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

Since everyone is rating then here is mine too. Just love all the characters especially stabby Mike. The facial expressions of MC always gets me. Looking forward to the other game the dev is working on!

This is type of story you can only experience “once in a lifetime” and it's super good it's one of the best harem games out there the author knows how to play with renders to create cool funny, emotional,sad scene's and also very skilled writer for me the main attraction of the vn was it's romance aspect second it's story and third it's h scenes which are waaay better done than any other honey select games on here you don't even need to read the reviews just play without thinking much it's that good after all you only get to play games like this “once in a lifetime”. Good luck to the dev for his next project.

The writing is great. There are no (or minimal/unnoticeable) bugs. It has some nice looking art This is some seriously captivating and wacktastic material we have here! I totally recommend this and anything else created by this dev, past or future. \m/ \m/

This Game is so fucking great... laughted tears all over the place.

Its well written, incredibly funny, but has touching lovestories too with good sex-scenes. The look is great and unique, btw i saw a lot of graphics out of other games and anime-series.

The Animations are decent and not annoying... they are adding a nice bonus.

But some flaws too. The soudn for example... really bad volume mix. Sometimes very loud, sometimes you can barley hear the sounds or music, or there are no sounds/music at all. Doesnt worked out well.

And there are not much reasons to replay the entire game. There are not exactly different paths. Near the end you have some choices that will have an impact to the endings, but thats about it. But nevermind, most of the games try to create many paths and got distracted or it grows over the head of the DEVs and nothing worked out in the end. So good you sticked to the plan... sometimes linear is much better when its done good as an average multipath game.

5 stars to you.

Honestly the best nsfw game i have ever played.
The scenes / gallery is so good, the story is cute and nice, the fact that your choices make a difference, just wow. Fell in love with some of the characters. 10/10 would play again.

This game has a great sense of humor and enjoyable character development. Your actions have a good level of permanent impact on future events and there is plenty of entertaining content. Recurring characters especially make this a worthwhile visual novel. The story ventures into serious and scary territory at times but overall maintains a level of not taking itself too seriously with many lighter moments scattered throughout. The main character is enjoyable and doesn't fall into typical annoying tropes as many games have a bad habit of doing.

The art is well done with attractive characters and well put together scenery. Given the limitations of Honey Select, the author makes good use of assets. Perhaps this game's greatest strength is the dev's use of gestures and expressions for the characters which, if you like these characters, can be very satisfying. The love scenes do not get very fetishy or over the top but instead feel sincere and empathetic towards each individual character. Personally it made a positive impact to me that the game focuses on romantic encounters between people that develop strong relationships rather than just random hookups like some writers create. The plot feels sincere and positive overall despite some darker overtones to the general theme.

If I had one critique for the author it may be that some elements feel a bit too convenient to facilitate the story. For example, the multiple love interests convince themselves/each other to accept a harem situation without even a suggestion from the MC. This works out nicely but perhaps leaves one's suspension of disbelief hanging slightly.

Overall this is an excellent game and provided hours of entertainment. Once in a Lifetime is both funny, scary, exciting and provocative. Caribdis should feel proud of this work and I am looking forward to their next creation.

Great story, and very humoress. Several paths to choose from and get different endings. Some of the best H Scenes. Sadly the main story is over.

Looking forward to the final scenes and the new game.

Once in a lifetime is a fun VN, with the right mix of comedy, sex and plot. I always quote GTA Vice City and say keep the cameras pointed at the poontang, and Caribdis does not fail at this. The story never gets too serious, but the comedy factor doesn't take over either. Definately putting this in my complete games folder to revisit for the gallery!

As I understand it, this is Cardibis's first game. The art is really good, and the girls are pretty enjoyable. Two things that I have a slight problem with. As a couple people have mentioned already, I felt the cult thing is not really necessary. They feel seperate to each other. And at the beginning it seems none of the girls take it seriously. I think you could've used another better reason to make the two women sexually frustrated instead, and still added a mystery element; the men have seperate families for example, or maybe that they were in love with each other.

My second gripe is that the dialogue didn't flow very smoothly. I understand this is your first game that you're working on, but try to remember to add more dialogue to make the flow of conversation better in future projects. Especially in the sex scenes; (although they were really hot) they ended after like one or two taps. Even just a couple moans and non-important dialogue could make it better.

The male model was also a bit weird (mostly the eyes), so I hope that will improve as well.

Overall a very solid game. I loved it, and I hope to play more of your games in the future Cardibis

Since everyone else and their second cousin is filling up my notifications bin with reviews for this game, I'll toss in my fifty cents.

From an objective narrative standpoint, I felt like I was reading two well-written stories that had almost nothing to do with each other, yet were being forced to work together. And I cite this critique in the most constructive way possible, so that the dev might consider my opinion moving onto future projects.

At its core, Once in a Lifetime is a story about a young man who is getting it on with his sexually frustrated (not) mother, curious (not) sisters, one of his classmates, and his sexually neglected teacher. All of this could have easily been done without the backdrop of mysterious cults and magic.

Each part of a story should be indispensable. This is why critics hate Jar Jar Binks and Olaf the Snowman - because you can rewrite the whole story without them and accomplish the same thing, if not also do it better. So while I was playing this game, it felt like the fantasy narrative was not as meaningful to your character's relationships with the girls as I would have liked.
Yes, both father and the fiance had probable cause to be absent, giving their significant other's probable cause to feel neglected, but the cause of their absence could have been fulfilled with anything, be it cheating with a side piece, a second job, gambling problems, or any other sort of second life instead of a fantasy about grimoirs and gods. As it presenty is, it feels superficial, almost like creating the connection was a second thought.

Fantasy in general has its own set of problem. I really do enjoy fantasy stories, but I also hate it whenever magic is used as plot armor, or to get the MC to cheat a victory. To Caribdis's credit, there was not a great deal of this, but it did exist.

Once in a Lifetime was also made in such a way where you really only ever have to play the game once in your lifetime. Sorry, I couldn't resist the joke. What I mean is, you can see almost all of the content in a single play-through, if you want to. There are inherent good and bad aspects to this sort of game design that simply are not the dev's fault. Some people like and dislike only having to play a game once, some people like and dislike having to play a game more than once. You simply cannot please everyone. I only bring this up for readers to keep it in mind.
There is a secret ending if you follow no girls' paths, but I don't know what that ending consists of (yet). But this ending from what I can tell is the only ending you'd have to play the game a second time to be able to see.

Ignoring the taboo kinks, the sex options in this game are very vanilla. Oral, vag, and very little anal. It was actually refreshing, in my opinion, and it made sense for this story and the relationships being developed. Lots of other games are filled to the brim with every weird-AF fetish that puts rule 34 to shame, especially the Japanese games. Brownie points for keeping it simple.

In summary: Once in a Lifetime's worst flaw is it wasn't nearly as compelling as I think it could have been. But Caribdis did so well in every other aspect that I cannot bring myself to knock off more than one star. I think everything else has already been said 200 times, at the very least, by all the previous reviewers. This game is definitely above the average, and I am curious to see what else Caribdis makes in the future.

I can't describe with words how much i love this game, starting from beautiful characters (Carla and Jasmine are the best for me) to interesting story with humor which isn't cringe and actually makes me laugh. Tribute to you Caribdis for making it, and i can't wait to play your next game.

Very good game. Plot, graphics, characters and lot's of humor. This is a one of the best game in this type around here.
Pretty long playtrough if you read all the story of course, no bugs for me . A huge 5 stars game period.

This game deserves accolades. If there were an annual awards program, this would sweep the show. The writing is excellent, with a unique blend of pseudo-action sequences, adventure, creepy-but-not-quite-scary horror, actually legitimately funny moments, and cute/sexy times. The story is a globe-trotting adventure with diverse set pieces, but still manages a cohesive whole. The overarching plot is relatively engaging, and the characters are exceedingly well written, even if they're frequently 2-dimensional.

If I had nits to pick, I think it would be the latter point. While the writing is great, the characters are a bit flat and fill their role/fetish. I get that it's a porn game and that the words "character development" are usually used to describe a character's chest size, but as I said I'm nitpicking here.

Caribdis has managed to write a fun adventure story that will tickle your brain in all the best ways. You'll need to actually pay attention, and to know some basic history/geography, but the writing is so well done that even if you get a few wrong it won't impact the story and may even add to the fun!

The animation is excellent, the desirables are very desirable, and even background characters get care and attention to a level that is uncommon in this genre.

Overall 5/5 and the honor of actually taking my time to review.

The game's writing really elevates it from others the comedy it has is great, the horror actually felt creepy and while not all characters get equal screen time their interaction were consistently good, combined with good sex scenes make it one of the best adult games i've seen and hope to see the dev make more projects in the future

I am reviewing the 1.0 update.
This game is excellent, the story and characters felt really well written, it has excellent comedic moments and serious moments.
The game itself looks good, it really uses the assets really well to create some of the most hot and wonderful girl characters.
The music is great, the developer really picked good songs to portrait each moment of the game, the sound effects as well were excellent.
This is a top game, I recommend it to anyone looking for a nice harem/romance story with some horror aspects.

The game was excellent, loved the scary moments and loved the girls! I got jumpscared a few times lol! Stabby Mike was one of my favorite characters in this game along with the tour guide!

The music wasn't overbearing and sounded good, so good on that! And the sex sounds were good too(I have to mute the sound on some games because of how obnoxious the moans are).

The animations weren't choppy and the image aren't grainy, so also good!

The girls haven't annoyed me at all which is another plus!

As I've mentioned, the side characters are hilarious and actually serve a purpose so another plus! All in all, if you are on the fence wondering whether or not to play it, then don't! Check it out, you'll like it!

Can't wait for your next game eternum carbdis!

Fun, sexy game with enjoyable characters. The story is inane and rather hard to follow, but I enjoyed the interactions among the characters and there was a lot of humor.

The character models are very similar. For example, the only difference between the MC's sisters was their boob size and hair color. Otherwise, their faces were identical. The cousin and popular girl from school also looked very similar. The males, meanwhile, were all very ugly and Japanese looking. But this was my only real criticism.

I will certainly continue to check out work from this developer.

By far one of the best VN of his genre here, in my opinion, there's a lot of work done on the story (The story's interesting, it keeps you on your toes) and on the scenes & models (Girls are really well made, there's real work on the lighting...). Oh, and there's also real work on the atmosphere, with good musics & sound, be it for serious, happy or "horror" scene, it's really well done.
Some may complaint about the "lack" of variety with Honey Select, but I don't think that's a problem since I find it really well handled in this game, be it by the changes of situations or scenes ^^
A really great game!

Not usually do reviews but my god does this game deserve it. Great sense of humor with a perfect comedic timing, great characters, good renders and sex scenes, and an original and interesting plot. Furthermore, the dev was soncstant with his updates and never failed to deliver on the promised deadlines cant wait to play more games from the dev

ahh man i played it slow so that i dont miss any part of the game man i played one of the best game out there the dialogues the music the scenes and the best part humour i was literally rolling on my bed because of the humour .......... and the ending man just one thing for dev thanku so so so very much