HTML - Just One More Chance [v0.72] [Lotrum]

5 stars because it really grows on you.

It's an HTML rogue like harem game. As you "progress" and increase your stats permanently through the loop mechanisms, you revisit (let's not lie, re-fuck) girls you've met in previous runs with new dialogues, new options and new paths unlocking.

I'm taking the time to write this review to point out how good the rogue like aspect is. The game has a ton of fairly good scenes by porn game standards and does a great job at teasing / hinting that multiple other stages of those scene are left to unlock. There's an achievement system tracking that prevent you from blindly guessing what's left to be done (if you're not into that, you can turn those hints off) along with "relevant" rewards for each accomplishment. If you managed to fully complete a scene with some popular girl for example, all of your future runs will have start with a permanent popularity boost.

You do have to grind as in most HTML games, but you eventually reach a point where you have so many girls available that you can basically progress by playing through new scene variations instead of simply repeating the same "best" option over and over as nearly all other HTML games force you to.

On the downside, the first runs were quite boring and I nearly gave up on the game because of that. So you do have some initial less enjoyable loops where you can't do much and most girls you meet are hostile, but there's a point where the rogue like system really starts to shine and it gets really good.

So probably 4/5 stars at most for the very early stuff, but easily 6/5 for the overall creativity.

v0.58

I'm reviewing this title with the context of it being a real-porn HTML game somewhat in-mind. If you've played a few real-porn HTML games, you know they're often hot garbage. This game is not; Honestly, this is probably a leading title in that category. However, I am also somewhat bearing in mind that this platform (F95) lumps template-based HTML games like this on the same scoring system as games built from the ground up in complex 3D engines. So, with all those contexts somewhat in mind, I'd say this game is better than average (3 stars), but I think I'd call it worse than good (4 stars). I'm teetering more in the good direction, and so I'll give it 4 stars.

This game is a rouge-like style visual novel. You play somewhat of a loser in his early college days. You're just a dude and you'd like to get laid. Mechanics-wise, you have various stats that determine your ability to do different things. To name a few: strength, money, intelligence, popularity, sexual experience. Almost everything you do impacts these stats, usually positively. After a certain number of in-game days, you reset back to the beginning.

When you reset, a couple things happen.

1. Firstly, the max value of each of your stats is reviewed to possibly increase your starting value of said stats for your next run. Ex: say you start with 10 strength and you end with 40 strength. 50% of 40 is 20, which is greater than your original 10, so the game sets your new starting value for every play-through going forward to 20 (unless you increase it again in future).
2. Secondly, you are allowed to spend experience points for certain perks. Experience points are gained by doing cool things, like kissing the popular girl, or fucking 5 girls in the ass, or something. These points can be spent on a few different things. One, for example, is an increase to the % multiplier used to define your stats (that 50% I mentioned in item 1, can be increased to say 70%). Another is unique interactions with girls at certain events in future play-throughs.

All in all, this results in you being more capable, and so your second play through should be more flexible than your first. And your third more than your second, so on, so forth. There are too many things to do to accomplish in just a few play-throughs, and this mechanic allows you to do more and more things. You won't feel starved for content - there are a lot of things you can do with level-1 stats, and a good amount of things that need level-9000 level stats.

This mostly works. I played on the lowest "difficulty setting". Difficulty isn't the right word; Nothing about this game will EVER be difficult - I'm going to refer to this as the "Tedium setting" from here on out because this is a more accurate word. I played on the lowest tedium setting, which granted me faster gains in stats and less stringent starting conditions. Honestly, this was just BARELY tolerable. I can't imagine playing on medium or high tedium settings; rather blow my brains out. However, maybe some players like tedious gameplay? If so, more power too them. The dev is probably trying to incentivize or reward players who give money to make things easier for them, but man... I really think the game could do with one more lower tedium setting. This is an HTML game built in the engine every other one is, so browser-based command line changes should work. I never felt like I NEEDED to do this, so I guess that's something. Like I said, it's just BARELY tolerable. A better way to incentivize paying players might be allowing them to instantly jump into events they haven't unlocked yet with max stats... idk.

So, this brings me to the writing and H content. They're fine. I always feel somewhat disconnected in games like this, blowing through dialog, only reading a third of it. It's a lot of text. It's probably the right amount; too little and the game looks lazy, too much and it feels like an impossible slog. It's just a symptom of the engine, imo. And then the H content - again, fine. Good clip choices, audio is present. As far as real-porn goes, this is fine.

So, all in all, yeah it's probably at least worth a play. For me it's a 3.5 on the general scale, but a very good real-porn HTML game. You hopefully know what you're getting into for HTML games; if you're in the mood for one, this is a good pick.

If you like the roguelike genre, this game is really good. Gameplay loop was very fun, had a good challenge curve to it without being rage inducing.

Really fantastic twine game, sunk some really good time into it. I only have a few admittedly bias suggestions.

It would be nice to have impregnation in the game, where you got stats on if you got any of the girls pregnant in a run. I know this is my personal.selfosh kink but a man can dream.

And if the potential plot lines of characters intertwined a bit. What I mean is a path for one character shifts based off choices with others. So replaying also had you increase stats, but also had you finagaling how to have girls lines interact with each other past just threesomes.

Loved the game as it is now V0.55.

It is a NSFW twine based rogue like. The game play loop feels really satisfying and well done once you get going. At first you will be a weakling loser who has to get out of the bottom and it is up to you how you choose to do that. You can try different strategies to get your stats up out of the gate (Although a stamina based approach seems easiest to me).

Definitely one of the best Twine based games i've played.

Also can i say good job on getting all the different pictures together - it's not easy choosing a good set to go with a storyline!

Great game, one of the best HTML real porn games I've seen. A bit grindy, but it does get better as you play. Really looking forward to seeing what all gets added to the game. Best of luck to the dev!

(5/7) Pretty good time loop game with a reasonable amount of content.

You play as a guy looping through the same simulation, being able to upgrade your stats in the simulation and carry over some stats over to new loops. You need some minimum amount of stats to see the sex scenes and once you have achieved some sex success you get some permanent bonuses on the next loops.

It's a nice game loop which is tying sex scenes to the stat grinding gameplay in an engaging feedback loop. If you know the game well you can really get quite good at going from zero to sex god. It's actually quite fun on that front as well as a good variety of sex scenes to enjoy.

The game is already quite good as it is, but hopefully more content would be added in the future.

Review for version 0.53

Outstanding game.

The models are good and not overused in other games, they always match perfectly with the scene, so much that the dialogue between characters often happens in the video.

The most impressive thing about the game is it's structure, it's a rogue like, and the achievements system makes every run easier than the previous one, it is however perfectly paced.

What this structure creates is an easing of the feeling of grind, because it actually gives sense to the presence of grind in the game.

The game that lead me to this site in the first place.

While I'm personally less of a fan of the rogue-like aspect of the game. (In the sense of losing a chunk of your progress and essentially replaying certain parts of the game again and again). It basically scrachted all the needs I had or didn't know I had for a porn game.

In particular the game part of that label is executed here better than anywhere on this platform. It is an actual somewhat decent rpg sandbox sim where grinding doesn't feel too bad, and you get rewarded with new scenes often enough to never bore you. The first time I played this game it was version 0.33 so all of the newly added girls and paths have only further enriched what had already felt enough for my taste (there might even be a danger of content bloat in the long run!).

The scenes are well made and should probably be the gold standard of most real-porn games. Instead of "interactivity" it's a written scene where you have to scroll down, basically minimizing the amount of clicking you have to do. The scenes change depending on your sex stats further enriching the replay possibilities.

In the end all of my negatives are entirely my own taste. While the dev chose these girls I don't find the majority of them particularly attractive and while I don't like the roguelike aspect many others do.
What I really don't like is the usage of AI here which mostly comes down to many of the girls not having the appropriate pictures or scenes for everyday life. While this is an okayish band-aid often times the AI version looks nothing the original. This is particularly confusing in the tutorial. Furthermore scenes take weirdly assymetric chunks of your current time sometimes leading to me spam clicking the "wait 5 minutes" button simply because it's suboptimal to wait for an hour.

Easy 5/5.

Don't let the changelogs trick you into thinking there's not much content continously being added, the updates contains more than one can divulge from them. One will always want more, but even two small updates added decent enough replayability to an already great game.

The actual porn is more or less perfection.

The sandbox is great, though (much) farther down the line it'd be nice to have even more variables through general allignment. Already kind of there with Love/Corruption, but would love to see that fleshed out even more further down the line.

Just a very great game, can't find anything to complain about for what it is.

Review as of 0.47: Loved this one. A must-play for any sandbox fan.

The game mechanic and story uses a time loop concept. You move around the sandbox and build your stats and reputation and try to discover scenes like any sandbox, but have a finite number of days before the loop resets and you have to "start over". When restarting, you get to purchase persistent upgrades using XP from achievements unlocked during the run. These make your next run faster/easier and access content that was out of reach initially. The game is really well paced in my opinion, and I felt like I was seeing scenes at a good pace the whole way through, and each loop especially early on allowed me to explore in a slightly different direction to keep things fresh. It's a bit slow at the start - as it totally should be for a story where you're a fat virgin. By the end though, you'll be swimming in scenes and can pretty much do everything/everyone in a single run (with a few exceptions where certain choices are mutually exclusive).

The game UI has a nice achievement list you can refer to as you start to narrow in on things in later loops. I personally didn't bother doing all of them, as additional loops got a bit tedious once I'd seen 99% of the content already. There's a literal ton of hot content, and it's fairly well written to boot. What's not to like? Would have liked to have seen more group and orgy content. Maybe in later updates? Game obviously uses real porn though, so certain scenes may simply not exist (without using a different porn girl). I also appreciated the lack of location bloat, somewhat endemic to the genre (dev puts them in & never does anything with them). The game only has 5-6 locations, so you don't need a million clicks to get anywhere. It's usually one click and you're there.

So once more in closing: A must play for any sandbox fan.

Easily one of the best real porn html games on this site. Large amount of content and nice selection of actors. The game is quite addicting, I sunk a lot of hours into it. If you enjoy a (reasonable imo) grind, you will really like this one.

Great game, ive put quite a few hours into it. Its nice they added a difficulty, because the grind before was a little harsh. But its much better now. One of the best html games ive played thus far. Still have stuff to unlock and see.

great game. The Groundhog day aspect of the game is well done, interesting to see how a playthrough evolves from not even getting to second base with a girl to basically going all the way on the third meeting because your starting stats went nuts. I like that I can decide what I want to increase for the next playthrough.

Good content, well put dialogues and raunchy scenes, not much cringe. Seeing all Content would take a lot of time, I played it for several hours and got like 90-95%, you can see via the achievements what you're missing. Obviously at some point you know what happens so its no surprise anymore, but since scenes change a bit depending on how good the stats are it stays interesting.

4.5/5 - I'll round up because of the good execution and novel concept.

Adding a bit more bad boy/evil routes would be interesting for me too

Live die repeat for porn. content is already good.
Very worth playing throught a"few" times for various options and bonuses . Hoping for a full evil route someday? given the high/monthly frequency of updates it may well happen. (a bit of blackmail and compensated "dating" is available already.)
Writing is good and follow the scenes which are of acceptable length (not the 5s bull).
well worth playing and following maybe support if u can, (I would be sad finding this project abandonned some day.)

I tend to be partial to indie porn games that emphasize gameplay, so potential players of Just One More Chance who want every game to be a ren'py visual novel should take my review with a grain of salt.

Just One More Chance is one of the most ambitiously new takes on life sim porn games that I've seen in quite some time. It combines the following genres: Groundhog Day, immersive life sim, roguelike, stat builder, dating sim; and does so in a way that I actually find very fun. The backstory is pretty simple: the main character is a severely overweight loser whose life has gone downhill, who got selected by a shady sci-fi company to relive a simulation of his first couple weeks of college with the ability to make different choices in that simulation. The result is a roguelike stat-building dating sim, where each time you finish a loop you take some prestige currency (experience), achievement bonuses, and a portion of your stats from the previous loop, and run through it again trying to see more stuff and 'get further' in various ways.

While this style gameplay had the potential to get boring quickly, seeing the same things over and over again; the dev has worked hard to make the sex scenes well-written, diverse, and give the player a lot of romantic options to explore. Since achievements give gameplay bonuses, there's also an in-game incentive to see the range of sex scenes rather than just grinding out experience through just having lots of sex and making money (which you can also do, if you prefer). One especially smart move on the developer's part is the virginity system, which is basically just granting a unique achievement when the main character loses his virginity in a particular loop to a girl he hasn't lost his virginity to in previous loops. You can only get one virginity achievement per loop, and while there are some 'easy' girls, it's often a challenge to find a way to make sure you only have sex with a particular harder girl first, resulting in some more variation on gameplay strategies depending on who you want the main character to bone first than if your goal was just to have as much sex and make as much money as possible per loop. There are lots of different girls to screw, with different body types and fetishes and preferences, so there's a lot of variety to what sex you'll see in the game.

That being said, the game isn't perfect. While grinding is very slow and ineffective in the beginning, once you get your money-making rolling via freelancing it becomes very easy to get massive amounts of experience per run. This is somewhat offset by achievements granting unique bonuses, but it still trivializes the major prestige currency of the game once you figure out how to maximize your coding and intelligence at the start. Diminishing returns might be a smart change here. The UI is rather simple, the stats are a little opaque (stress, for example, seems to do a bunch of things but not always consistently), and with a few exceptions I tend to find the girls' relationships with the main character more or less play out the same way once he builds up his stats. It also wasn't my favorite thing when Natasha's backstory was changed, but Patreon be Patreon after all. Being able to change up some relationships or have characters more related to the main character's backstory might be nice. It also might be interesting if the 'outside the Animus' scenes between runs had some things to unlock too.

Still, Just Once More Chance is fun, it's sexy, the dev is clearly putting a lot of effort into improving this game with frequent and regular updates, and I highly recommend anyone who finds this type of game potentially interesting to give it a look. I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could, but I think given its uniqueness, it makes sense to round the score up to five rather than down to four.

TLDR As others have said, the core gameplay loop is novel and engaging, but there's not quite enough sexual content to hold the player for more than a few hours. Give it a shot, but as of v0.45, don't get infatuated with any of the characters because there isn't much to see.

Minor spoilers. The moment the game really clicked for me was when I got to a point where I was getting it on with a girl and had the choice to ignore her earlier request to not stick it in. She was enthusiastic during sex, but was very upset afterwards. In a normal VN, this is about the point where I'd sigh and reload, but due to the looping mechanic present here, it... doesn't really matter. She can be pissed all she wants; in two days the whole world resets, but I keep a permanent bonus for sleeping with her for the first time.

I think that this is the place that this game could really benefit from expanding. There are already "routes" for blackmail or love vs. corruption plotlines, but really diving into these and giving more opportunities to purposefully bomb relationships etc. for the sake of alternate scenes and achievements fits very well with the core gameplay. It's a neat way to get around the problem some games have with locking sex content behind "bad ends" or otherwise counterintuitive player behavior that the actual gameplay disincentivizes.

Besides that though, just having more sexual content and "story" for characters would go a long ways to solidifying the game as a community classic.

I enjoyed what another reviewer called the "snowball" meta-mechanics of JOMC than any of the actual content. Each game loop is fairly short (at least to start with), a week with just a couple of events possible each day. However, once you start getting achievements, you can advance more quickly in the loop: get farther with some quest-lines, unlock some new ones, and milk quest-lines you've previously completed for resources. A few loops in, the experience peaks and you, the player, get max-amusement out of dancing your way through a couple of weeks seducing almost everyone you see. Then the metagame enters a plateau of seemingly endless grind if you want to get the last few achievements/events.

The characters written are reasonably distinctly: the mean girl, the brain, the fangirl, the jock, the working girl, etc. However, most of the models don't really have a "fresh-faced college gal" look, and some of them are just flatly off-putting. None of the in-game mechanics are much deeper than a stat check against your snowballed math-skill to see if you can tutor and therefore get a lewd scene from someone.

I think that the author created something innovative and interesting here. But it could definitely be better implemented with a more engaging core game loop, framing story, and model/scene choices, and a better balanced end-metagame.

Great story with a gameplay loop that feels progressive instead of repetitive. And the consistent updates are wonderful! There doesn't seem to be too many different choice, which bodes well for the development complexity. I hope to see more from this developer as he continues to grow and develop.

As a fan of real porn games, I can totally recommend this game. The models are chosen well and the scenes are good.

Story is simple enough, but well written and the girls are somewhat stereotype, but I guess making it more realistic would cut off the sex scenes for many hours. The loop concept is a good solution to give you some sense of progress and this will keep you playing for a while.

Since it is a text based game, developing your character necessarily includes some grind, but imo it's not too bad and can be quickly reduced. If you want to complain about that, you can also complain about walking to school or doing sports is unnecessary grind and demand a better concept reaching your goals from [god, buddha, matrix coders or whatever you deem appropriate].

I hope the devs keep up their good work and give the later loops some more variety and develop the characters a bit more.