Ren'Py - Another Chance [v1.56] [TimeWizardStudios]

I discovered this game a few months ago and was quite surprised by its story. The message it conveys is beautiful, and I really liked most of the characters. If I had to say something negative, it would be:
- It requires too much energy (or time, I think) to interact with each object or move from one point to another; perhaps, depending on the character's stats, it could be improved.
- The gameplay can get a bit boring in the long run, depending on the player. And while there are some pretty fun minigames, you can't replay the entire story (like the DDLC reference, which is cute ), and some side quests may be unnecessary, but for me, the characters make it worthwhile.
- There should be an option to return home or to other places faster.
- It also has some bugs that often occur when trying to complete quests at the same time as others, and their schedules overlap (Season 2).
- If the character wants to improve as a person and truly wants to change, kissing another girl at that moment should make them feel bad. Are there any such cases? Yes, but it seems like this is his first time with any of the girls, or even his only romance, as sometimes it seems inevitable to have a good time or help someone without having sex with her.
Despite all these bugs and frustrating moments, I know the love they put into the game, so I hope the creators of this beautiful game improve in the future, because they're quite fixable.

P.S.: I read some criticisms about Maya's character in Season 2. I found them a bit exaggerated, but I guess they're a little annoying because her relationship with several of the game's missions was so forced that by the end of each mission, she wasn't as necessary as she seemed. However, I find the character fun and quirky.

This is a fun game, with an interesting story with the tropes of loser travelling back to his school days and redoing his life. The love interests are very interesting, excuse the redundancy, and the plot is interesting too even without the porn.
The art is okay to great, characters have good design and story, I enjoy the story more than the sex scenes sometimes. Good music. The sex scenes are hot and nice material, they feel rewarding to get.
While the game has its moments, the gallery system is fucking clunky and frustrating. Personally I don't like the sex scenes of Kate. Otherwise nice game, above average.

You can tell that this is the one of the most high effort/quality games on here, but it does have some serious flaws.

The game really tries to straddle the line between self-aware/facetious writing and having some serious story beats, which can cause a bit of emotional whiplash (Lindsey story!?). But I have to give it to them that I am interested in seeing where the mystery goes.

The game is A LOT of clicking though... I feel like it should not take as long as it does to sift through this game. Like, how do they come up with some of these quests...

It's nice that they have a quest guide: I would not even imagine playing the game without it

I don't know man this game feels weird, the tempo is weird I got lots of quests with no real way to solve them other than follow blindly the guide which isn't really a good way to play a game... I don't see a reliable way to increase stats other than random conversations and books you find lying around the school...

The whole "you need to finish this quest and this other and this other before you can do this one quest" is kind tiring, characters should have their own arcs and maybe some quests could or should intertwine but this is just a weird way to play.

I don't know I love this dating sim types of games with sandboxy themes but the whole deal is weird like even in the middle of quests you just jump in the bus and takes you home because you need to check your computer

While the game has its moments, the gallery system is clunky and frustrating, it's hard to tell what you've unlocked or missed. The recent shift toward heavy masochistic content feels forced and may turn off players who enjoyed the earlier tone.

Do you remember golden age of graphical adventure's games? you konw, really popular for pc in the 90's. Well, this games is like one of them, which implies that:

• Some events are trigger by picking random objects
• There are dreamlogic puzzles
• Paths are mutually excluse, sometimes temporarily, sometimes don't and can be block if you star to many at the same time
• There is a tone of backtracking

Fortunately, it also include an asist mode that let you focus on character quest and solving puzzles. And a gallery of chapters in the main menu where it's possible to explore older paths.
Regarding to the girls, the charaters are, preatty, well animated and for the most part, interesting. Actually the stories are quite good so they could hook you even if you aren't a fan of the gameplay.

For me is clear 5 stars even if i get why some of you prefer something more fast with less clicking and backtraking. However, I grow up playing this kind of stuff as a toddler and in elemetary school with my old Windows 98-Me PC, and quest like this, seem normal

Lots of annoying railroading, drawn-out quests and a general lack of choices hurt the game pretty bad, but the characters and the story are, well, gripping. I wanted to see where things were going, I want to know more about the stuff going on in the world, I want to see how these characters and their relationships change with time and the MC's impact. That alone makes it a pretty good game, and while the ero scenes tend to drag a bit the art is good and the writing is too, generally.
The MC is a bit annoying though- complains about being short and unwanted and so on, but he towers over all the other characters in scenes, sports abs and a massive cock, and is a consumate expert in fucking, fingering and fellatio. It doesn't really add up. With some relatively minimal effort (mostly picking up books) at the beginning, he can pretty easily become a Gary Stu with the necessary charisma, intellect and strength to basically do whatever, and whoever.

It's a fun quest game, with an interesting story about a waste of oxygen travelling back to his school days, and redoing his life. The love interests are diverse enough to please everyone, and the plot is interesting even without the porn.

The art is okay; it isn't GOAT but it's good. Ditto the music. The sex scenes are nice fap material, and they feel rewarding to get. As of 1.52 some characters have no sex scenes yet.

There's a gallery; the interface is a mess (hint: press PgDown), but it allows you to rewatch some scenes. The game also allows you to start from any chapter, in case you don't want to redo the whole thing after update.

So overall 4/5 - not perfect, but good. I recommend giving it a try.

Thought this game was promising in terms of art and story but after enough time playing it it just draws out into a complete fucking slog and a boring clickfest. Completely unplayable without the built-in walkthrough and still annoying with it on.

The crafting system is pretty unique for a porn game but it literally devolves into "You combine Stick with Stick to make Two Sticks", "You combined Stick with Two Sticks to make Three Sticks", "You combine Spoon with Spice to make Spoonful of Spice", etc.

It's so confusing because the game is so pretty and polished and fleshed out in the UI and design elements, but the UX is just abysmal. Completely disrespectful of your time.

They even managed to make the gallery unfun - once you scroll down to find a scene and play it, you have to scroll all the way down again to hunt for the next one. No page numbers or anything, every scene is just in a straight line you have to scroll through from the top.

Baffling.

Arts great, characters are very interesting and i find myself enjoying the story more than the sex scenes all aside from Kate and the nurse.Kate is genuinely one of the worst characters in any game on this site. Saw someone talking about adding cucking to her route and oh boy would that turn so many people away from this game. Wouldn't listen to that guy. Though a lot of the missions are fetch quests which got old rather quickly. Other than that the story was really good and the humor is some of the best.

Tldr: Kate's diabolical femdom path + art heavily carry this game and it's worth playing just for that if nothing else.

As with all sandbox games, the biggest drawback is that there's a lot of clicking around and story drag. That said, if you use the console for stat edits and fast mode, the grind can be somewhat reduced. Issues around the sandbox are certainly an annoyance, but it's also not as bad as some other reviews make it seem. You can mostly just find your flow to quickly grind through it if you understand the program. I would however appreciate making some of the quests optional, like the beaver thing.

There are however 2 extemely great redeeming factors.

First one is of course the art. I don't have a single bad thing to say about that. It is just great. Body proportions, diverse looking characters, very fun style. Just awesome.

The second one is Kate's subplot.

Arguably one of the best femdom scenes and extremely mean girl characters in any game. Writing and drawing her has been an absolute masterpiece and everytime she has screen time, the game instantly goes from pretty mid to 100/100. Even if it's her with the other girls, she elevates their story lines from boring to fun.

Frankly I play it just for her stuff. If the game was slightly more streamlined and had a lot more Kate's content in it, it would be one of the best ones out there. Her storyline just carries the game like a bulldozer. While (almost) all other characters kinda get blurred into the background.

I hope the devs never mellow out her femdom path. It's special precisely because she's so diabolical and leaning more into that archetype always catapults the game into greatness.

I give 4 stars because I feel like her story has been sidelined lately and for reasons stated above that makes the whole game a bit less fun.

I'll definitely jump to support the game and revisit this when she has dedicated updates but I'll basically ignore it when not and wait.

Good luck with the development!

v1.47
The protagonist (nameable) is a regretful loser that timeslips back to his past self in highschool. There's also some lowkey conspiracy elements that something else is going on behind the scenes in his time traveling.

I'd say the art was the best thing about the game, but the gameplay was rather tedious.

The quest system doesn't really indicate any particular order beyond indicating when things are blocked by other routes so you may be in the middle of one when the options indicate alternatives if you should you have done other quests first. I suppose this could contribute to replayability, but the gameplay is also kind of annoying in that it's tons of fetch quests and clicking through an excessive number of items. There's a "Fast" mode that says it will automatically perform the default actions for you, but I didn't try that.

The other complaint I had was that the voice of the protagonist (not an audible one, but rather his narration) was incredibly cringy to me and the sexual content isn't signaled at all. Kinks just happen and the narrator will happily talk about how tasty licking assholes and feet is or whatever is happening. My big complaint in VNs is if the narrator starts talking about how hot/sexy things are, I get grossed out. YMMV.

TL;DR: Nice art, annoying clicking, gross descriptions.

This game has great art and probably some of the most unique game structure with how the choices you make build off each other. Some of the first choices you make has long reaching effects. That and the choices are more then do you want to bang this girl or not. (It still is to some extent but at least the choice has more impact then skip every sex scene with x character.

The girls are also reasonably different each other and let me just say the anal scene where Isabelle was clearly not enjoying it was perhaps one of the most unique scene I ever came across. While the are just your cookie cutter sex scenes there are also scenes like this which really help differentiate the game.

+ Really good game.
+ You had a lot to do.
- How can I save my save file game for the lord of god. (Port yeah)
+ Nice variation of Girls and Styles.
+ Humor.
+ Creativity with the Environment.
+ HUD, Menus looks cool I don't know how to explain but It is.
+ X-ray filter a nice Easter Egg .
+ An option to see Next quests a Main guide to explore that is awesome, finally!
Will I replay It again?...mmh we'll see.

I normally can't get into the story of these porn games but I love this one. There's a lot of different choices you can choose that make the game very replayable. I can't wait for more to be released, love this game.

The game is so interesting. I sit here writing this review 5:40 in the morning after having been up all night playing it. The story just sucked me in and to be honest I'd say the game needs a horror tag.

There's so much branching story (it seems like to me anyways) that I keep second guessing my choices, wondering what changes what. And I haven't even finished the game yet.

I can't jerk off even if the art gets better further into the game, there's a huge mystery here with horrifying implications! It's a horror mystery more than an erotic game. Even in the situations I should be finding extremely arousing, I can't enjoy the porn because my mind's still stuck on the mystery!

I'm so close to just skipping the porn so I can get back to solving the mystery. Which is insane to me because this -is- a porn game, with lots of it with hot scenarios!

The story is making me question if I'm crazy or the world the story takes place in is crazy. Huge dramatic things happen, only thing I can say without spoilers, and to me they're absolutely -devastating-, things that would consume my every waking moment thinking about trying to figure out. But the characters move on seemingly so easy! Perhaps it's good storytelling, people rationalising things and finding simple solutions, but to me it would drive me nuts.

Okay fine, the characters in the story hasn't seen the things I have, but the very fact the main character can continue on without going mad at all the horrific implications of what's going on... Jesus, it makes my head spin, in a great way, a horrific way, an intriguing way and I just want more. It has completely entranced me.

TLDR: Story is FANTASTIC.

Porn okay, very erotic situations but mediocre art (which to be fair improves slightly throughout the game, referring to the porn scenes.).

OLD ADVENTURE GAME LEVELS OF PUZZLES, don't bother trying to solve puzzles yourself. You'll go mad wasting your time trying ridiculous combinations.

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IT NEEDS A HORROR TAG, the implications of what happens in the story is terrifying.

I came for the porn, stayed for the story, started ignoring the porn to get more of the story. I need more! Don't start this game up if you're looking for a quick wank.

Sure, this game has problems. It's hard to play without using the tips.
But I love the characters. I love the variety of interactions for the protagonist. I love the art.
All in all, I just genuinely enjoy it and look forward to every update.

Imagine you go to a five-star restaurant. You take one look at the menu, and you know they've got to have the juiciest steak in town. So you ask the nice waitress for one of their pristine steaks. She leaves and then quickly returns to inform you that the chef says in order to actually eat the steak, first you need to go do the dishes, clean the tables, change the lightbulbs, chase the wild ostrich out of the kitchen, and lick the shoes of every customer there; then, and ONLY then, will the chef give you a single bite of steak. Oh, and you have to pay for all of this in advance, by the way.

That is Another Chance.

It's quite ironic how Another Chance's plot kind of revolves around the concept of time, because this entire game is a gigantic waste of it.

What's that? You want to just skip all the bullshit and talk to the LI's and progress their routes? Nah, screw that. Why don't you go chase a beaver around for another five minutes? Isn't that way more fun?

This game should be the primary example as to why (most) adult games with sandbox simply don't work. You spend more time fucking around hiding in vents, growing plants, and sending letters in cardboard boxes than actually spending valuable time with the girls or getting to see sex scenes. It's for this very reason that the game has been in development for so long. It's a mile wide and an inch deep.

And don't even get me started on the branching paths. The game does have an in-game walkthrough for quests, but the game tells you jack shit about what quest affects another and what order you should progress them in, what secrets you need to find in the sandbox, or which choices actually matter in the grand scheme of things. Playing this game without a walkthrough is a death sentence, and you WILL have to play through the game multiple times to unlock everything; which, again, wouldn't be so bad if the gameplay wasn't so mind-numbingly boring.

The only reason Another Chance doesn't get a one-star is because the art is fantastic and the writing itself is pretty solid (ignoring all the lazy time-wasting bullshit, of course). I wouldn't recommend playing this until someone makes a walkthrough mod that actually tells you everything you need to know, but even then, still be prepared for a lot of time-wasting bullshit.

Buggy. get soft locked a lot. I didn't enjoy my time. the quest can be a bit confusing without pointer and there is an ingame guide for that. but it's a mess. you don't know which quests is which by the end and the game can end up bugged out.. in my case, the guide only leads to buggy mess.

Good characters, a lot of variety, very enjoyable and good for playing if you are looking for something different. I am looking foward for more content to be released , and I am hoping the devs will keep the good work they are doing with this game. Hope you guys aso enjoy the game as much as I enoyed it.