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

I liked the idea of this game, so i tried to play it. And there was a few things that I liked.

- Like characters development. Relationships between daughters (except lesbian part), developing attachment to "dad", etc.. That was good.
- Girls were cute, especially Mieko. Becca was great, but it would be funnier if the MC had some balls and a much better sense of humor.
- I like these animations. A little weird, but cute
- I fell out laughing in a few moments, like the fairy-Abby was looking for MC balls.

But.........
- This pathetic "beta male" MC. Moron loser :/ Most of his actions and words are irritating and simple stupid. And his constant speeches, idiotic thoughts, dreams, excessive emotionality, moronic decisions, that he was constantly crying, whining, stuttering and that he repeated all of it endlessly, were too annoying and repulsive to be able to enjoy this game.
- Too bad the game developer has a fetish for short hair. It would be nice to have more variety among the MCs love interest..
- As much as I liked the relationship between daughters and this japanese girl, so the lesbian part was unnecessary. The same goes to sex toys. And it was too much. None of these girls were "oriented" only towards the MC. Beth and Nessa were ok, but you could stop there. It is a pity that many of these things were not optional, but imposed regardless of everything.
- It's also a shame that none of them were actually virgins. Even Mei, whom that sucker MC gave to Becca..
- Childhood friend, although she loved the MC, preferred to sleep with some jerks until she got pregnant. Slut-wife cheated on him, Abby fucked Lilly even when Lilith had a boyfriend and even after she fell in love with the MC. Lilly cheated on her boyfriend (even though she supposedly hated cheating), Becca preferred to have her first time with toys and then suck bunch of dicks, even though she loved MC and had a long-term plan to be with him. Even Mei, who loved MC and only wanted to be with him, also had her first time with toys and Becca. Someone here needs therapy..

This game had a lot of potential but is unplayable. I do not recommend her..

Really good work here and so far one of the best in my opinion.

I cannot find many flaws, but a lot to praise in this novel. However you should be aware of what you will experience here. This game is definitely one of the slowest burning slow burner i've ever saw. Allthough it burns pretty hot and promising and can deliver in the end. Be preperad to play hours before you see something serious with the main LI's and enjoy in the meantime some side characters and a lot of erotic and sexy banter with the "almost-doughters".

Yep correct, there are no real doughters involved. But honestly i don't get the complaints about this fact. One of the best achievements of the author is to make really credible characters and their realtionship to each other and the MC. Honestly never saw this as good anywhere else on this site as here.
And by this, the daddy-and-his-girl-relationship between them is working out pretty good and further down the road the taboo of having more with them, too. Basically it serves the whole kink, in a little more innocent way, without sinking the boat by letting the MC doing something illegal. Whoever has a problem with the point, where the girls, that practically are with you since they were born, act like being your doughter, call you dad, and so on - and fuck with you - aren't your real flesh and blood, has probably some issues.

Coming to the point, where some insecure virgins blabbering up with terms like "beta-cuck" about the MC, because he behaves pretty passive and tries to avoid sexual situations with the almost-doughters for a long time. Indeed it's a little bit over the top and can be frustrating. MC constantly backs off, when the girls approaching him; also the whole agency is not on him.
But i found it refreshing overall, tbh. However i might warn you, that you play a very passive role. You're not the one in charge everytime, you're not the main-earner and -provider, you don't own the house, you don't beat up some bad guys, you don't seduce anyone. I think it fits better the almost innocent fantasy, the author wants to deliver, where the break of the taboo wants to be justified and being consensual by all means - may it be the almost-incest- or the harem-situation. And this unusual situation happens to a pretty common man, not a superhero.

Those situations will be transported very slowly to the player. One of the girls even hate you on the beginning and it stays like that for quite a while. This leads to the point, where all characters are really unique and have the space to breathe. It's not one of those games, where you could exchange the LI's with each other, without recognize any differences. Not all of them hop on MC's dick on sight. Some of them also get angry about different situations and need time to settle in.

Speaking already about the unneccassy enormous dick of MC's, let's talk about the visuals of the characters. As mentioned, again we're confronted by a penis, that destroys not only any female it penetrates, but also easily any resistance the polygon meshes of the girls have, when trying to keep their form. Stupid and not really understandable decision. Even more, since the creator paid so much effort to not only build up a realistic scenario for hours of playtime, but also to make believable female models, that have (letting the big eyes beside) so realistic and credible proportions. And in the middle of it the goofy baseball-bat-dick. Lol.
But to summarize this point, besides the megablaster, the models are unique, feel real, nice to look at and are well done. Even on close-ups.

And last but not least, the sex. Allthough the game is a longer slow burner, the author makes sure to constantly feed you with erotic scenes, fantasies, peeks, inuendos, wet dreams, dirty memories and on a regular base with actual sex. While the game progress, the sexpart becomes more regular. However those are also definitely more gourmet menus, than a ton of fast food. There are often multiple scenes of foreplay and dirty talk before the act itself happens - and then culminate in a well inscenated climax, that is worth a comparison with professional porn movies. Its way beyond the "click anal sex > see one bad animation > see cum layer applied > end" many other games provide. Hats off.
(However no special kinks, except the obvious almost-incest one are served. I mean, if you are searching for something. Besides all of them are eager to swallow at the end, it's pretty vanilla)

Last and least, i recommend to play with the walkthrough mod. What is really bad and often senseless are the decisions, the player can make. Sometimes it's even necessary to choose an option that goes against all your intentions of playing a porn game and you don't want to miss out because of such stuff. Also pretty senseless, sometimes you get "decisions" with only one option. Like "get up", when a character wants you to come going somewhere. Maybe a little trick to involve the player a little more.
But yeah, this game is linear and besides some decisions, that clarify sexual preferences here and there, like choosing positions and partners, they could be took out.

Good job, hopefully this will be continued soon.

I love this game! The story line is great, the animation is good. The characters are all very believable.

I love the different characters and the many close-calls

Well done. looking forward to more...

Can't really go any higher than a 3 considering I hate the sex scenes.

I'll elaborate on that after the good and bad parts.

I did stop playing for a while because the MC's constant complaining got really annoying and went on far too long. Personal opinion but that should have been dropped after he'd started fucking them. The longer it went on the more annoying it got.

Apart from one of the most annoying characters since Navi from Zelda ... the rest are great.

All the girls are fantastic and the eldest makes an awesome wingman.

Plot isn't exactly gripping but it's not bad. All the chaacters do their part well. Side characters don't overstay their welcome apart from the lesbian couple. Being a lesbo you'd think i'd like them but they are the least beleivable characters i've seen in any story.

The main part of their story is actually pretty good. One is lesbian, the other is bi and the bi girl gets permission to play around with cock every now and then. I've seen couple do that so that part is fine and would be really well done apart from the frequency. At this point their relationship is looking more and more forced considering the bi girl fucks the MC more than her own girlfriend.

Nit picking on that part and it's easily overlooked so not really something I dislike it's just something I noted while playing.

Now, for the big reason I had to stop playing and one of my biggest hates in all adult gaming and one that makes me rage at devs more than anything.

Auto moving sex scenes. Usually it's devs adding scenes that don't loop so by the time i've got my vibe ready and a scene I like it's over.

This one has auto changing angles.

I see an ange I like and feel like I could jill off to and then it's moved and the next angle sucks and I lose interest. I don't know why devs ruin sex scenes, how hard is it to add one looping angle and let us move on to other angles on our own. I hate it, I hate it so much and it kills my enjoyment.

So, yeah. Story good, most characters great, enjoyable read but with an annoying as fuck MC and sex scenes I can't stand.

It's a damn shame because it has the makings of a solid game but I just can't overlook how annoying the MC got or the sex scenes I just can't enjoy.

Makes me feel bad trying other VN's out after playing this. Characters are charming as all hell. writing isn't over the top and feels pretty normal. lily turned out to be my favorite character. She reacts as normally as i expect her character to react to stuff. Very nice work cannot wait for more.

However i do agree with the masses that the MC is a little bit of a wuss, although it adds to the realism. People play to many games were the MC is a horndog always ready to jump. MC here is a "dad" so i understand why he is so hesitant to pursue the girls. The Hesitation towards Rebecca makes no since as she is the oldest and the most normal one for the MC to say "Yeah you know F it lets do it" after all the things shes done on her own as a women and as your partner you would think the MC would make up his mind about her.

The whole "I'm their dad, I shouldn't be letting them seduce me" bit works fine in the beginning. But when you've been balls deep in a girl and agreed to keep having sex, it's time to move on. The ironic part of that being that the MC has had a similar conversation with said girl because she's agreed to a poly relationship but still gets jealous. So in one scene he going "you've made your decision so quit getting pissed off everytime you see me with someone" and in the next he's bitching about how inappropriate it is that he's in a sexual relationship with his daughters.

If that isn't enough reason to avoid the game then be sure you play with a walkthrough. While ~90% of choices do nothing more than change small bits of dialogue, every now and then you'll get choices with drastic impacts on later scenes. Nothing story related of course, you and the MC are barely more than passive observers in one girl's plan to build a family harem. But there are plenty of side girls that you'll never experience if you don't make the right decisions. Probably the worst example of this is in the spoiler below.

This game hasn't changed since the big NTR cut a few versions back. It's a truckload of dialogue and a "slow burn". But the actual good stuff is like a needle in the haystack of this dialogue.

The MC is still the door mat these girls and their mothers seem to kept/keep as a bed warmer and an ATM. He has not developed, he still waffles and whinges at every turn.

The girls are fun and the sex scenes are good. They just got saddled with the biggest piece of beta milquetoast the writer could come up with.

I say stop this game with a sudden Truck-kun applied to Step-MC and have them stay with one their other father figures. Gotta be more interesting then this...

(I am going to attempt to do this review “spoiler free”, for those who have not played through it.)

This game would be incredible, but ends up being very frustrating because ‘Frankly’ (No pun intended) the main character is a pussy! He cannot make choices for himself without his daughter (or other women) making them for him. Then when you think he will go along with things, he does it again, then again, then again. The whole game, everything he is unsure of and it gets annoying and old, really fast. 70% of the dialog is him being unsure of what to do and being in denial of obvious treasures shoved his way, it's ridiculous!

The girls are hot, and the buildup with them is nice (if not too prolonged). While I understand his conflict about the “situation”, he is even like that with characters other than them! Meiko is a perfect example, when you play it, you will see what I mean by it.

I like build up, and I understand they are trying to build up (to make the end result even more satisfying), but he is conflicted about every single situation in the entire game, even when women are throwing themselves at him. While I can understand the women in his “situation”, it’s frustrating how much of a pussy he comes off! He constantly needs others to make his mind up for him, likely the most annoying MC ever conceived!

I like build up and I am glad the game is prolonged a bit (yet it’s too much!), but they went overboard with it here because he turns down situations, only to have them happen anyhow or later. It’s not very realistic, everything most would love to have causes him conflict or makes him want to get out of a situation we all would dream of happening to us. He comes off not complex, but like I said, a real pussy! They made him in a way he would be a conflicted mess about having 20 hot naked women in front of him or winning a million dollars! It is stupid and frustrating, instead of building up the scene. I wish I was exaggerating about how much he takes this game down a few notches!

The art is good, the girls are hot (it took me a little bit to get used to the big eyes, but now they work fine for me). The scenes, when they do finally happen because of the sissy MC, are really good and are animated fairly well. The story is good and they did not rush it, but it is too prolonged just because every situation the MC is “I want it, I do not want it, I want it, I don’t. This is wrong, but I want it! Make my mind up for me!?” In moderation, this would have worked and built up the scenes, but he is like this in literally every single situation (even when it makes no sense).

Still worth playing through and I love the scenes, the build up would be nice if it was not so convoluted! I just cannot stand the MC and the plot device concerning him.

Without the MC, or done in more moderation, it would have been an easy 4.5 to 5 star game. Having more choice of his action (or denial of action) would have made him better.

Until now, I never played a AVN game where the MC ruins the situations almost every time they happen until now!

PROS:

• The women
• The renders
• The scenes
• Animation of said scenes is well done
• The story
• Lots of content
• Seems to be more content coming!

CONS:

• MC is annoying and constantly conflicted, often for no or little reason, I cannot stand him!
• MC cannot make up his own mind, needs young women and others to do it for him.
• MC turns down women who want him, ruining the happiness you get from finally getting a scene after he constantly denies wanting it to happen. Or you think it is going to happen, then he ruins it or ends the situation. In moderation, this works. In every scene, it is annoying and disappointing you do not get more choice.
• MC is a complete pussy and is more like an emotional female mess, but even female emotional messes can make decisions he cannot!
• It still is one of my favorite ones, just sad the MC ruins it quite a bit, and by that I mean a LOT!

My Rating: 4.0

Well it's a good story and believable characters , I find flashbacks and parts about past more appealing , there is no determining choice implemented inside story, You can't even reject Meiko, it's good to have option, but there is not much given to MC , may be he wants date only one girl at a time, sadly that is not possible.
Also parts in dream with fairy versions of characters are a little bit much, it can be a normal dream , nothing wrong with that.

I liked the Single Again , but that doesn't mean it can't be better.

i loved this game. i love the storyline, i love most of the characters. just one thing: i wish i could choose which character i can be with or without. i don't wanna be with one char but you just can't push her away. but overall, best lewd game i have ever played.

The game is fine, the animations are very good and everything, but the protagonist becomes a bit repetitive with the "we shouldn't, it's wrong, etc." It's okay, the story is a bit interesting, it's a bit disappointing that they're all stepdaughters but I can avoid it a bit and pretend that they are, it's not that it's bad like this but I like the idea of taboo, more than What's wrong, sometimes the faces look a little weird but otherwise it's ok, I'd say there's too much dialogue, the dream thing gets pretty long sometimes and it would be more fun if it affected the real world, it would be nice a little bit. a little more content, not totally sexual, but a little more toying, like with the thighs or maybe the butt, something while they sleep would be great

well-done graphics and wonderful story, it's enjoyable for playing slow burn game. But there's room to improve, just like what others said, the male protagonist is literally unconfident. There's no doubt that this game is good, can't wait to completed version!

I was hoping a good romance so I played it for 3 hrs and it got so boring that I stopped. The mc was so shy and passive that he needed to be continuously reminded by his alpha stepdaughter Rebecca to man up in situations. I mean this dude got cheated and caught his ex wife during the act, but he couldn't reveal who the guy is to his step daughters cause he made a promise to his ex wife about it. I mean yeah, this dude is pathetic af. Don't waste time playing it if you don't like beta cucks who's so mentally fragile that it's a wonder how a character like this is a porn game mc. He must be terrified of even the idea of sex cause it's scary ...

Reviewing version v1.18

What begins as a novel concept -- the submissive and almost passive manner in which the main character, Frank, suffers the amorous advances of his three stepdaughters -- eventually becomes dry the longer the VN goes on. He's entirely illogical at times and hypocritical almost always, yet never seems to gather enough confidence to stand up to the machinations of his teenage and twenty-four-year-old paramours.

Still, it's an interesting enough concept to explore, and the renders are always passable. 4*

Yo not gonna lie played this game on version 1.08 wasn't to found of it, but holy shit the amount of content that as being added and especially lillith relationship god dam made it so fucking worth it to replay it.
This game jumped from a mediocre game with an interesting plot to a really good one with an even greater character development and depth, some of the girls feel really unique in their one way, and even tho mc is really fucking dense for a porn game mc it doesn't feel like a burden especially remenbering his relationship with his daughters.
The only possible draw back i could see is people not enjoying the incest part of it, which there is none but it kinda points in that way, either way for me that aint no problem and its more like a feature, don't stop yourself from playing this game because of that believe me this shit is kinda fire.
REALLY GOOD GAME looking forward as fuck for the next updates would recommend in a heartbeat 9/10 LILLY BEST GIRL(fuck u all who dont agree).

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.)