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

It's a little hard to classify what kind of story this is. The narrative is mainly about an unconventional family, and how they love each other.

Along the way you meet some interesting people, and see how they all affect each other's lives. There will be some struggles, both internal and external conflict, and trying to figure out a new family dynamic. Within this story you'll see how love can come from unexpected places, how you should follow your heart, and how indulging your kinks can be fun, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.

This visual novel has some of my favorite characters in it. Whether you're looking for smart and sassy, fiercely protective, sarcastic, quick-tempered, sexy yet insecure, naive and lovable, or shy and submissive, there's a whole range of personalities to be found in this portrayal. Certainly doesn't hurt that they're attractive either.

If this sounds like something you might enjoy, why not give it a try?
In my humble opinion, it's a story worth reading.

+ adorable girls
+ story is ok, sometimes emotional

- no music (rare thing these days)
- worst MC i ever played. He is a pathetic pussy scared of everything who also panic all the time. If you consider his age and life experience it's a real disaster. How you can create something like "this"? Also, his endless schizophrenic/paranoid inner thoughts are so fucking annoying
- lewd scenes are boring and poorly written. They are short and there is too much talking about meaningless things during them. A lot of time you will see mc and his pathetic: "we can't do it, please pleeeeaseee stop" etc. His idiotic behavior really ruin all of these scenes.. not to mention he NEVER make first move like a normal man
- forced lesbian content, a big no for shit like this
- forced sharing content, lesbian cucks will be happy, that's for sure
- lack of important choices
- Vanessa, hottest girl in this game is "pure lesbian" yea.. real is a natural reaction for this crap
- cockblocking
- too much text, literally.. instead of wrapping things up in a few sentences they go on and on.. sometimes about exactly the same damn things they already talked before.. just MOVE ON
- Abby, looks like dev completely stuck with this character and doesn't know how to progress her relationship with mc. At the begining everything went smoothly, but later it's just stopped, nothing happens anymore, no progress. To me looks like dev lost interest in her

IF you have enough patience to play as pathetic illusion of man who is also a cuck, you could try this avn - otherwise stay away from this. 1 star

This is OK, it just triggers far too many of my pet peeves. The review Filipis wrote neatly summarizes my overall feelings. I don't particularly care about complex, branching story lines. They're SO much harder to write and keep meaningful. Additionally, the more branches and complexity, the more likely of you missing content because of branches introduced that you DON'T want to see. For example, I would have never wanted to see anything involving Lilly and Justin and the MC, but it is something that could have been added and as Filipis mentioned seeemed like it may have been going that way and then didn't. Complex branching also requires significant time on writing, coding and rendering time spent on content that is not the main story and not necessarily (but could be potentially something their audience would enjoy). Even these devs working specifically on what their paying customers decide they should work on (via patron's voting on Patreon polls) almost universally gets review bombed and a swarm of negative comments with every update by a displeased vocal minority. I'm fine with illusion of choice kinetic novels. I hate making branch saves and replaying crap to see all the content. God Bless Sancho and the other modders who assist in offering "MOD: ALL" options when devs want to pigeonhole me. I get it. I assume the issue lies with me, and it's my personal tastes that put me in the "wrong" here.

My biggest issue with this game is the MC has to be in his late 30's or early 40's but is written like a 12-year-old virgin who spent a lifetime eating lead paint chips and has brain damage because of it. The OVERWHELMING amount of repetitious inner monologue in this script is vomit-inducing. The same lines getting used over and over. Somehow, after just spending an entire afternoon discussing a subject with Becca (the eldest daughter) the next morning, the MC's plan for the day is to... visit Becca to discuss the SAME subject but with a side of new info from a dream from the previous night, to have the same explanations given by Becca as the previous afternoon and the same 12-year-old virgin response by the MC interspersed with COPIOUS amounts of ellipsis framed inner monologues repeating back summaries of what we just read and regurgitation of the forced virgin-like awkwardness (I get it, you REALLY want us to feel awkward here). It's frustrating, how almost all of their conversations are the same things being said over and over because the MC is written as too much of a moron to connect the obvious and well-indicated dots that Becca is pointing out. They could have written it as the MC understands what she is trying to do but is uncomfortable or has issues with his role in her end goal, but that is more difficult to write than turning your MC into Goofy and just having him say, "Gorsh! H'yuk!" all the time and act like an ignorant idiot. It throws me back to the bedtime end-of-day summaries from Dating My Daughter and Melody used to aggravate me, by reviewing, at length, stuff that just happend mere minutes ago like it's necessary to keep this mass amount of information organized and isn't just filler. In the case of this game, it's like a mother bird feeding her babies. This game just chews up the dialogue it wants me to believe or feel, then rams its beak down my throat and pukes it in over and over and over and over again. Even self-inserting into the MC's role, the awkwardness feels forced and absurdly heavy-handed in the context of Abigail and Rebecca. Lilly's arc is the most believable. One could argue with Abigail that the MC raised her as his own from birth, loved her as a daughter before she was even born - so the reluctance and awkwardness is a natural response - regardless of whatever truths and realities eventually reveal themselves. And to that, I say, "Woody Allen's wife."
*Edit: Spelling

**Update**
This just gets worse and worse with the MC. I've lowered this to 2 stars from 3. The MC is just a piece of shit of a human being and not at all a believable character. If you fancy being a vacillating, gaslighting, immature ignoramus - then this game is for you. If there was any justice in this world, Darwinism would have spared Jessica and killed the MC.

Single Again [1.24.1] is a classic (faux) incest harem AVN where you take on the role of a 40 year-old widower and divorcee. You will be responsible for taking care of three "daughters"; one of which you adopted and other two which are step-daughters. No blood relations here, so those looking for the real deal (as ironic as that sounds) will be left starving.

The Good:

• Renders start out decent but improve as time goes on, along with animations that get more fluid. They are not ultra-realistic like some of the select few VNs on this site, but that is also a good thing. We all know how long those take for a single update.
• Fetish/Fantasy elements are taken to the maximum; the girls (all but one, but that will also happen eventually) are all slowly "corrupted" into jumping your bones on sight, and there is even talk of children for the pregnancy enjoyers - though that particular fetish is likely to be saved for endings only.

The Bad:

• Story: the only relevant plot here is figuring out which "decision" to make so you get your preferred path. There is nothing happening to make that difficult to do, there is no one trying to stop you from achieving your dreams. Feels like a simple dating simulator since the stakes are non-existent; And when there are no stakes, the story here can end at anytime and you could get a reasonably satisfying epilogue. Maybe this isn't a VN you play for the story, but I think it worth mentioning for those looking for a bit more... spice.
  • Also: beware of wrong decisions at the start of the game, as there are definitive game overs in the beginning. Luckily the dev realized this was wrong (at least I hope they did) as it doesn't seem like you could fail past a certain point.

The Ugly:

• Bad at being a VN: There are plenty of choices early on that don't translate to anything meaningful in the long run. Like others have mentioned, a decent portion of given possible answers to pick from are window dressings, no consequences either way you go. I am not asking for a lot here, am I? That dialogue choices in a VN result in actual branching? But I guess that would mean this game would in turn be boring as hell, given how much "empty" dialogue there is, especially if we took away all the fake choices as well. Seriously, you will get bored & frustrated at some points, be prepared for slogging through a lot of banter.
• A personal pet peeve:
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Verdict: This VN is filled with enjoyable "incest" content, harem building and pregnancy talk, but as the ol' saying goes: it's ocean wide, but puddle deep. Plenty of stuff to get your rocks off, but not memorable in any way outiside of that. Is that good? I'd say no, as each VN should be a memorable experience, but there is not a single element of this game that stands out above the rest.

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I had fun discovering the girls around the MC. On the other hand, certain aspects of the MC put me off. The incessant questions and hesitations, the no fun side... Apart from his attributes he doesn't have much appeal. Worse, when he "teaches" sex stuff without going all the way, it's not really convincing... Anyway, I love Becca and Aby, as well as Beth. The whole thing lacks really interesting dialogue, and the MC repeats himself over and over while being reassured by Becca (very patient...).
Over than that, good job on the girls, a bunch of variety (size, breasts, etc...).

Firstly, I am biased about this one:

The game started off as gold, it was so good that despite the intro/plot setup being based on NTR (neither original nor something I usually support). Despite that, I was happy to give Patreon support to the game, which continued until the Lillith NTR Chapter, which, despite not being included in the main game, (it downloaded as a separate executable to avoid the NTR tag) is Canon to the story.

At the time I felt that taking an extra step on not putting a chapter in the main game was misleading at best, and more likely dishonest. So I stopped support for the game but still played updates occasionally.

So my bias, support to - not support of the game aside;

The writing is very well done, but I don't enjoy the direction it is going. The story, while well written from a grammatical and syntax viewpoint, tends to have leaps in logic, brushing over some seemingly very relevant points, while often focusing heavily on the irrelevant points.

The MC's hang-ups which made some sense in the first parts of the story, are well past the point where they should be a focus. Additionally, the interaction with most of the girls gives the illusion of choice at best, and even then not very well.

The game gives choices about random minor things, like what to cook for breakfast. But gives zero player agency on subjects like Harem members having sexual relations with people outside of the harem.

This lack of ability to meaningfully direct the story builds frustration as the game proceeds. The MC makes choices that the player may not agree with regarding sexual preference, acceptance, and sharing of partners. This lack of agency for decisions is made all the worse by the game focusing on these elements and the MC's encouragement of them. All the while the player is being asked "Do you want meaningless A, or meaningless B".

To give an example that is NOT in the game;

Would you like to drink a red wine or a white wine while you watch TV in the living room, as your girlfriend has sex with someone else in your bedroom?

I truly enjoyed this game in the past and avoided giving a review in the hopes that the direction would return to something that I enjoy more, both from a technical standpoint and content-wise. Sadly, this latest update is likely the final straw for me, the negatives have reached the point where I don't care enough to follow the game or hold out any hope that it will get better.

Ultimately, it's just proven to be a waste of time, and in my case, money.

Interesting story, nice looking characters, annoying as F*CK Main Character! I honestly was enjoying the story, but the MC drove me nuts! I just couldn't finish the latest update because I knew it wouldn't end, and from the comments I've read, it hasn't. If anything, other things started coming into play that made it worse. If what I read is true, I'm glad I let this one go. My only advice to new readers is, READ the comments! They will help you gage weather or not this AVN is for you.

Meh, decent game if you have nothing else to play.

With just one change it would gain two more stars tho: Maybe not have the MC be written as the most insufferable, obnoxious, dimwitted idiot ever.

Not to mention how the author insists on the MC having a 2000 word inner monologue after every scene. Seriously, shut up! I was there, I know what happened two minutes ago, why the fuck are you telling me again?!

Definitely a story heavy game, so if you're after quick fap fodder, avoid. But, if you do enjoy stories, it's a must have. Ero scenes take a while to get going, but come very frequently once they do. The animation quality and models also improve dramatically as the story progresses. Definitely looking forward to more.

Rating less than 1 star isn't possible, if you like tragedy porn than go for it, but I don't. The author tried to portray mc as a nice guy but instead, he portrayed him as a miserable middle-aged man. On one hand you'll pity him on other you'll feel like you deserve it for being this stupid. Act like a floor mat and people will treat you as such

TLDR; It's decent, some sex scenes are great but takes a long time to get to that point and the MC is...insufferable at best. Read if you have nothing else to read, be prepared for painfully slow plot progression with way too much dialogue. Also NOT A QUICK FAP STORY

Story: It's alright, the dilemma the MC has is very realistic but his behavior becomes borderline intolerable as you continue to read. More on that later. The author is seemingly dragging on the story for some reason unbeknownst to me. There has been zero progression with one character for a very long time, other than small hints of her behavior changing. Other than that no complaints, better pacing would be nice though

Characters: No complaints except for the MC. The MC is a whiny nearly 40 year old. His thoughts and feelings at first are super understandable but his constant freakouts on the sisters are annoying. Not only that but the dilemma I referenced is his basis for legit every single whiny outburst he has. "She CAN'T be included in this!" to the same character at least 10 times before he realizes she understands. He proceeds to set his foot down that his adoptive daughter cannot be included but is perfectly okay with letting one of the BLOOD RELATED SISTERS tempt the other sexually. He makes zero sense and at times is a totally different character. To put it frankly, he blows as a protagonist and does nothing but drags the whole production down. In my personal opinion, he needs a rework but this far into development that's very unlikely.

Sex Scenes: Meh. All the build up at the beginning and most of the first few scenes were very vanilla with very little flair. Nothing wrong with that but the lack of variety and quantity of sex scenes really drags down the production too. It doesn't have to be a fuckfest but it could use a few more sex scenes and with this much development time, a few more fetishes would be nice to spice things up.

Art: Takes a bit to get used to and the differences in faces for say Vanessa and Abigail are certainly an artistic liberty. Overall no complaints

Sound: There's nothing. Nada. On something with nearly 4 years of development time, there's nothing. Normally I don't care but the lack of anything at all combined with a long read time made it extra monotonous at times

Overall: Low 3/5


If the author reads this, please recognize I am not trying to destroy or drag down your work. You have a good basis here, it just needs work. Your MC is divisive as evidenced by the many complaints I've seen and my own complaints. The story is not moving. There's been almost zero real progress with Abigail in a very long time, since before Lilith was a part of the whole thing. Yeah she's the "main boss" for the whole thing but dragging out the story, continually having MC piss readers off due to his constant jumps in logic and back and forth with the moral dilemma that makes zero sense considering the facts at this point in said story. All of that is truly withholding this from being one of the hidden gems on the site/ in the scene.

Brutally painful to play. The rationale of the MC is completely illogical and contradictory. "I wont sleep with my step-daughter because shes like a daughter and thats like family, but you go ahead and have sex with your blood sister." The MC is a total cuck. This should absolutely have an NTR warning. I felt myself age, as the painfully slow and excessive storyline progressed,

The writing is generally pretty good but for crying out loud I wish that the MC wouldn't internally recap events every five minutes. I know what happened, I was there.

Also as much as I appreciate that the MC is torn over his / his daughters feelings, far too many words are spent establishing this. Ain't saying he should just flip a switch and get to fuckin' em quicker, but after a certain point I think the struggle is established enough that continually hammering on about it gets a bit grating. The MC is WAY too much of a neurotic little bitch.

Visually the game is fine. Going in I was hesitant about the girls having big ol' Battle Angel Alita style eyes, but after a while you don't really think of it. Honestly I hate the MCs face more. Thankfully you don't see it much, but if you've played enough of these games you've seen his weaselly ass mug 1000 times.

Audio? There is none at the time of writing and that's perfectly fine. I'd rather have no audio than audio I'm just going to mute anyway.

Edit: I initially rated it a 4 but the more I play the less I can tolerate the colossal, whining pussy that is the main character. Enough so that I feel the need to dock it a point and rescind my wholehearted recommendation. It's still a solid game and worth a gander. Maybe it'll be for you, it just wasn't for me. I just frickin' can't with this guy.

Don't let the reviews fool you.

This game is a psychological horror of being a cuck where you wake up everyday, go to your home to watch your wife being fucked by an alpha male. After not being able to cope with it anymore your mind begins to make up defensive mechanism in the form of fairies that resemble an oversexualized version of your "daughters". They all want to bang you (and you as well even if you dont want to admit it).

Okay maybe what I described was the dream sequence and not the entire game. I will give you the good and the bad with the three most prevalent points. Then my opinion on the characters and how they fit in the story.

The good:

1. It's sort of a wholesome story where an everyday dad is trying his hardest to keep a connection with his step daughters after a brutal divorce.
2. You place yourself in the shoes of a man named Frank that wants nothing more than to make his loved ones happy.
3. This in turn makes them want to make you happy as well by giving you all they can give you.

The bad:

1. You are a weak submissive man that has no balls to stand up for himself and can't admit what he wants therefore your actions have little impact on the story.
2. This is being reinforced by the developer that basically guides you in a harem path you may or may not like.
3. You may dislike a character or two but you can never put them in their place / avoid them or even play favorites.

Characters+Story:

• Abigail is your daughter in the story she is the most submissive daughter out of the bunch. She is really sweet and kind and she keeps pushing the boundaries with Frank to get close to him even though he constantly he complains but actually enjoys it.
• Rebecca is the eldest step-daughter and a manipulative monster that runs rampant which is a bit concerning but she is lovable mastermind in the story. She sides with Frank and wants to get him a harem of daughters and is rather forceful about it.
• Lilith is the youngest step-daughter and a deplorable sexpest that coerces Abigail into a sexual relationship and on top of that is a cheater. She also has the gall to forbid you from having anything sexual with Abigail even to the point of assaulting you. You learn about the power dynamics from Rebecca and you can't help but wonder if Lilith was taking advantage of Abigails nature.
• Frank goes along with everything all love and peace and being subservient/passive and apologetic for everything. He has a desire for all of his daughters but keeps forcing Lilith and Abigail together. The worst part is that Rebecca and Lilith do all the groundwork for his sexual fantasy. But for some reason he needs to have countless confirmations to the annoyance of the audience even the characters. Then you sit there and find out, Frank is not even the biological father of Abigail. As he didn't have the balls to confess to his childhoof sweetheart before she got pregnant, Ofcourse the biological father wants nothing to do with his childhood sweetheart but good guy Frank steps up. Then in the current day he gets cucked by his ex-wife and then by his step daughter fucking his own "daughter" Abigail.
  Honestly, Frank is a fucking spineless loser and a cuck.

TL;DR:

I love choice and this game is devoid of that as you can't pick to avoid characters or have a favorite and you are too much into your own head. And I loathe the spineless main character and the broken Lilith. I just want to see the Abigail conclusion because that dynamic is the only interesting one but everything else I'd skip.

For these reasons I give it a 2/5.

A decent game being milked.

The renders are decent. The story is okay. But the narrative is dragging. With each update, progressively less is happening.

All the while, the updates are taking longer. So audiences are waiting more for less.

At the same time, for whatever reason, fan favourite characters are receive less and less attention. Instead, side characters have more content.

It's a decent VN. But it would benefit from:

• A better release schedule.
• An editor, who can tighten the dialogue.
• A writer, who can push for more interesting and eventful story beats.
• Reducing the focus on side characters.

The idea is amazing, the girls look amazing and even some of the side characters are amazing. But I have to give only 1 star because it is very obvious, how much the dev is miliking this.
This game is over 4 years old and you still have no sex with the main heroine, you still get updates with only teasing and no sex and you still have updates which are half based only on characters nobody cares about.
It is sad, that such a promising game goes the same way like so many else.

A decent game that is worth playing but just doesn't nail it....

Pros:

1. Cute girls
2. Models and nice, scenes are good
3. Dialogue is good, written well.

Cons:

1. TOO MUCH dialogue, waaay too much, sure it builds story and gives background, fleshes out characters, but the story is too simple to justify the reading!
2. The MC is a solid BETA, the story is written in such way to be such a slow burn, for the MC to somehow justify his relationships with everyone, almost everyone is on board but the MC kicks back...its incredibly frustrating and only drives to prolong the game in mundane ways, more dialogue and bullshit.
3. The game simply isn't fun, the MC is boring, he is not a fun character at all.

TLDR:

The story is so simplistic yet has been stretched to the very limit with the BETA MC and boring long winded dialogue you can't help but want to skip. Its incredibly uninteresting and there is nothing that sparks or ingites the play at any point to want to see whats next. There simply is little to any point to play the game, its not driven, its characters are boring, mostly the MC and the lewd scenes are good but not great, they very vanilla and they pretty much only stay that way.

Why bother being an incest game with no incest? not even a patch for it.
Honestly, I forgave the fact that Lilith and Rebecca were just step-daughters, I'd prefer if they were his actual daughters, but it's fine. But I feel like I was a good way's into the game before the "oh and Abby isn't actually you're daughter either"

and yes I'm aware that it is said on the front page, but it's behind a spoiler warning that as a player, I don't want to click in case there's something I don't want to see.

I just wasted like a good hour or two that I can't get back, what a piece of shit game

I like the story and the animations are good. The characters are well written and evolve little by little. There aren't too many characters, which allows you to get attached to each of them. I just hope a good ending (not too long, not too short).