VN - Ren'Py - Single Again [v1.24.3] [Clever name games]

This is one of those games I both loved and hated.
I stayed engaged for the majority of the story but found that I had to start skipping dialogue cause of how repetitive the MC mental behavior of flip flopping emotions was (smells of a severe personality disorder). Roughly half way through the play through I found that I was skipping the internal dialogue and some of the dialogue of the MC and most dream sequences as they no longer felt like they contributed to the continuation of the story and had that repetitive feel. The way the MC internal monologue happens is something I am seeing a lot of and it doesn't sit well in most of them, it's a hard thing for someone to capture without making the MC look and feel like a fucking weak willed pussy who only gets the woman out of sheer luck rather than through any true effort on the MC's part.
The author seams to be on the cusp of being able to really give the individual characters distinctly different personalities but there is a single mindedness that creeps in making the characters feel somewhat generic, but this author has down far better than many others with being able to give some characteristics to the individuals that gives them some individuality. I have never encountered someone who uses more variations of 'Mmm', 'Mhmm..', or other variations of that as a dialogue from all characters.
Regardless of the faults I find with this game I did enjoy the time I spent in it and was pleasantly surprised by the amount the creator has done on this and will be looking at future updates.

If you're a person who thinks toxic masculinity is a myth you might not enjoy this title at all and feel like the MC is a beta cuck of some sort.

This game is 5 gigs and if you take out all the MC whining and the useless dialog that gets brought up time and time again for no reason the game would probably only be 1.3 gigs.

The game started out great and I was looking forward to every update but the last few updates have gotten more and more of just the MC crying about stuff that he has been crying about since day one and just waiting for becca to come over and hold his hand why she tells him what to do.

If you love looking at pictures of a wall for twenty plus minutes or the back of someones head for no joke about one hundred lines of dialog this is the game for you.

If a game reaches the point where I have to hold down CTRL because I can't stand to listen to another word out of the main character, there can be only one rating to give it. This game has one of the 10 most irritating protagonists of any game that I have ever played. The writer seriously needs an editor they trust who is willing to say no to them.

A game you should only play if you're comfortable with unren, and willing to skip through a lot of dialogue.

If you'd asked me a few months ago this would have been a solid 4 stars. If you'd asked me a few months before that it would have been pushing five. This is a game that started off strong, but the longer it goes, the more its inherent flaws undermine it.

On the surface everything seems destined for a high rating. You're the (step/adoptive) father of three girls. The youngest is innocent and sexually curious. The middle is rebellious but looking to be tamed. The oldest is mature and romantic .There are sexy side-pieces to distract you. There are cute models and well-made renders. There is good writing and well-defined characters with story arcs. There's a recognizable plot. What's stopping this from hitting five stars?

The best way I can describe it is that the MC is not the protagonist of the story. He's he point-of-view character, but he is not the character that drives the action forward or directs the story. The MC is at every step the person the story happens to.

There's an alternative universe where there's a far more successfully executed version of this game with a female MC (or multiple female MCs), where after it was done the author thought "what if I tell this story from the father's perspective?" and that spin-off became Single Again.

On the surface this sounds like an interesting premise for a game. What if [successful incest game] but the MC was the seducee rather than the seducer? And for a while it is. But there are two major flaws that add up over time.

The first is that the decisions you make as MC are disconnected from their consequences. Because the important decisions are being made by characters you don't control, all you can do is nudge those decisions in a very unpredictable way. Narrative forks will often depend on three or four unrelated dialogue choices you made entire episodes before. There is (kind of) an internal logic to how the game chooses certain scenes or outcomes, but the only way to understand it is to decompile the game, read the source code, and puzzle it out after the fact.

The second and more fatal problem is that the longer the game goes, the more it has to sit you (the MC) down and explain to you in long expository scenes what is going on and why. The further you go, the less you are taking part in the story and the more you are having a character explain what is going on to you.

The net result of this is a feeling of disconnection. More and more of the game becomes scenes that you skim past looking for something engaging, and then when you do hit some kind of payoff you wonder if the effort was worth it.

TL/DR- Relatively wholesome slow-burn daddy/daughter kink relationship game with a really shy/weak protagonist. Worth it- but the main character is extremely frustrating if you like more dominant archetypes.

1.23 edits: MC is back to being top 3 most pathetic VN protagonists in a 'cest daddy harem game. Think I finally fully lost my interest in this title.
1.20 review edits: MC was far less annoying and far more dominant than usual in this release. What an improvement.

Pros-
+ Really cute character models. (Especially Abby and Hanna)
+ Some particularly wholesome moments. Even teared up a bit occasionally. In a smut game- pretty rare stuff. The end bit in Lilith's side story was quite touching.
+ Sexual tension / build up is quite enjoyable. (this Abby x MC plot is driving me crazy with how hot it is- though the lesbianism makes it less hot.)
+Some really nice stuff here if you like praise kink. Complimenting the girls on various things and seeing their reactions is very hot.
+ Writing is above par. The prose for the actual sex scenes is a little boring though.
+A lot of the pathings seem like they could develop into hot scenarios. Hanna's route in particular is fun. I love the idea of her and her wife slowly giving up the rules they've been setting b/c they find they are wanting to break them themselves.
+ Mei's Pathing
+ Cute / Hot symbolic moments such as Lilith's piercing or Abby's increasingly lewd picture wall gallery.
+ The "kink choice" pathings pretty dynamically effect scene content in 1.19 and 1.20.

Neutral:

Spoiler: Some might find the virginity tag misleading.

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* Some players will be upset about the dildo scenes.

Cons:
-The ratio of the MC internal monologue vs shit actually happening in the game is too damn high. The MC's reluctance should be shown in a way that doesn't brow-beat the reader with the same concept 5,000 times.
- MC is supposed to be a 39 year old adult but he looks and acts like a stuttering school-boy. Horse cock triages that and makes him feel somewhat powerful- otherwise he'd look super wimpy. (Post 1.9 he looks a lot better).
-All the sex dreams ect spoil the actual events happening in game. Feels pretty uninspired to simultaneously edge the player with sexual tension / build up just to have the first actual scene b/t the MC and a character be in a fucking dream sequence.
-If you don't like seeing your gal with other men you should probably skip Lilith's side story. (It is a separate game- buts still canon)
-A lot of the plots just fall into the MCs lap. It'd be nicer if he could assert himself and actually make some stuff happen on his own. All this free stuff he keeps getting is annoying. (Alimony, Free apartment, free house, free money, free car). Bro should be working *himself* to make a better life for his girls- that is a big part of the daddy/daughter vibe.
- I don't see what the point of the bad ends are. Its just lazy writing. (Exception; the Lilith bad end if you don't accept her advances did a lot narratively)

Suggestions:
~I get why the author has made the MC so indecisive and passive in regards to the sexual progression of the daughter characters, but he should not be like that in other aspects of the game as well. Adding segments where he can be aggressive, assertive, and protective outside the scope of the relationship build-up would help the game a a lot by 1) Showing he isn't just a huge bitch 2) enhancing the player's sense of MC-Kun being torn about his relationships with his daughters specifically since he isn't ALWAYS a doormat- he is only a doormat in the context of those relationships.
~Eventually add some more dominant sexual content for the MC. These girls need to be fucked into the floorboards on the daily and then given a hot-chocolate, a cuddle, and a hand-hold afterwards. They want a daddy. Let them have one. MC is too weak in the scene content. (This improved a lot in the latest release.)

Soooo glad that it's not a sex but characters driven story. It's so well written, made me laugh many times. Protagonists and their emotions / feelings are so natural and although girls' natures are stereotypical for VN, writer gave them much more depth and human factor than most titles there are to found around.

Thank you, you do really great job with this one.

Review as of 1.17

- Story concept is pretty good overall. I don't mind the slow pace so long as it's going somewhere. Unfortunately, this one only feels like it's moving forward at a reasonable speed if you skip through all the monologue nonsense, otherwise it feels like a snails pace.

- Writing is bad. Spelling and grammar are pretty good overall, a few mistakes here and there, but nothing major. The MC is incredibly annoying with at least half of the game being inner monologue that repeats itself over and over and then the MC talks about everything that was written in monologue to nearly everyone he talks to and repeats himself several times to the same person too.

- Renders used to be good, then somehow it got worse with alien looking females with giant scary looking eyelashes and buggy eyes that the light bleeds through and some having ugly hair styles and every face pretty much looks the same now.

- The personalities of the females are likeable and there's at least some major differences between all of them. Like most AVNs though, they're all horny monkeys and are obsessed with the loser MC.

Overall, this games seems to be going down hill and it doesn't appear like the dev has any interest in making any changes to the major issues this game has. For me, this game sits somewhere between 2 and 3 stars, so I rounded up to 3.

pretty... good! this game surprised me, and I can't wait to see where it takes us, next..

the score:

***** - Great story. Even though the narrative remains a "porn game" it is well written. Excellent dialogues characters arch well thought out story. excellent "incest-y" plot Top notch. Slow burn, too many dreams
*** Good visuals and animation.
***** plausible characters (for a porn game)
*** cliché porn game big dick.
*** choices: very few, if you want a somewhat "plausible" harem game for beta males, you won't find anything better. However, MC is painfully "PC" with his girls for a porn game (not real life). IF in contrast you do like any sort of corruption, dominance, trickery - turn elsewhere. you won't change his character, you can only unlock certain (side) scenes to the story

Conclusion: support Dev if you can!

I understand where a lot of the critisism in the other reviews comes from. If slow burn fluff isn't your thing this story won't hold you at all, but for me, who comes to these kind of games from the hundreds of thousands of word fanfic world, these kind of games are exactly why I'm on this site.

I find the characters to be beyond wonderful. Yes there are a few scenes that aren't perfect in my opinion, but the vast majority are consistent character builders or just pure fluff. Some reviewers have complained that it's all talk and the story doesn't progress, but when you're built up to care about the characters nothing fluff scenes are equivalent to sex scenes. In most games sex scenes don't actively progress the story (with some exceptions) they come about between the story elements, and fluff is the same way. Fluff is enjoyable in and of itself if you like that, and I love it.

This is definitely a favourite of mine, and if you're a fluff lover like me, then it will be for you too.

This used to be a 5/5 for me, but as time has gone on, the biggest issue for me, the protagonist, has become more and more glaring.

The visuals won't be everyone's thing, but they have their own charm. The models and lighting do get better later on in the story, as do the animations. The characterisation (other than the protagonist) is very good, all of the girls have depth and their own distinct, charming personalities.

Now, the protagonist. He is severely lacking in confidence, decisiveness, and willpower. He's also painfully dense, not just when it comes to the girls but often just life in general, despite having twice the life experience as the other characters. He feels like a passenger in the story, there is no sense of urgency from his character, he doesn't even really have any goals. Instead, he's dragged kicking and screaming from plot point to plot point by the characters around him, endlessly second guessing himself at every possible opportunity.

This wasn't such a problem early on, but at this stage of the game it's just becoming frustrating, reading the same stuttering dialogue over and over again from a dithering protagonist who refuses to develop or grow alongside the other characters.

(limited spoilers about main story setting ahead)

Single Again (v1.17) is beautifully written tale of a seemingly hopeless romantic who lost his best friend, and high school sweet heart turned wife. A few short years after their daughter was born his wife dies tragically . He later marries his high school ex-girlfriend despite having 3 daughters of her own. Within the first few years they have a beautiful family and for the most part, they are happy, until things take a turn for the worst years later. Divorce ensues and you experience the trauma and hardship these girls (and other kids) have to endure during a divorce.

During this heartfelt, warming, and beautifully written tale, you'll live the life of our mild mannered, good natured, and hopeful MC as he attempts to keep his family together through hardships, and win the heart of someone close to him, whom he loves most dear.

This beautiful story brought tears to my eyes a few times, and made me laugh even more. This story was so riveting and I kept rooting for the MC during every struggle. I even found myself getting frustrated for him when he was so naive that he wasn't able to pick up on subtle social cues at times, and missed the big picture. This is riveting! I couldn't stop playing, b/c I wanted to see the story unfold!

Originally I wasn't too sure due to the models for the characters. The design style isn't exactly normal with their larger than life eyes and heads, and proportions, but it grows on you; after a short time, I liked it!


I can't wait to see how this story turns out!
This is definitely on my list for, "Must Play" games. My fiancé even enjoyed it, and recommended it to a few of her friends and even her her cousins! (nothing, kinky, it's just that good!

Using the BB brother model for the MC and an Eric model which may or may not be someone trying to cuck you. For an incest game, not a great start. Read through text for 30 minutes and got a nipple scene and a scene where the MC jerks off, which means there's a higher dick than pussy ratio already. There is a ton more text where nothing happens so I used the skip for a few minutes before the next scene occured which lead to a lot more text afterwards.

The female models are not outstanding but acceptable. Story is ok. No game sounds. Having to click to continue when there's only 1 choice is annoying. Having to click when there's 3 choices that make no difference to the gameplay is also annoying. Both of these should be removed.

Note: I will rate 5 for games that I think are worth the download (even if incomplete or imperfect) and 1 for games that I think are not worth wasting time (although in my text I talk about their positive aspects).

The game has no music or sounds. 3DCG is pretty basic, and I didn't really like the girls' cartoonish style. girls face looks like a doll and despite making them look younger, it has no sex appeal. The animations even look a little worse than the static images. They look like robots! Yes, it's hard to find good animations in VNs. So you can't ask for much.

In the tutorial it is said that the focus of this visual novel is on the characters and story. And if you are looking for "fun stuff" this game is not for you. However, the developer should know that QUANTITY IS NOT QUALITY. He fills the game with text, dialogue, thoughts, useless scenes, parallel characters and situations that add nothing in any way. They could remove 70% of the texts and scenes and it would still be THE SAME GAME with the same story and the same character development (which is terrible). And we have the MC's dreams that are about 25-30% of the game. That could be completely cut.
The game gives you options for topics for conversation, but you must click on 3. So it's not a real choice. I hate it when they do that, and the game does it several times, after many texts in which it doesn't give us any choice.

The game rarely gives you options to do something naughty, which always results in GAME OVER. Basically, girls are throwing themselves at you, looking at and talking about your dick, for example. And "corrupting" you. But if you try to do the same with them it's game over. In other words, the game is a kinect novel where your stepdaughters want to have sex with you (but you have no control). This doesn't happen right at the beginning, which is a positive point, but after hundreds of boring dialogues, which are repeated on the same subjects and same dull sense of humor. His relationship with them is not captivating and you are forced to read their interaction dozens, hundreds of times. I would rather play that abandoned game with a boy named Bobby, albeit incomplete, and have to go through all the grinding and repeated actions, than be forced to read all the dialogue and thoughts in this game! I played about 25% of this game reading, and the rest was skipping and still my finger got tired of holding down the crtl. And when I stopped pressing to read something, IT WAS THE SAME THING they talked about dozens of dialogues before.

The characters are totally inconsistent. One of the sisters keeps calling the other "prude" all the time, but in the biography we learn that they have had sex all these years sharing the same room. Is that being prudent??? o_o The girl who is a "prude" says to "dad: dad I'm going to take a shower, but no peeks ok?" What daughter would say that to her father? The stepfather MC doesn't look like a father. Stepdaughters don't look like stepdaughters. Yes, many VNs are poorly written and inconsistent, but they don't say their focus is on the story and characters.

I don't recommend this game. And if you download it, leave the skip unseen texts pressed because you won't miss ANYTHING. There are occasional sexually arousing situations, but the truth is that by the time they happen, you're already tired of the characters.

Right at the beginning we see the glaring inconsistencies:

*Almost a Top Tier Game - just short of the 5 star rating*

Ok... lets start with the positives...

1) Story and writing is very good, not engrish, and i actually found myself reading the dialog and get invested in the characters which i can only say for a small proportion of games on this site.

2) Renders and animations are very good. Models are unique and the animations are plentiful and smooth... i would say that there is some lag on lower powered devices, but on newer devices they are fine.

3) Plenty of content - its a fairly slow burn at the start but you can tell this is an established game and as of version 1.16, there is a fair few hours game time and a lot of lewd animations so no issues there.

NEGATIVES

1) Updates are slow. I do subscribe to a couple of content creators and i would consider subscribing to this project if the updates were quicker... but its months and months between updates which is not quick enough in my opinion.

2) This one is a minor quirk, but the MC is not related to any of the characters so the incest tag is not required - adopted and step daughters maybe slightly taboo but do not class as incest.

3) the MC is a bit of a pushover, he comes across as a bit of a wimp, could be more confident without ruining the story.

Nutshell... good game, pretty well paced... would be one of the best games on this site if the updates were quicker.

A strange one. First off, as far as I am aware, there's no incest in it. MC's "daughters" are one adopted daughter and two step-daughters.

Visuals are mediocre and there's a change of DAZ versions during the game. The models themselves are fine with some welcome variety between thicc and slim.

The prose starts out all right, but with time there's a decrease in quality and an increase in quantity. My mind started wandering during reading because there's basically nothing in the text to hold my interest anymore. They're stating the same things over and over, without any development.

The story develops slowly, which is fine, but then kind of comes to a stop and just keeps reiterating the same, which is not. The lack in sexual content with the "daughters" is remedied by side characters or dream/fantasy versions of characters. That's a method many VNs use, but I personally don't care for those scenes, unless there has been some meaningful exposure to the included characters.

My biggest gripe is with MC and the basic setting of the story, which should have been a red flag to me. MC is a complete and total pushover with apparently no desires other than to fulfill the wishes of some woman around him. He never takes the initiative, romantically or sexually, he never confronts his thoughts and emotions or those of the people around him, he's just there. Even his proclamied fatherly love is shallow, because he is too spineless to enable himself to take care of his "daughters". He expected to get into serious financial trouble and did fuck all to find a solution or make sure that doesn't happen. Some VNs have a weak protagonist, who conquers his weaknesses to be able to care for his loved ones. This one just has a weak protagonist.

Well this is my first rewiew but this just has became one of my favorit games the setting of a father that got out of a marriage and in the aftermath of it told his adopted daughter of his first marriag that he wasn´t her biological father opend them both little by little for the possebilety of "something" between them to than letting his step daughters of the second marriag to fullfill there kind of love with him is a lot more realistic than what most incest themed games offer

here are also some points liked:

+ more sex patners than the daughters but not too many to make them two-dimensional fuck toys
+ the story is interseting there are a lot of games I skip thru till the sex because they just don´t feel like more than some flavor between the sex but not for this game
+ they are all over 18 and have lifes that show that they are adults

and hier is the only negative point I have agenst the game :

- the girl Lilith seems to hate her body but it seems to not only be her but also her sister and her boyfriend think of her as not femenin or that she looks boyish but of all the body typs in the game I think she looks the best so seeing my ideal body typ getting shamed is a bit sad even if this is one of the games with more normal body typs

play 1.16 with a french trad 1.15 (which explains my poor written English, sorry)

story: 3/5 A good story very well written, but not revolutionary, with unfortunately far too many lengths and speeches that are repeated again and again or that are lengthened for nothing.
In addition, unfortunately the translation I had was not great (but that's not the game's fault).

characters: 5/5 All the characters are very "stereotypical" but are very well written each in their own way, for me this is THE strong point of the game

sex scene: 4/5 They are really good, of a very good length and very erotic! But I really can't give them 5 for the reason mentioned above, we really expect them too much, several hours of play between each.

renders: 3.5/5 I really had a hard time with the "childish" aspect that it gives to the characters, and I really didn't think I could get used to it, but the writing helped, I was surprised, because finally, it happened, I got used to it. The expressions are very well done.

animation: 4/5 They are really good, maybe a bit too "fast" fps at times, but it's better than the other way around

sound: Unfortunately no sounds, no music.

gameplay: 3/5 We are bored, not much to do except read again and again, there are many choices, but melted into so much reading that their importance is not really felt

I´m liking it.
Single dad with one adopted daughter and 2 stepdaughters. You know how it goes. It´s a bit annoying that the developer writes thoughts about the guilt but then blurs it with action. What makes a real incestual relashionship (and a shrink worthy one) is family not blood. I like these type of games but the relashionships need to be damaged.

The real annoying part is that the MC is a big dick beta loser (minus 1 star)

The hotties are nice so try it.

Edit: 23/11/2022 - Newest update and the MC is so infuriating. If this guy existed no way he´d get pussy. Minus another star.

Edit: 08/03/2023 - 1.19 - At least cuckholds are losers and embrace it. This MC i dont know. This story should end in suicide. Just saying. - 1 star.
Jaye and Mallory! + 1 star! oh no! Multiverse Jaye and Mallory - these make no sense! - 1 star!

I was not sold at first, not for a while. I didn't like any of the characters, except for Abigail, which hooked me from the start. Later, I grew to love the other involved characters. I'm used to slow burn stories, I enjoy them, and this one seemed to rush one character pair initially, but then slowed down, and other pairs were brought into the fold. The writing shines towards the middle of the story, in which the protagonist and his plight is made very believable. I actually teared up several times, and that hasn't happened to me in any other story (any recommendations would be nice haha).

Characters: A-
Character Models: B+
Environments: B+
Story: A-
Writing: A
Sex: A+ (animations included)

Superb. Will fap again.

I don't need to discuss the positives, that is clearly repeated over and over with the posts below. The reason people new to this game should re-consider is the way the MC is portrayed.
This is a ground hog day of the moral compas of the MC, where he crosses a boundry one day, only to repeat the same objections, and fight tooth and nail to prevent anything sexual happening with three young girls (who all want the MC sexually no matter what) the very next day.
MC's literally the only one besides the ex-wife who even knows the previous relation he had with the girls...via marriage, not blood, but acts like if he's caught doing anything other than talking to them in public, he'll get drawn and quartered by public outrage.
It is an interesting aspect TBH at the start, but it's a hang-up that the MC can't get over, no matter what happens, or logic presented. It gets really old and a bit like nails on a chalkboard to a story that otherwise would be really good without it.