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

Real awesome light hearted game. Recommend to everyone! Pretty nice animations and great even though a bit silly story. Perfect as well if you´re coming from a heart stopper *cough* AL *cough* LOF *cough*. I really needed that feelgood bullshit!

Review for version 1.0

So, I'm pretty sure this is the first adult game I've reviewed, and I'm pleased to slap a full five star rating on here. There were a couple of minor things that bugged me, but the overall quality of the game is enough for them not to affect the final score.

The pros:
- Riveting story, legit had me wondering what would happen next
- Great humor. A few jokes fell flat from time to time, but overall great. Got multiple laugh out loud moments from me.
- I enjoyed the girls quite a bit. Both their personalities and their designs. Good variety, and I liked all of them.
- The rest of the cast were great too, whether as characters themselves, gags, or simply to service the plot. Stabby Mike is a legend. I defy anyone to make it through the game without becoming a Stabby Mike fan.
- Titillating sex scenes. While a lot of the animations seemed to just be canned Honey Select animations, they more than served their purpose. The dialogue was nice as well, the dirty talk ranged from serviceable to hot as hell.

(minor) Cons:
- Had some gore. Not a fan of gore in general, but there is one particular instance of a gutted corpse being front and center on screen that I found especially uncomfortable. Luckily it wasn't near a sexy scene, so no boner loss, but still unsettling. Expect to see some blood, a little gore, and some disturbing looking critters.
- Lackluster pregnancy content. Major pregnancy fan, so was disappointed to only see two or three images showing any pregnancy, and even though you can impregnate all of the girls you don't get to see all of them pregnant. I loved the moments they discovered their pregnancies, though. But I definitely would have loved to have seen more shots of them pregnant.

And that last bit is the real kicker here: the fact that I was disappointed in the area of my favorite fetish (pregnancy) and STILL give this five stars should tell you how much I loved it overall. A masterpiece of adult VNs, and I've played through quite a few.

Once in a Lifetime is an incredible game! An amazing mix of story, humor, romance, and love, I just couldn't step away from it. Finished it in a couple days, and will definitely give it another playthrough a while later!

Just finished playing this game.
It's an amazing experience.
Actually this is my first review here.
You've just got yourself an another loyal fan!

Author (Dev) really took effort in creating this. I can feel it.
Story is not hard to understand. It's actually very simple about a secret cult. Author (dev) has interesting sense of humor honestly. Great writing, well paced story!
This game also has some silly jokes, it makes you laugh in middle of playing. Never thought r18 game would be so fun to play.

The emotions in this game are so vivid, along with the dialogues.
Those suspicious eyes, speechless faces staring right to your soul. 5/5
Even sometimes characters crack joke in middle of serious conversation.
The scripted lines are well balanced with the models expression. It's accurate.

I've seen in many games where characters fail to match the scripted lines which results in awkward character design.
I'm sure if dev had choosen daz over HS, it would've not been this good.

At the very least characters would've been flawed. That I'm sure of it after playing it now. (No offense to daz fans btw)

Playing this game made me reaffirmed my love for Honey Select again!

Last but not least, our MVP Stabby Mike!!
This man carried MC all the way to the end. Roff~
Also "travel guides” are no joke. I'm serious!

P.S. Stabby Mike and Hiromi. Good Job!

So dev, I'll be playing your next game soon enough. ^^

Final rating : 4.5/5
- Rex

Great writing, nice pacing, hot girls and a good story. Definitely worth trying. Nice to have a game where things don't feel rushed. Hopefully someone will eventually do a remaster. One of the best in it's genre that I've come across. 10/10

Great game! Funny, lovely characters, animations are fantastic and good use of sound. Well-written (I mean it's still a porn VN) and not full of grammatical errors, hooray!

I was genuinely surprised by this game, not sure why I never took a look at this before.
Easy recommend.

Its ok, the characters aren't the best or particularly memorable, the MC isn't bad but he's hardly enjoyable to play as either, the overall story has good bits that can actually get tense and intrigue you but the pacing feels really off and there are long stretches where the sex and the story just feel completely divorced, making it feel like a distraction to do either or. I think there's a lot of good writing in this but overall it's a bit muddled. Definitely closer to a 4 star than a 2 star though.

Funny, wholesome, hot its got it all. A must play for anyone who enjoys western visual novels really. Bang your mom, bang your sister bang em all really. Brilliant stuff.

The main plot is a bit over the top but its just a vehicle for everything else to happen so who cares. Its like a good RPG, the main story doesnt matter much, although if its the main focus it can be a real hinderance to the game in general. For example fallout 4s main story is incredibly boring. And taking into account there barely any roleplaying in the side quests, it makes it quite a trash RPG game. As an FPS its ok, as there really arent that many FPS single player games out there, but thats not what I want from an RPG.

Anyways OIAL is very good.

Normally i don't bother with writing reviews but i will make an exception for this one. I'm a dude who prefers 2d games over 3d ones. But wow.. This game is easily the best adult visual novel/game i have ever played and it satisfies the player in every area.

Pros:
+A great variety of scenes and fluid animations with multiple angles to view
+Beautiful and cute female characters that don't look like plastic bimbos ( wow that's RARE for a 3DCG game. Patrician taste right there)
+Decent story with amazing humor. Seriously, this game had really funny moments and i love the way they implemented the jokes. Pretty obvious that the dev has a good sense of humor.
+Good song choices.
+MC is not an annoying twat. In fact he's pretty cool.

Cons:
-I loved the ending CGs rolling with "I'll Be Right Behind You, Josephine". But i feel like there should have been a proper epilogue before those CGs with some interaction between characters.

Overall, if you have a "plan to play" list, put this game before anything else. It won't disappoint you.

great story, perfect dialogue, art style took a bit to get used to but its super hot. the humour is surprisingly good, as good as you can get on an adult game. played the android version and it ran completely fine just a little lag while loading animations. possibly the best adult game ive ever played. i actually got sad when it ended because i was hooked, only nitpick is maybe there couldve been a longer wind down for the ending (like more scenes at the end). would recommend to anyone looking for a good adult VN.

Overall great game.
The story was interesting, the jokes were funny and the characters were lovable. And the game is a decent length, with well-written dialogue. I recommend getting the walkthrough mod if you don't want to do multiple playthroughs as there are a lot of options/choices in the game.

The models are detailed and not-stock, which is pretty rare, so that's a massive bonus, but if this were a film, the plot and pacing would have me out of my seat and headed for the ticket booth for a refund.

This game is amazing, all the girls are great but your two sisters are something else... I genuinely really liked them. The art is awesome, very hot, and the story is interesting. On top of all of that the game is really funny, have quite few good chuckles while playing. 10 out of 10 game.

4/5 from all aspect
4/5 the render n animations decent, pretty much i only love jasmine, yes dont mind me only love side girl
4/5 the story, yet lot of humor, but i m really sad the ending just focused on harem, for some1 maniac harem u will love this,
4/5 the ui, pretty looks comfortable for my eye, but the box is still to big, yes i know ive play complet ver, dont mind me
n yes u can see it is all 4

Absolutely, like really really good game! One of the best adult game I have ever played, even considering "normal games" included, it still has one of the better if not one of the best short to middle long story based game I've played until this day! A BIG BIG recommandation to at least try this one out! No regrets!

Probably one of the best games on this site I've had the pleasure of playing. A perfect blend of humor, story and, of course, content.
I had a blast playing and recommend it to anyone who's got the time and interest in it.
A special note has to be given to the soundtrack, surprisingly. I found it quite fitting in most places and the Menu Theme can get stuck in ones head quite quickly.

It is truly one of a kind

Cocaine! Funnier and more interesting than expected. It's one of the highest-reviewed games on this site and part of it is the consistency, self-awareness, and constant callbacks. Needle-drops all over the place. Final ending felt a little let-down because I wanted to see more of what happened to these people.

Great story! Great visuals!

Cons:
-Only good endings seem to be with 1 girl or all of them, really wish you could get a subset of the girls
-The ending seems really rushed and you don't get any kind of feedback from any of the girls after the ending

Amazing game, got satisfying endings(Harem/Asteroth) and honestly such a fun and interesting story. Top class, love it.

The individual characters you encounter provide something wonderful to the story, mostly the core group and the like but even additional bit parts are really well done, and some of the scenes had me in stitches, the author is clearly great at story pacing and a solid sense of humor. It's true that models were sometimes kinda pretty uncanny at the beginning of the story (creepy, unnatural limbs and waists), like alternatives from "Mandela Catalogue", but it will pass. (dev got the knock of it at some point)
And with the in game announcement of a new game in the works i am very much looking forward to see his next project. Cheers!
PS: I hope to see it release on Steam, to add it to my cOllection of games there.