VN - Ren'Py - Single Again [v1.24.1] [Clever name games]

Rating version 0.7

I am not sure how I missed this one, but I'm glad I found it now. If you're looking for a quick fap, move along. There is very little sex with a little masturbation, one dream porn scene, and NTR with the ex (with the guy she's cheating on).

The store is slowly built from the foundation with a recently-divorced dad and his actual (ok, maybe not actually his daughter but he adopted her very young) and two step daughters from the recent divorce.

Dad is the rock for all of the girls and you can see them slowly gravitating to him and teasing him in their own ways. The game is a slow build, and if you are expecting sex with the girls I would predict this would happen around version 17, like so many VNs with dads/brothers/sisters/daughters in them.

However, the girls have well fleshed-out characters, and the writing makes you really care about them and understand where they are coming from. That, and you might actually fall in love a little bit with them along the way.

I can't wait for the next episode.

Updating for v.11 and responding to some other posts. This is one of the few games where I have seen a dev brave enough to use Daz's "The Girl" model for their base products. If you like art, think the Big Eyes characters. As many said, it's kind of unusual and offsetting, but after playing the game for a while, you kind of tune that out because you become emotionally invested in the characters.

Some reviewers have panned the story, but I find it reading like a pretty typical piece of literature, with the viewer being dropped in media res (in the middle of things), and a slow build up to a climax, with a likely denouement.

Even though the MC is not "technically" father to any of them, he considers their relationship to be father/daughter, thus the incest trope. The story has been enjoyable and the development, especially in the last chapter, while not entirely unexpected (heck, it was telegraphed, big time by Rebecca) was very fulfilling and justifies the growth of relationship between the characters.

If you were put off by the "big eyes" and that's your only reason, I would encourage you to give this a chance, as it really is a wonderful and very fulfilling story.

The character art style initially turned me off the game, but the excellent writing won me over, and I came to like the unusual art and character design. I'm looking forward to where the dev takes the story.

Dude, what can I say about this game more than I fucking love it, I loved the characters, story, theirs relationship, the 3d is pretty cute, I really cant wait to see more content of this game.
Easily one of my favorites.

Sorry if there is some erros english is not my native language.

---- Characters :
The characters are a bit cliché, but in a good way. You will like most of them but probably won't be surprised or stunned. Rebecca is the most interesting imo. The MC is for now the perfect dad (maybe too perfect ?) and of course with good looks and big dick

---- Renders/Graphisms :
The chara design is kinda strange at first sight but in fact you will get used to it and eventhough it's a bit irregular, it is nice overall. Lilith is the most attractive imo.

---- Story/Writing :
The story is very classic, it is a very common piece of life except that it is not very common that both step daugthers and daugthers have daddy issues...
The writting is good, there is some humor, but sometimes it is a bit scholar or repetitive

---- Background/Atmosphere :
The atmosphere is pretty nice, the loft is cosy, the pace is slow but comforting. Nothing striking but there is some effort.
The big downside is that there is no music, no sound.

---- Animations :
Until v0.6, you gonna be pretty disapointed by this as there are not many. Just a few dream short sequence, or kiss/hug animation. But don't worry, in the later updates, you will see some that are quite convincing. Not the top of the industry, but still above average

---- Sex scenes :
Strangely enough, for a game that focus a lot on love and is kinda vanilla overall, the sex scenes lacks context and atmosphere. So far, they are pretty standard.

---- Gameplay :
It is a standard VN with some choices, they don't impact on stats but they will unlock some scenes or slightly different routes. It works but you have to note that you will miss scenes coz you can't have everything at the same time.

---- Contents/Updates :
Contents are solid, updates seems to have a decent pace

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Conclusion : it is a nice little vanilla game with no weak point but no strong feature. In my opinion, it lacks a bit of pace, spice, cliffhanger, fun, erotism to be a top title

Very nice job, I love this game. 2-3 bugs i see there, but nothing important. Storyline is perfect, all girls have own personality (not just stupid naive big tits and ass girls from other games) Very good, thanx

Parts of this game are really good. Renders are great, animations are great, and the writing is fine.
The biggest problem is the MC is such a bitch man. He's a good looking dude with a huge cock and he acts like a baby dick virgin. He has 2 hot girls throwing themselves at him and he's so timid and scared about it that it drives me nuts.
I get that the dev wants to drag this out to make money, but holy shit dude, I don't know how much more I can click through the MC stammering and stuttering any time something sexual happens.

-- Updated for v0.13 --

Let me get the bad out of the way first: The game is a massive tease. Update v0.6 changed only very little regarding that.

As you may have seen on the description-page, v0.6 removed all NTR... until I reached the very end of that update, I found this to be highly debatable.
The MC gets teased to hell by the girls, but then they rather make out with each other. All the action our MC gets is to jerk off three times to his imagination, all the while repeatedly dreaming of his Ex-Wife getting boned by his Ex-Ex-Wifes first lover... after roughly 3 hours of gameplay, I kinda grew tired of this.
All in all, the game (currently) offers three four sex-scenes involving the MC... But two of those are the MC's fantasies, which (at least for me) makes them count less. It's just not the same if scenes are simply cramped in there, and have no relevance whatsoever. Makes it feel like the dev is afraid the game is too much "slow burn", and tries to give unrelevant eyecandy without impacting the story.

Problem is: This is no longer a slow burn. It's stagnation.
I feel like I'm playing the fucking narrator.... there is almost no story-progression at all. If there is, it's because the girls forced it onto MC. After that it's back to half an hour of reading MC recapping the Events I JUST played. Followed by almost another half hour of reading MC's inner debate regarding his feelings for the girls (which, by the way, is STILL THE SAME as in the very first release! He himself made no progress whatsoever in that regard. Whatever the girls want, he does it.). By now he had sex with two of the three girls, but it only happened because they basically forced themselfes onto an indecisive MC, who has no opinions of his own. Which is funny, because I'm kinda making choices for this MC while playing this, but they feel just that irrelevant for the progression speed.
It's either: Make choices that allow the story to progress slow, or make choices that reward you with an immediate Game-Over Screen.

He's like a piece of furniture. Inactive and unmoving. I'd even go so far and say, you could replace the MC with a Strap-On wearing Teddy Bear, and the only part of the story you'd have to change would be the divorce hearing. Other than that, everything would pan out the exact same way:
The girls took their Strap-On wearing Teddy Bear to the pool and had one-sided conversations with him.
The girls start to show affection towards their Strap-On wearing Teddy Bear, but it doesn't show any affection back.
Abygail takes her Strap-On wearing Teddy Bear to her bed.
Lily gets angry because her girlfriend sleeps with a Strap-On wearing Teddy Bear, thinking she rather has fun with a dildo than with her...

People praise this dev for the "big" updates... but let's be honest here... not much is actually happening in them! They moved in, visited the pool (in their basement), MC went shopping and then had his Divorce-hearing. That's basically all the major plot-points we saw so far. Other than that, it's a whole lot of MC sitting on the couch or lying in bed, thinking about his feelings.
The long playtime results solely from MC's recaps and inner debates of the same shit over and over again, without EVER reaching a conclusion.
It's just gotten boring as hell. And the fact that roughly 80% of the presented choices lead to immediate game-over screens, and I couldn't play this consecutively for more than an hour without installing the walkthrough-mod, doesn't exactly help.

BUT!

With the last update the story developed in a direction that lead me to expect more and made me excited for the updates to come.

While the porn-content is very sparse, the renders are really good. The models looked a little funny in the screenshots, but they grew on me and started looking really good as newer characters were introduced.
And the animations are REALLY well made. Someone clearly took a LOT of time making these right. If only there were more of them...

I did not liked character models when checked the screenshots at first, but decided to try this one and was not disappointed at all. Nice looking graphics (in general), interesting and engaging plot, good writing and believable characters. If you like slow pacing incest VNs then this is definitely worth your attention.

This is a game where you get swept into the story and actually emotionally connect with the characters. Good renders, FANTASTIC story. This is on my watch list and I cannot wait for subsequent updates!

i have to say this VN is absolute perfection with respect to story , plot and character progression.
renders are a little noisy but they are good and to cover this i have to say this VN has very good animations
if you are sucker for story and incest this VN is for you

This is a good VN. It has a good story so far, and the characters have some depth to them.
I enjoy the MC's struggle with his feelings. The slow burn is a good change of pace.
The ladies are all unique, sexy and there's a struggle with each of them. Except with one. She's got her eye on the prize.
The internal struggle that the MC has is an excellent idea. If he had more of a spine it would be better.
I get why the MC is that way though. It adds to the depth of character.
I look forward to seeing this one to completion. Keep up the good work.

v0.6
I was convinced I had already rated the game...
I love the game, fits into many of the usual structures of "incest" games out there, but has a lot of details that make it stand out!
The renders are a little noisy but very good (if you enjoy the awesome big eyes)...
But the animations are the main reason I checked to see if I had rated... before the Beth sex scene there were some animations of kissing, they are crisp and far above par!
The story is slow but I love it!
Awesome job from the dev! I don't think I was ever this disappointed to see the end of the available content!

This is a game for those who love romantic stories with a gradual progression system. Nothing too extreme or fast-paced; it is like reading a novel but one that is perverted.

The story as of now has no sexual content but it is building up the aspects of a story like the plot, characters, setting and etc. As mentioned above, this game feels like a novel because there is allot of internal monologue as well as view-points from all the characters. This makes the player feel like they are part of the story too!

"Single-Again" is one of the rare games that I got whole-hardheartedly involved with and I bet those who love such romantic stories would share the same opinions as me.


Animations - 5*
While there are only a few short animated clips, it shows that there is great effort in and the scenes are really really awesome. Can't wait to see more!

Story - 5*
While there are no explicit content yet, the story is intriguing to look at as it is looking at the lives and perspective of all the characters (minus the mom)

Gameplay - 5*
There are some 'Endgame' scenes that makes the story more unique.

Total - 5*

Love this game . Great renders, beautiful girls, nice story, and all of the focus so far has been on the characters advertised, rather than the dev clogging up the story with a new character every update. Can't wait to see where this one goes

Single Again is one of those kinda cute, sweet games that packs a lot of heart, its fairly slow moving (so far, which is good in my opinion) with very little sexual content (so far .05) but keeps you engaged and causes you to start to really immerse yourself in the game and develop a connection to the girls.

the main girls renders are different from any other characters in the game as well as most other 3D VN's although the huge eyes take minute to get used to, which makes it kinda unique, the animations are excellent and well used.

this game however is not for someone looking for a sterile sex scene filled fap game. so if your not looking for a deep, cute romantic incest(sorta) game, its probably not for you.

This game quickly became a favoite

pros: great, well thought out stoy
immersive characters
great renders
excellent animation
good story telling
no sex scenes until its appropriate within the story.

cons: spelling could use some work early on.
it seems unnecessary at this point for Abigail to not be your blood related real daughter. even with a patch to get around patreon.

This one kinda caught my eye some time ago in the "recent updates" list but
reading the first page of postings in the thread, put me off and I never tried it.
But it kept showing up with regular updates, so I gave it eventually a try. Glad I did.
Also the dev did clean up his tiers and paywall. Prolly better for him anyway.

Yeah the girls look unique. It's not for everyone.

(But tastes differ. Otherwise we'd all be driving the exact same car in the same colour,
we'd all wore the same clothes and our wifes/Gfs all looked alike. What a boring world that would be.
I like that it is something different for a change. There are enough games out there which use the same models/assets
and where the characters look alike. And I am sure you'll find something more to your personal liking in a game just a click away here on F95.
So no need to bash other peoples preferences like an insecure teenager.)

But for me something different is refreshing.

I'd go as far as call them cute. Here goes: The 3 main girls are cute. Abby more than the others but nonetheless cute.

(Maybe Beth needs some rework. But that is personal taste and taste is a very subjective matter.
But creating good looking light blond model with a fair complexion is difficult.)

The game has got animations and those are very well done.
It even got 1 animated sex dream scene. I may repeat myself but: very well done.

The render quality is great. Some lowlight setting ones are a bit noisy.
But I guess those are the most diffcult ones to make unless you got access to Pixxar
or Disney grate rendering rigs.

The story is nice. Warm, positive, well natured (that a proper english word?)
So far no douchebaggery, nothing vile or toxic.

I just hope the dev continues that way and finishes his game.
Preferably with a harem ending.

Seriously try it and like it. For what it is so far the dev deserves support.

My Rating for (V0.5 ) is:

Pros:
+ Great Graphics
+ Nice Story
+ Cute Characters
+ Long Update
+ Great Animation

Cons:
-Not many Sex Scenes

Conclusion:
Love the way the Characters are made, very cute or sweet, either way you put it....
and the story seems promising, hoping for some great action in the future, but going at a good Pace right now with no grinding.

Last Words:
going at a good pace and worth the download....

Great game. Nice models who don't look like every other character in every other game. Good writing which doesn't trivialize incest (everybody seems to be resisting their urges pretty hard), slow burn but with a good update rate (so hopefully even though there's not much progress with the girls in each update, the frequent updates will mean we won't have to wait too long). Recommended.

The game is fairly well written, there are some typos but there aren't that many of them. The characters are sweet with some drama mixed in them and the whole story is simple but enjoyable, mostly drama and romance-related, with some humor in it as well as a minor slow burn to its progression and storytelling, and the visuals are decent. Personally, I like the character designs, they are a bit simplistic but grow on you the further you play.

Overall a nice game and I enjoyed it, but I advise reading the character biographies at the start of the game, they are well-detailed and will help you better understand the story and serve as an introduction to the characters.


Edit: After the engine\visual "upgrade" or a hefty downgrade as I see it, the game has become gradually worse. Along with the visuals the writing is just a constant repeat of an indecisive, thick-headed MC and all the girls having to force their relationship on him. All the choices don't matter as well since it pretty much became a linear harem game. It's a shame too since I initially really liked the game.

The game should be renamed Lilith, it is mainly about how she feels and what she wants. Her feelings seem to be the main driving force to how even your own daughter acts around you, when you are with her. Poorly written motives to her interactions with you the MC. What proceeds is spoilers but it explains exactly how I feel and why with reasoning in game.


In this game it is almost like you are a ghost and you just powered up to start the story of the daughter and Lilith. Hope it drastically improves. Hell, it is even pointed out your own daughter whom you take with you after the divorce never even really spent time with you when you all lived together. Did you even exist. ?? He even has to keep going to toilet when out with his daughter so she can talk to others, you know, get him out of the way, what a nuisance the MC is.

If the game gets future updates and I play, I will of course adjust the score accordingly. This is just my opinion and review, always feel free to disagree and have your own viewpoint after playing. If you liked it, great.