination go wild, true RTX ON situation, and when you get to the action part and take their clothes off, it's a RTX OFF situation, a low poly, low res wannabe sketch of the girl you were rooting for. maybe there's a graphic designer for the story and another low skilled graphic designer for lewd scenes, or worse yet, there's 2 graphic designer and they both work on story art while the coder/dev said f*** it, i'm gonna save some money and draw the lewd scene girls myself and yeah, that's how we got in this situation.
tl;dr: grindy game, great sexy and varied characters, good teasing, kinda crazy story and setup, insane grind, terrible letdown when after the long grind you get a naked low res stick man version of the formerly clothed girl.

Fantastic. Loved the picture, volume, and especially the story.
Characters are charming, too.
It would be better if there's movement or voice.
Looking forward to check some new updates.
Thanks for the maker of this game!

Firts of all, I really do like core mechanics and charecters in this game. But it's still raw IMO. At the same time there's significant improvment in a new content. Hope this game ain't gonna be abadoned and at release the game gonna be more attractive in a graphic aspects like an animations and etc. Oh, there's also a low optimization in gallery, hope this gonna be fixed.

Not enough action, too much empty dialogs. Pretty good at the start, but fallback pretty fast, and gets extremely boring. Good idea behind the game, however poor execution. I think that whole 'dating' thing could be done better.

Man, this game was so close. It has the framework of a good game, but it just keeps falling on its face. There's too many problems and not enough payoff. I'd pass on this unless you really like the artwork, are desperate for something to play, and have a lot of time to waste.

-Fully 2D game with very poor performance on low-end hardware.
-2 to 4 frame "animations"
-Tedious. A couple of quests requires you to repeat the exact same task 3,4,7 times. Also, close to 6 hours in and I've only unlocked 3 or 4 sex scenes and another 3 or 4 nude scenes. No vaginal sex yet. Most of the scenes are with 1 character.
-Dialog isn't bad, but it isn't great. At times there's an excessive amount.
-Most of the quests are totally counter-intuitive. You'd never figure it out on your own. Fortunately there's a help system, but instead of hints, the dev opted to just tell you exactly what to do. Still, kind of defeats the purpose of playing a game.

+Artwork is pretty good, it certainly grew on me.
+It's an actual game, not just a visual novel.
+There is some degree of replayability supposedly. Decisions apparently affect the game.

I'm not much of a story guy (that's my roommate's expertise.) Though I do appreciate some decent gameplay.
So this rating (like my others) will be mostly on fapability:
Artwork : Gorgeous
Characters : Love that they're not all carbon copies of each other.
Animation : Pretty basic, still good.
Scenes : I haven't gotten to them all, but so far fantastic.
Fappable: Oh hell yes.
Overall : a well earned 5/5, I hope to see more updates!

There's a lot to like here. Good art, interesting characters, engaging-enough story.

If there's something bad to be said about it it's that the gameplay loop is way too hint-dependent in order to make progress.

(Version Reviewed: v1.29)

Another Chance has the fun premise of a man who has wasted his life getting a second chance to improve it. The story follows him trying to right the wrongs of the past and turn himself from an unlikable loser to a respectable dude. The music is irritating cus there is only one song played on a loop. The art may be one of the best among 2D games. Hand drawn and all the LIs look uniquely good. There aren't many lewds, but it is somewhat of a good thing as it allowed to flesh out the relationship between our MC and all the LIs.

Overall - 8/10 is a fair rating. The devs release an update every month with branching paths that can be played without starting a new save. The game is pretty player friendly due to that. I would recommend this game.

WARNING Before you spend/waste time on this game, this game cannot give you enough sexual arousal for masturbation)


Evaluation based on non-pornographic games would be 4 stars, but the promotional images of this game almost exhaust all its pornographic scenes. If this is not a pornographic game, then it is deceptive.

++Great art.
++Well-designed characters with detailed characterization.
++the main character has the greatest way to make money in renpy games. A lot of games that don't have an important economic system should learn from this one, instead of putting boring grind time skipping jobs.
+Engaging plot and well-written text.

-UI design has minor issues, with unnecessary animations for sliding options. Two exploration modes are redundant.
-While the writing is good, there is too much unnecessary chatter. Idle talk is like an appetizer and should be used sparingly.
-Too few images for the pornographic scenes. The game tries to use language to describe different actions in pornographic scenes, which is not a good idea.(since the art is only 32%, this might be improved during future updates)
-Too few pornographic scenes. As mentioned before, a good pornographic game combines many pornographic scenes with an engaging plot, like cookies with water. This game has too many cookies and too little water.
-Sandbox design and quest system are poorly executed. In a game with a lack of gameplay itself, the branching quest system often leads to repetitive time-wasting for players who do not follow guides, which is very boring. Why not utilize the ability to time travel and allow players to switch choices for a completed quest without wasting time on repetitive actions?


Overall evaluation: A waste of excellent writing and character development. The initially enjoyable detailed writing becomes quickly tedious due to a lack of meaningful rewards. Many quests do not provide motivation for players. I am not sure how those who view it purely as a visual novel would react, but as someone who saw the promotion and expected a pornographic game, I am disappointed. Its like a fancy chocolate box without chocolate. It should be version 0.12, not 1.29

I want to give it 5 stars, but the dialogue honestly just makes me feel like a neckbeard. The girls are great in both character and design, but there's something odd about it that I can't put my finger on that keeps it from being top tier.
Edit: It's probably the way the main character views the girls. The dialogue just makes him seem like a neckbeard, to the extent you can understand how he ruined his previous life by being an unlikeable loser. It'd be one thing if it was just one-offs, but literally every sex scene has him musing about how girls are secretly sluts and all these other thoughts that are honestly somewhat uncomfortable.

Really good art, and decently well-written but that could be depending on the path you choose.

The gameplay is pretty bad though, in a way that gets in the way of enjoying the art. Also I don't think some of these issues can be fixed easily.

The puzzles in this game are like... mid 90's CGI point-and-click level arcane, so you'll *need* to have a walkthrough open. And even then there's a high chance you'll miss out on content from stat checks. Not to mention the game is divided into two major "paths" which essentially halves the content you get.

Also development of this game is pretty glacial, and feels even slower because if the update didn't give content to the path you chose, you just don't get anything new.

TLDR: Download the game, play the path you want, and have cheats at the ready and the gallery unlock mod. It'll be enjoyable but I don't think the game should get full points for that.

Kate is awesome, great start of a hard femdom path. Big hopes for more scenes including MC as sub. There's also Jo and Jacklyn for all femdom lovers. I really like the art style and game mechanics. It's not just skipping the dialogue untill the scenes, you have to actually do something, find some items, connect or exchange them.

TL;DR: If the art was worse this would be a 1 star game.

When I first saw this game pop up some years back I was genuinely excited. Fantastic art, likeable characters (sans the MC) and some good sandbox fun; all I really want from a game like this nowadays. And yet the game has somehow devolved into an absolute slogfest of a game that feels more like a non-ero VN with a fanmade h-patch than an actual erotic game.

Quests that lock you out of other quests with no warning or indication that such would happen for no discernible reason, an esoteric questing system that gives basically 0 real indication on what you're meant to do next and basically requires having a guide open if you want to progress, and approximately way too much story in-between the scenes that are the reason you play the game in the first place.

It's like having to solve a rubik's cube to see content and your reward is a 2 CG blowjob.

Three years in.

Overall, if you're looking for a fun, laid-back sandbox in the vein of Summertime Saga, keep looking.

If you're looking to have 2 different walkthroughs open while constantly reloading saves because you accidentally skipped one of this game's already limited scenes unknowingly or didn't grind a certain stat high enough before going for a scene, this is the game for you. Also, get help.

easily my favourite game on this whole site , the dialogue is amazing and the characters' personalities are loveable and interesting. however a notable downside is the fast pacing of the story with some of the main characters, a slow burn would allow a further development of the relationships you have with the characters that would make the game become so unbearably filled with temptation that EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THE GAME is treasured awaiting any intimate scenes, but other than that, this game in my opinion is the best game on this site, this is mainly because of 2 things: the artwork, which i would argue is the best on this site in how the artist knows how to articulate the characters' anatomical structural positionings, and especially the legs, this artist has literally perfected drawing womens legs, the calf, the thighs and especially the feet, the best example to see this is when the MCs roommate is sitting in the kitchen with her underwear. and the 2nd thing is the dialogue, if you actually give time to read the narration its almost poetry adjacent, and the character' dialogue are so defined in creating such memorable personalities that stick with you. i definitely recommend this game over any other game on this site

I really appreciate the effort they put in to create all these beautiful hand drawn girls, all with unique outfits and designs.

That being said I think the gameplay aspect of this game is messy to say the least. Here's my personal experience:

Right after the introduction part I was given a bunch of quests to follow despite I am only starting to know some of the girls. Half an hour in I am already lost and cannot see which quest I should complete first because apparently some path/choice is locked if you didn't complete a prior quest or didn't have enough stats to unlock certain dialogue option. Then one quest lead me to a H-scene but with dialogues that don't make sense to me because I miss out a quest that is prequel to this one. The quests are part of the story but when you need to do them without any idea of the order then even the story will be ruined for you.

Thus I would suggest the dev make the quest more linear or at least revise the guiding system so that the story-telling is more consistent and player can have more immersive experience. I feel like a game with such high quality visuals and original idea should not be ruined by unthoughtful quest systems.

Impossible to play without a walkthrough and lots of saves. So easy to be locked out of someone and there is no way of knowing where to go. Art is good though and some of the characters are good, needs better direction.

Nice artwork and interesting story. My only gripe would be that there are almost too many choices in the story that can lock you out of paths without you knowing. Wish there were more scenes with the mom!

TLDR: Solid game but not really animated and it has way too much story compared to porn content.

Game could've been a 5/5 but the developers, TimeWizardStudios, are too focused on the story. Also, let me state this game only has 1 animation. Everything else is just CG with 2-3 frames. I wouldn't consider it animated. (BJ pose with mouth on entrance then 2nd frame is a deepthroat). If this game was animated as expected, it'd be a top 3 in the site for me.

The characters and story itself is great but the game is so story-driven that it's excessive. Everything has dialogue which detracts from the player experience and makes interactions or snippets of story content from items feel insignificant or worth missing since you skip everything else.

Ideally, players shouldn't need the in-game walkthrough. Things should be intuitively guided but the game design here is a bit weak. Nonetheless, the in-game guide is a really good system and quite convenient. Too much clicking to get around the map and content.

The game is well-coded and the art is great. Beginning is a slog to get through. Even though you can jump quests and set game/route-changing decisions via the menu, it's still quite annoying knowing that your current run may exclude you from some routes.