Once in a Lifetime

One of the best games I've ever played, and this surprised me as I wasn't expecting this from a porn game. I even dropped some other games I was playing to finish this. Good jokes, references, characters and a 100/10 story. I'm replaying the game to finish each path just because it was so good. To anyone who doubts if the game is worth it I'll say this: amazing and captivating story, very good sex scenes(could be better, but considering this is a VN they are 10/10), and multiple endings. What else could you want?

Not to be cocky, but I have mastered Breaking Bad, yo.

On a serious note, thank you, Caribdis, I love your work! I'll be sure to play Eternum after finishing this one.

I'd just finished the game and, wow, I just can't don't leave a comment here, Caribdis are 100% sure an awesome story telling guy, the history is fcking awesome, the jokes and references, the multiples options and consequences, and [spoiler alert] stabby mike?? Damn I was REALLY mad bcs of his death, he was by far my favorite character and then he came back with a fcking plot twist LOL. 10/10 Masterpiece! Can't wait for Eternum updates too, love both! Grettings from Brazil! <3

New fear unlocked , getting spoiled in a series I 'm watching by a porn game

What's the password for the psychiatric hospital

玩完永恒之后才来玩的，没想到一点也不觉得质量差，相反看得出来用心在做这个游戏，作者是中国人吗？游戏中的一些中国元素恰到好处，一些中文脏话太搞笑了。

Wondering if it be possible that Once in a lifetime will be remaked with better renderings and quality?  Sincerely like your games!

You truly got a great aptitude! Love from China.

I actually play this a long time ago but couldn't keep up with my time management to play so this has been in my phone for while but I do play regularly but not a daily basis and now I reach the end of the story and I might say this is the greatest and wholesome indie game I ever played.I surprised to see that Eternum is also your work.No wonder why I kept seeing the same MC for OnceInALifetime on Eternum. Anyway thanks for making this game.

Spoiler :

Btw when I just now realize that when Stabby Mike when about to "die" on sewage, He says "that kind of love come once in a lifetime"

Perfect choice of word

Great story.

Great plot twist.

Great sense of Humor.

Plethora of choice consequence.

Amazing choice of character personality.

A bit awkward art render but I do not blame you for that.

I glad I choose the right action everytime to make sure to have the best ending possible.

I do recommend this other users that want to experience vanilla plot but I do tell you the wholesomeness is depending on your choice.

Sir Caribdis,you have done it.

I won't delete this even though I've finished it.

This game have a special place in my phone and my heart.

I'm glad I found OnceInALifetime

Thanks, Sir Caribdis

Regards : 

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just finished it and love the game and I'm waiting for eternum 0.7 i fking love the game

This game is masterpiece just like Eternum, i actually played this game few months before Eternum but came back to it because i forgot what story of it was about, it was awesome, altough it was perfect i hated one thing about it, to be more precise one person, Oliver this son of a b**** it was even more painful playing to get secret ending, i won't say why to don't spoiler the game though, i hated him so much, definitely more than i hated axel from Eternum, so aside from that perfect game, i would definitely reccomend it to everyone

You know what, I usually don't write comments but damn this game was so absolutely hilarious that I just had to say I really appreciate the humor. The characters have great personalities and this is probably the first VN I've actively read all the lines in due to genuine interest! Thanks for this absolute gem of a game <3

Great game! I started playing after Eternum and thought that after setting the bar so high this game wouldn’t hook me... but I was wrong.

I have one question for Caribdis (SPOILERS):

In good endings when the MC is standing near the Grimoire, does he hesitate to open the book at that moment? Before someone takes his hand?

Thank you for creating such good games!

Caribdis!! You are amazing, Man. I really like Once in a Lifetime. I guess the only constructive criticism that I can say is that it lacks Women Sound Effects. Especially when you know they are doing it. It would have been more provocative and more hot.

HOWEVER.... that is a very miniscule thing though. Overall, I am very very happy with this game.

Here's my small request, this comment will probably get buried and you might not see it. But if you do. PLEASE... Make a SEQUEL! Why? You might ask. Besides the experience the story is on fire! It's the mixed of mystery and comedy for me. You should be a script writer! You might think that I am BS'ing you from all of these compliments but I really meant it. You can take it my compliment or you can just ignore it. 

Please, please, please! Make a sequel, I'd love to see those 3 girls and the main character in action again. This can be a trilogy of like sexy detective story. I know you are busy with the other game but a sequel will be amazing.

EDIT:

(SPOILER ALERT) The ending! The player should have control to have *** with all the girls and have group *e* with them... We have seen Aiko and Lauren, Judie and Iris, and Lauren and Jasmine. But what about Carla and Rebecca? Or Carla with Judie and Lauren? I wish that there are more freedom at the end. 

This is a masterpiece of a game! There is a choice to only fuck one girl in the entire game, which is great. Harem is optional and avoidable. I absolutely love Lauren, so I went for her without any two-timing.

 Definitely gonna try other routes someday. Story was so good that I played this on breaks at work.

Only thing missing is a gallery/H-event playback system. Good thing I saved at those scenes. 

Mr. Caribdis, you have created a masterpiece! This is the best AVN there is. I love the story, it has everything. A bit too much comedy for me, but you implemented it very well. Different routes/endings are well constructed; playing the secret ending route was depressing(an effect that lasted for a couple of days even after finishing the game), but that's how it's supposed to be. The epilogue for the harem ending was extremely well done. 

I love all the characters, those girls are great! However, I also appreciate the fact that a lot of men are present in the game. Some of the other AVNs have literally no male besides the protagonist and I just can't help but think "Come on mate, I can handle a man being on screen. Surely the story would make more sense and be overall better if you included some. You never stated that men were extinct and the main character was the last guy on Earth". Anyway, good job with that.

As for visuals, overall the game is very satisfactory. The only thing I can fault you for is all the texture clipping, but hey - you are one guy, doing the entire game by yourself as a side-job, plus this is your first project, it's completely understandable. Honestly, with how enjoyable Once in a lifetime is, I really don't mind it. There is a great variety of outfits(that fit the circumstances they are worn in), the girls change hairstyles - these are factors that give you points in my book. Animations are great. Angles are well chosen. While I don't usually care for different points of view during sex scenes, as with many other things, you did well in this department.

The level of English is good(especially compared to a lot of other AVNs), however there was still some amount of errors. I'm sure I'll be playing the game in the future again, I could write them down and send you corrections.

Eternum. I will be completely honest with you: I am really not a fan of the "VR game within a game" concept, especially if we are talking about an adult visual novel. It is very unappealing for me. However, I owe it to you and your first game to at least try it. Which I will definitely do, albeit only when the game is finished. Because it is your game, I want full experience of a completed product, so I shall wait until it's done before I play it. By the way, is your name a reference to a certain... individual... from Greek mythology?

This is one of my favourite game games of all time and I don't mean just within the AVNS. 

Thank you for creating Once in a lifetime!

感谢您的游戏，上一次玩到这么棒的游戏还是virtues，但是一生一次带给了我不同的震撼和新的体验，是我为数不多通宵体验完的游戏之一！谢谢您，由于年龄原因，我暂时办不了自己的信用卡，等我有了信用卡之后，您肯定是我支持的第一批创作者，您的新作品Eternum我也会一直期待和关注着的！

I love so much this game. What's the name of the song used in the "best ending" when we have all the girls with us?

dude, I must say... You are awesome.... First of all I really liked the intro speech and it just kept getting better. Although art is a weak point but the game was just so good that it never let me notice it. The whole journey was filled with emotions.... The joy, fun, love all was great... I don't have a international credit card now, but as soon as I get one, I promise you are gonna be the first person whom I support on patreon. You won my heart dude.... Keep up the good work 

After playing for almost half an hour, I really thank you, and I didn't know that the password was wrong and found that there was a Chinese version. I don't know how to express how I feel right now.

Ok... So I'm probably almost at the end, but I have to write this now...

When "Anything Goes" started playing, I started jumping in my seat and jamming to it like crazy. It caught me totally out of nowhere.

Caribdis, thank you for making this. Can't wait to check out Eternum later.

Ok I just finished this game and I HAVE to write a comment! This game is so amazing, words can't even describe it. It was funny, it was scary, it was sexy, it was sad, it had an insanely cool plot and amazing characters! I had so much fun playing this and 1000% recommend to anyone and everyone! I only wish there was more for me to play!! Love it so much, you did an amazing job and I will be downloading Eternum soon! Tysm for making this :)

Good game tho i cant figure out the code at the resident evil part i found 42038 but i cant find the corret combination

Damn i love this game i played eternum before and both are crazy good and The Dildo boy made my day i had a blast its funny ashell love the story and for sure the dildo boy 

i really want to play this but every time i try to launch it i get this message:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

Before loading the script.

error: Error -5 while decompressing data: incomplete or truncated stream

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "E:\other\Onceinalifetime-1.0-pc\Onceinalifetime-1.0-pc\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 314, in bootstrap

    renpy.main.main()

  File "E:\other\Onceinalifetime-1.0-pc\Onceinalifetime-1.0-pc\renpy\main.py", line 308, in main

    renpy.loader.index_archives()

  File "E:\other\Onceinalifetime-1.0-pc\Onceinalifetime-1.0-pc\renpy\loader.py", line 136, in index_archives

    index = loads(f.read().decode("zlib"))

  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/encodings/zlib_codec.py", line 43, in zlib_decode

error: Error -5 while decompressing data: incomplete or truncated stream

Windows-8-6.2.9200

Ren'Py 7.3.2.320

Any advice on what to do?

Hello, loved your eternum game, wanted to try this game of yours as well, but whenever I download this game after the downloading is completed till 80-90% the downloading gets cancelled and this msg appears, i tried downloading multiple times but this keeps on happening even when I used different browsers

I was downloading the android file, would appreciate it if anyone could help

This game got me invested, i love the characters, ofc Fit Jack, Mike and Aiko are the best imo, genuinely good story and loved the experience 5⭐

Caribdis...you really hit a homerun with this AVN. Best story, perfectly spaced scenes, choices that actually matter. I'm in awe finishing this and seeing how amazing it was. It's a true shame that it's finally over, and though eternum is superb as well, I prefer this one above all others out there. Maybe a future OIALT direct sequel? A man can dream. Also, Jasmine best girl.

i was gonna ask this in the discord but im not a patreon member but i need to know who to get the scene after the first 3some can somone help me pls?

From rus

I just tried it a second time, and it caused me such emotions that I did not have this from any other game, I felt joy, sadness and feelings I did not understand from the second passage

I think this is one of the best if not the best game I've played in general

Thank you for this game, as soon as possible, I will immediately support you on patreon

and what do you think, should we start eternum now or wait for the release of 1.0?

Thanks again, it was great.