VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Once in a Lifetime [v1.0] [Caribdis]

It's weird, it's funny and it works.

The story feels well done, if, as I said, weird at times.
Models are good, textures are as well.
There are multiple endings, which is a bonus, but we all know everyone aims for the harem ending.

Man, another engaging and memorable story wrapped up in the guise of a sex game.

First off, whatever models they use for this game ( the same as in Harem Hotel ) are the absolute best. I love the eyes and lips, the bodies and legs....just the sexiest models I've seen in a game.

Thankfully most of the characters are awesome as well, so it's not just eye candy. Some of the personalities do seem shallow and unfinished, but overall everyone has their quirks and I don't see anyone playing it NOT finding a favorite 'waifu' candidate among the cast ( mine's Iris ).

The only place the game lacks is in the audio department. Few musical tracks, few sound effects...so few, in fact, that when you suddenly get some audio it's jarring and weird. Still, this is a minor complaint, the game is still fully enjoyable without.

Lastly the story....I've played quite a few really good VN stories in the past few months, but none of them actually finished, so it was quite nice to get a full conclusion to a story that I was so heavily invested in. The MC is a bit of a moron, but the girls are all great and help the story of occult intrigue flow along nicely. The comedy is also there and timed great, resulting in quite a lot of laughs, especially with the models and their fantastic expressive faces.
Overall this is a great game, and definitely worth playing for people who like their porn to have a storyline.

Not perfect, but great otherwise. The great unique character art style, even the extra characters. Animations are great. The story is what does it for me though. Felt a bit short. I wouldn't have minded if there was more story with the relationships to explore. Either way, good stuff.

Just wow overall the game was engaging and these scenes where fantastic, usually a porn game just feels like a porn game but this game if you did everything correct, just feels so satisfying at the end, good job with the story and everything, and the funny twist with some characters was well appreciated as well, overall i give this a 9/10.

Came for the porn stayed for the plot. Honestly there were some situation of which I wasn't so much fond of. For example some emotional manipulation of the main actor. But in overall I started to like every single dateable character. They had all lovely personalities.

Plus all those enjoyable comicly relief situation. It was an amazing experience. It took me around 18 hours to finish the game.

I just personally wish to know how it played out at the end of my harem run.

My review doesn't contribute anything to this game. It's just that great of a game and you'll get sucked in right away. It took a few weeks to complete and I regret nothing. Great models, humor, story, sex scenes, and more. This VN is a "Must play".

One of the classics in my mind, actually one of the first games of this type that I played through and got me into all this. Good art, a story that's got some actual substance to it, not much more that you could want in a game like this.

10/10 on the character model, I fell in love with the texture, smoothness, and overall design of each character. I wish there were more games that utilize the honey select model and design them to be this slick! I can't wait to play eterneum!

8/10 story overall, its engaging and fun to see things unfolded

10/10 on the steamy scene, I even search some of the scenes online, and luckily you guys upload it to P*, than you!

9/10 on the character personality, they're unique in every way

I played this game after being blown away with the quality of Eternum so far, and this one is right up there in quality as well!

The sex scenes were great, but the story and characters really sucked you in! The harem ending was so fucking wholesome!

A story as old as time with cults, magic, and sex. Story seems cliche but the characters really made it quite enjoyable. Animated scenes are amazing and smooth unlike your usual slideshow renpy games. Sound design was meh, 2/3rd of the scenes that I encountered had no sound. All in all a good game, no grinding, amazing scenes, cliche but good story. Would Recommend.

I really liked this game. The MC was top. no unnecessary drama no bullshit.
Stabby Mike was my favourite character. ( I hope the make a guest appearance in Eternum)
The animations are great. And the story was alright as well. I would have loved if the game would had been longer.

I can recommend this game a lot.

I wasn't 100% sure on this game as I tend to prefer more realistic looking face models, but it turns out this game is fantastic. Has an easy to follow story, great characters, subtle humor, well built sexual tension and lewd scenes. Well worth playing.

Good story and not too long, which was a plus for me. The animation was great and the style worked with the story. I'm a fan of harem style stories, but most tend to be pretty confusing, this one was not.

this game along with grand blue (manga) is what I've laughed the most in recent years, it's just hilarious, despite having finished this game a long time ago I had never given it a review, but it's about time, this game For me it's more than porn, it's a great experience, it's fun, it has lovable characters (I love the mc sisters and stabby mike), hot sex scenes, the models of the girls are great, this game is just perfect for me It has everything I'm looking for in this kind of game, something light, fun, kinky but still wholosome, it's just great. And if I have to say something that I don't like, it would be that the ending felt a bit rushed, months ago I read that the dev could make an extra episode for the game in the future, I know that right now it's focused on Eternum, but I would be great in the future to see a little more of these characters

I've been playing various games here on F95Zone for the better part of a few years. For the past few years I have been searching, without realizing it. That was until I stumbled on this game, or should I say creator. Caribdis might actually be a mage because this game was magic. The second I tried it I was in love. The writing is well done compared to so many game, such that I came to care about the characters. While many creators tend to start losing steam towards the end of the game and the plot falls through, I can honestly say this one held up from beginning to end.

Caribdis I don't know what you did before this game but you have found your calling. I look forward to the next game and hopefully a long career of these hits.

Great VN Really enjoyed playing threw it loved all the characters and their development loved the plot it had lots of funny moments especially with stabs mike.
10/10 game.
Defiantly would recommended anyone who's looking for a good VN to play this one.

One of the best novels I've ever seen. great plot, a compelling story full of twists, a dash of horror, comedy, supernatural and romance. I'm a fan of harem stories and so for me it was a full plate. and the backstories were really good.

History 10/10
sex scenes 10/10
Effect 10/10
layout 10/10

I really liked your work I will be following the current one.

One of the best VN on this site.

Graphics: Good

Story: Better than average. Serves the purpose of the game well.

Con: 2 girls go behind the MC back and fuck. This was completely unnecessarily and it was completely opposite of one of those characters.

Multiple NTR endings not being labeled properly.

Some characters also fight their love wayy too much for the MC.

Story:
Interesting, a few twists were predictable, but they were done in such a way you were excited for them when you realized. Overall 9/10.

Renders:
Honey Select based, 10/10.

Sound:
Great Sounds, a bit quiet at times, but not a problem. 8/10

Playability & Performance:
It's a Ren'Py game so...

Bugs:
None.

Animations:
Clean. Decently smooth, but some are clearly 1.5x speed rather than just "speeding up". 8/10

Grammar:
Maybe 1 or 2 slight errors, but nothing else. 10/10

Amount of content:
Took around 8 hours to kinda speed through it. A normal play might be ~10 hours and a complete run of all routes would likely be ~20-30 hours (depending on how you save).

I know i am the odd rater here with everybody giving high ratings but sorry i did not like the game. I do not doubt alot of effort spent but imho it is short in many aspects. First, the main guy is a beta. i know many people like beta MC but i don't. If there is a choice system in a game, correct answer should not always be the soft one i. e the girl is there
a. fuck her
b .kiss her

if you choose fuck her you are done. that kind of system ultimately creates an illusion of choice which there is not. you have to be the good guy to be able to do anything in this game. this is the entire premise of the game. honestly, i found it extremely boring, a copy of 90s japanese eroges.

sex scenes are very mild and mostly vanilla, appears to be designed by a 16 year old. graphics are also subpar