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

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

hands down one of the best games I've seen on this site and just in general too, the storyline is fabulous, the animation is amazing and the humour is goated. Phenomenal work overall, Played eternum too and somehow THATS EVEN BETTER, idk how you managed to top this masterpiece.Best of luck fr all your games, i cant wait to play them!

This game does many things correctly, including length, humor, and how it handles a harem ending. The cast of characters are memorable and hilarious, especially Stabby Mike. The MC is likeable. The Ren'Py renders' quality are off the chart, probably one of the best, if not the best, I've played.

The only nitpick I can think of is the plot may seem quite outlandish and far-fetched, but at least the game itself realizes it and doesn't take itself too seriously, which is why its humor lands so perfectly.

I'm gonna keep this one short.
I played 'Once in a Lifetime' after being very impressed by Caribdis newer project 'Eternum' which in my eyes is absolutely wonderful.

'Once in a Lifetime' gets 4.5/5 from me, which i'm very comfortable rounding up, in general and in the context of the VN that led up to 'Eternum'.

A big upside of this game is the story, It's not groundbreaking, but it is interesting and keeps you invested from start to finish.
In a genre where a lot of games use a lazy story as an excuse for the characters to fuck around doing nothing meaningful until they get to fuck one another it's really nice to have an actual interesting thought out story.
The game is absolutely hilarious at many points, stabby mike is such a great character and made me burst out laughing many times.
There are also plenty of touching moments, and the final scene was very emotional.

The characters are pretty charming and doesn't lack personality (even though they aren't exceptionally deep), there's a decently wide cast of LI's, just enough to be interesting and give options, but not too many of them which is a common pitfall of some of the more ambitious projects. A surprisingly good choice for a first project.

The visual side of things is actually pretty good, but probably the weakest point.
Both the MC and the LI's are looking fine (some side characters faces can get a little weird), the animations are alright, but some of the renders can be a bit grainy and outdated.
As I said - it's actually pretty good, more than good enough, but in a game that does everything else fantastically that's pretty much the only thing that I wouldn't rate 5/5 in a heartbeat.

Overall It's a wonderful experience that I'd recommend without a second thought.
It's honestly kind of shocking knowing this is Caribdis first work, It's just too good.
Thanks for the experience.

Another Great game . great story and perfect writing. Well written sex scenes and story makes me happy ,its hard to find quality games . i think i love you Caribdis xD

Eternum ,Once in a Lifetime and Highway Blossoms are my favorite games and two of them are Caribdis' game