Once in a Lifetime
2021
- indie
- visual novel
- thriller
- comedy
- erotic
- mystery
- romance
- single player
The story
Once in a Lifetime is a choice-based visual novel made in Ren'Py with tons of romance, mystery, humor, and much more!
What it’s like
Static illustrated scenes sit beneath text boxes, with character portraits swapping in and out as conversations turn, and the pace is set by the reader's clicks and the branching choices that open up romantic, mysterious and comedic routes. The mood is playful and flirtatious, with a light thriller undercurrent that keeps the mystery ticking over between the jokes and the courting. It suits a late evening on your own, a casual session on a laptop, or a stretch of time when you want something you can pause and return to without losing the thread. Its people's arcs are built around attraction, trust and secrets gradually coming to light, with the humour usually undercutting any heaviness. Intensity is high in one specific way: it contains nudity, sexual content and a harem setup, and the erotic material is central rather than incidental. Violence and gore are not part of its identity, and the fear is mostly suspense rather than shock. It is for players who want romance and sexual content threaded through a mystery and comedy, and who are comfortable with adult visual novel conventions.
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