VN - Ren'Py - Single Again [v1.24.2] [Clever name games]

The story is very good, great animations, charismatic characters, without doubt one of my favorites so far, great expectations, it's just taking a while, but it doesn't get in the way, you have to have the narrative first

If i'd use one word to describe this game, it'd be - "Annoying". In my time playing adult games I have come across my fair share of slow burns, but maaaaaan, This game is literally satan roasting you in the flames of hell fire.

For probably the 100th time, we have the same cliched storyline of father and his 3 daughters, except in this game, they're not his daughters ( Step-daughters,, Also who the fuck know how this idiot was married for more than 10 years and had 2 partners in this time , yet no child of his own?? is it because the author wants to keep this incest free or did the MC say.. Nn..No... I ccc..a I can't to his wives too...) this MC is the epitome of resisting temptations that the devil would literally accept defeat to him.

So, welcome to the game that will torture you with un-necessary dinner talk, painstakingly boring swimming pool games, 500 lines of text while cycling between 2 renders back & forth..then more pool time because that Asian chick didn't yet see your pool. and if thats not enough, bombard you with the same POV daughter kissing you ( camera ) animation for the 20th time in a day.

Meet Abigail, the perfect (step)daughter and loved by all, and since she's the cream de la creme of this game you probably wouldn't get to have sex with her till the end. Watch her sleep naked in your bed every night without anything remotely interesting happening.

Meet Lillith, the bratty sister.. Doesn't give a fuck and hates the MC. and since she's now managed to piss off more than half of the fanbase to the point they dont care about her , by the rules written in the holy book of cliches, She has to be the one who getd banged by the MC first. ( LOL, Becca... Fuck you ). Watch the story go for a toss as this girl who hates the MCand wants to kill the MC for sleeping naked with her sister suddenly fuck your brains out the same afternoon.... because of a stupid Bet ?? Lol.

Meet Becca, your 3rd stepdaugter..the vixen. Watch her manipulate yourself and her sisters with the plan to form your very own mini harem because .........Seriuosly... Y..Y...yo.. you, CCC aa Ca Cant!!!.. No, I mean really- you cant. Youre a fuckin sissy. Seriously, the game would be much better with her as Main Character.

So, put together in simple words....The Dev fucked up the character progression hard. I'm thinking he probably wanted to increase the audience, so he went on with Abigail's story until the point he realized he went too far.. Abigail was already sleeping naked in his bed, while Lillith still hated him and Becca had like just 3 scenes untill then..So, he kept stalling Abigail content by making her sleep naked for like atleast 10 ingame days without anything interesting happening between them( #Blueballs) and then sacrificed Lillith by having her bang the MC due to some stupid bet with Becca and covering the dirt with the most cliched excuse- Hey, you know I hated you and all but secretly I've been fantasizing about you.. ( Hell !! She wasn't even ready to hug him the previous day ).Becca on the other hand is a character that literally holds this story together but all we have with her are stupid bar & pool teasing scenes.And then one day she suddenly meets the MC and tells him her daddy fetishes and her mini harem plan.

Final Rating : Download an auto-clicker and set click interval 50m/s. Save your mouse/save your keyboard.

Great renders. Characters have more depth and are more interesting than most games. Has kept me interested up through this point and has some unexpected turns. Lots of fun. Look forward to future updates

I fucking love this game, everything about it. The Hybrid drawn style, the deep characters and relationships with them, the clever dialog and well thought out plot. And those girls, I want to father and pleasure them all until end of days

Very well done story. Each character has a distinct personality that is totally relatable. Although there is absolutely No incest, it just seems like that anyway. I also like the inclusion of a lesbian couple, of which one is bi.

I played this game the first few updates but it didn't stick for me.
Then i got back at a later update and now its one of my favorite games on this site.
I like the slow burn and the strugle the MC have with his thoughts, he's not just a big perv who finds it totally normal to lust after the girls around him.
Every girl is destinctly different, and have their own personalities.
Only girl i dont really like story or personality wise is Mei, but hey, we all have different tastes!
This game is really worth a playtrough!

At first I wasn't sure what to expect, another game with 3 sisters and the single dad. But as the story goes on, you get caught up in the game with very few sexual scenes and a lot of dialogue that holds together. As we go along, we see that our entourage evolves and trusts us more and more. It becomes even personally embarrassing, so immersive the story becomes. Forgetting the childish faces, we really want to go further in the father/father-in-law relationship. Adding a divorce scene adds a little spice. It allows us to meet other characters. In short, I love the story, the characters are attractive (even if Lilith remains a little bitch), the scenes are well done, the story holds the road and is quite realistic (like the dreams with the fairies naked). I don't always give a maximum note to a game, but here I love the story and it's already very long, I hope it will never stop

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Li'l Lil.

A rare combination of top-notch writing + great models/renders + ultra cute characters. My only complaint would be the MC lines, too many "..." and witless remarks. Its beyond me how a bunch of young girls would be in love with someone sporting a personality like this. But thats a minor issue. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute, got lucky i didnt find the game earlier so i had the pleasure of playing from start to v. 0.11 in one go... now comes the hard part of anxiously awaiting further updates....

5/5

*I haven't finished the game yet, will update when I do if anything changes*

The general concept of the game is awesome. I love what it's supposed to be about. Rich in its storytelling, but I do believe there is such a thing as monotony in the vain of excess.

Pros:
Characters are cute, albeit not very realistic-looking.
Genre(s) are highly desirable
No bugs that I've experienced

Cons:
Characters could really use some better renders and variation
This is the only game I've played from recent memory where I have to manually proceed between scenes. This is annoying and the dev should make them auto-proceed when you click/hit SPACE.
Not sure whether there's any translation to English, but things like "to/too" and "their/they're/there" and "your/you're" are really distracting.

I loved the story it took me 3 days to finish it loved every second as it feels like a roller coaster it has great animations a small problem is that the icons of the characters don't always show what the ladies face looks like but that is a very minor detail on Android even so would recommend it 24/7

Amazing Story In my opinion, yeah not alot of sex but if you play for the story the sex is just a bonus played it twice to current update just wanting more, the relaships all seems real unlike other games you can feel the pain, the joy, the love and the conficts everyone is sharing, too cant wait for more

One Word Review:
Great.

Two Word Review:
Fucking Great.

Three Word Review:
Really Fucking Great.

It's more a story game from what I can tell, than it is a jack-off game, but it has quite a few scenes.
The story? In all honesty, even if there were zero scenes, and this was a completely SFW game, I'd still play it, the story, and the characters are really that good.
There are other games with decent/good stories, and characters like WVM, Rebirth, and Love of Magic.
But this IMO trumps all of them, by a wide margin.
The only close one is Rebirth, and that's only because I like the WoD universe, and it's based on that.
So if you don't mind reading, and don't just want a jack-off game, 100% recommend this game.

I'm rating Single Again with ***** because:

1) The story is engaging and I have developed a strong emotional investment in the characters.
2) Because of that connection, the sex, when it happens is so much more erotic.
3) I like the slightly manga-ish look of the three main females. To me, it fits perfectly with the MC's world view. He thinks of "his girls" as characters in a (non-erotic) Japanese anime, which makes it all the more shocking to him as they mature into horny young adults.
4) The MC's struggles with their behaviour and his own lust make him very relatable to me.
5) While spelling mistakes are common, they are reducing, and I don't find them intrusive. I'm guessing that the dev is a native English speaker, who was educated in the 80s and 90s when literacy problems became severe throughout the English-speaking world. All devs should be appreciated and assisted with English, rather than abused and ridiculed.

For many players, some, or all, of the above points are reasons for hating, or at the very least, being frustrated with this game, and that's fine. It would be a boring community if we all agreed.

Hopefully, this outline will help you decide if you would like to download and play the game.

This was a really fun story so far. There are a little bit of slow parts that I fast forwarded through but I did stay for a lot of it. Several times the story got me and makes me wish I was a father too (in a non-sexual way) which not a lot of VN's can do that.

I also love the fact that Becca is basically like L or Lelouch with planning stuff, which is definitely new to me and fun. I'm looking forward to more!

One of my favorite games. While the burn is sometimes painfully slow, I much prefer a conflicted protagonist over one with no compunctions. Makes for greater realism and higher satifaction when progress is made, for this perv at least. Not that there is anything wrong with a wham, bam, thank you ma'am for a quick fap. But I do enjoy a good emotional rollercoaster.

Models nothing special prety average 3

Story in some parts interesting in other parts boring 4

MC weak and pathetic also we can't take any real changing life decision 2

Sex scenes very few and without passion 3

Overall 4

Conclusion play it at your own judjement as there are other games better than this one

I like to wait quite a few updates sometimes to do a rating. I just kept forgetting on this one. However, I am definitely giving this a 5-Star rating. This is wonderful storytelling and full of emotion.
Note: If you're looking for a quick fap, look elsewhere.
However, if you're looking for a fun story with conflict, humour, fun characters and yet, still some wonderful lewd scenes... then I would definitely recommend this game. To the Devs... Keep up the great work.

I just played Single Again and absolutely fell in love! the characters are fantastic! story and writing are deep and immersive, overall sweet and a nice wholesome game. I will definitely be subscribing to this one soon and playing this one to conclusion.

CNG has done an outstanding job of creating a "work or art" story in a world of "cheap porn" games. The Developer is taking us on a ride as a complete human with morals and a conscience, slowly learns that all things are not as innocent as he would like them to remain. All the character's have real wants and desires, as well as emotional damage. It is not hard to sympathize with even the diabolical Shannon as i can see how she grew into the person she is. The Bios mixed with a rich story make for a great game

Reviewing this as of v0.11.

I want to start off by saying that this has all the makings of a good game, but its many shortcomings prevent me from justifying a higher rating. It's a classic example of an author thinking their stuff is more compelling than it is, so they get complacent writing a bunch of slow, uninteresting scenes that probably are fun in the author's head but not translated to paper/screen.

I wish I could give more praise to the visuals, but there really isn't a ton there. You get some of the generic Daz locations, which you're sure to notice if you've played enough other VNs, along with some buggish, doll-faced girls with crazy big eyes and tiny, sharp chins.

Even if you accept that it's the game's specific art style (though some characters, like Vanessa or the most unnecessarily inserted Darla the not-waitress don't have this style), there's not much effort spent on lighting, contrasts, skin texture, or anything of the sort. In fact, sometimes even the faces look the same between the three girls, and you're usually left to differentiate them by body shape, hair, or the fact that at least one and a half of them wear glasses.

The storyline is... passable. It's hackneyed, incredibly cliche, and hangs on to the taboo kink (but wait not really, but wait yes really, but wait... technically...) for way too long. Story progression feels natural enough, there's a good amount of content, and the characters are generally interesting enough for you to keep playing through the considerable amount of content (aka dialogue) in the game.

The problem is the story just progresses so slow, especially once you strip away all of the mind-meltingly mundane. Conversations seem to happen in real time, and you get a far too deep dive into unimportant life trivialities like the layout of their street or their daily routines or the specifics of their Friday night plans. No one reads [visual] novels so you can learn enough about the daily routines of the characters that you can keep a planner for each of them. Editing down what you should show and what you shouldn't is the mark of a good writer.

And speaking of, the game seems to have give a rough cut that includes every line of their daily conversations, but then doesn't depict the MC working? They mention his financial troubles. He's a real estate agent of some kind, including for properties in the "very expensive" heart of the city (which should come with the corresponding commissions so that he ISN'T in financial difficulty), but it shows him doing one sale and then fuck all with the rest of his time. By itself, the detail would be easily overlooked, but when juxtaposed with how the rest of the VN feels like a lengthy exploration into the character's every waking line of speech, the absence is jarring, and undermines the story that the exposition dumps are trying to tell us. There's no real tension because the MC's financial troubles seem to come and go as convenient.

Actual progression with any of the main characters (his not-quite-but-still-kinda-actual daughters) is glacial, and scarcely interspersed between long-winded conversations about going bikini shopping, doing dishes, or getting groceries.

Slow burns are totally fine, but there's SO many unnecessary scenes in this game where we get minimal plot or character development, and we just rehash the same things we've already known in a different way. We don't learn anything new about the characters, we just get to watch them hit a beach ball over and over or eat food for another sixty slides of dialogue.

The MC is annoying, inveterately passive, and confronted by the same moral quandary dragged out over an soul-suckingly long period of time. Like we get it, dude, you're guilty about wanting the taboo so badly, but we don't need 40 scenes of "N-no... I-I... C-c-c-an't..." while you passively watch three young women walk all over your life. There's no agency in the VN because you're a captive audience to a car crash in extreme slow motion.

There's not even sex appeal to the scenes anymore because by the 20th time the MC is paralyzed by fear while his not-quite-daughters slowly chip away a little more, even you as the audience start to feel assaulted. It's nauseating.

On the off chance we finally get some progress with a girl, it's always them doing all the work, while the MC feebly protests "n-no... th-this... is... is... wrong..." ad nauseam for the nth time. There's no tension, not even of the taboo, because it's always them saying yes and the MC being a useless doormat. It feels more rapey than taboo. No give or take. It's as if the author thinks that if they add internal monologue it qualifies as a compelling obstacle to overcome, or a justification to wring out yet another scene where nothing fucking happens.

(Note to the author: good narrative tension involves a good amount of back-and-forth, a tug of war of wills. The MC never initiates and always gives in. There's no tension here. It's just someone—usually Becca, but sometimes Abby—dragging this useless husk of a POV character while he makes perfunctory protests that really only serve to annoy the reader. There's never any real feeling that these increasingly sexual encounters might not happen, so his objections just feel like very aggravating lip service used to drag out the scenes. Or worse, tank the MC's likability.)

The characters lack both agency and depth. The primary love interest is a girl who seems shrouded in prudism, but also overwhelmed by curiosity and isn't afraid to keep pushing (and pushing) boundaries. In other words, your typical questionably-written virginal slut male fantasy. Then you have the tsundere girl with a bad case of RBF but presumably she's that way because of some past trauma and is really a super sweet girl with a heart of gold hidden underneath all the layers of bitch. Splash in a "lesbian" couple in name only and the poster child of all Pan-Asian stereotypes even though she's ostensibly Japanese. Seriously, no idea what her personality is, or what her purpose in the game is other than to demonstrate that the author probably watches too much anime.

And then finally, there's Becca. And what do you even say about deus ex Becca? She's every Mary Sue trope wrapped up in a pair of skinny jeans. Apparently she's more put together than her own dad, knows exactly what she wants and how to get it (no matter how far-fetched it is), can see right through the MC and get him to do what she wants, is some kind of master "manipulator"—which, because the author doesn't know how to write a master manipulator convincingly, really just means that everyone else is dumbed way down so she can unveil some nebulous master plan which wouldn't work if any of the characters would act like responsible adults. Ring her up whenever you need to move to your next plot point because no one else has any ability to do anything for themselves.

And yet somehow she's the highlight of the story!

In any well written VN, she would be an annoying, kinda kooky side character that you can hopefully ignore. But because of how mundane, slow, and boring some of the story progression is, her presence is a welcomed break from all the talks about food prep and sleeping arrangements.

Having said all that, you have to commend the author for putting forth what is obviously a good amount of effort in developing and maintaining this visual novel. It's no small amount of work, and it shows in that it gives you many hours of above average entertainment. But it needs a lot of polish to elevate the game from long-winded distraction on a slow day to a memorable, engaging story that will stick with you.