Once a Porn a Time

It's actually so boring that it's unironically fixing my insomnia

Thanks dev very based of you

this isnt a game you should play for the porn
you should play it for the wacky story, and the fun of perverting fairytales
the erotica is pretty basic, and there are spelling/grammatical errors, but i generally enjoy my time with it, and are far from finished :)

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Too Long Didn't Read Version
Recommend
✔Yes, at list price, on sale, or part of a bundle
Game Version
Version 1.1
Install Size
794 MB
Visual Novel Type
Adventure
Protagonist
Male
Acts
Solo Male✔, Solo Female✔, Breast Job✔, Oral✔, Vaginal✔, Anal✔, Foot Job✔, Group✔, Spanking✔
Censorship?
No
Hours of Gameplay
12+ hours
Difficulty
Normal
Graphics
Beautiful
Animation
Stills only - Light Animation
Audio
Music, Sound Effects
Art Style
Cartoon
Bugs
A few here and there
Replayability
Once is Enough

Multiple Monitors
Stays up, with audio, when not in game. Cursor not locked to window.
Steam Achievements
None at this time
Steam Cards
None at this time
Overall Rating
Good - (7/10)
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Synopsis
Once a Porn a Time is a RenPy point and click adventure.
Story
You found an abandoned planet to salvage, at least that sounds so much better than scavenge, but hey, it's a living. You find a fairy in a jar. It must be real, if you were dreaming she'd be naked.
The fairy turns out to be none other than Tinker Bell, or at least a representation of her. She is one of the remnant of an entertainment plant that went bankrupt. Tinker Bell wants your help to recreate the planet and succeed where the previous owner failed.
Gameplay
The main thing is that you need to set your expectations for this game up front. While this game uses the RenPy engine, it is more of a point and click game than a visual novel.
After the legal stuff you are asked to name the main male character, there is no default and you will not have a name if you do not enter one. Basic game play is to visit the women that you currently have available, or at least the ones with tasks to advance, and then play the drone mini game to advance time.
The drone mini game is a major part of the game. You will need to play it to gather resources and obtain quest objects. Your drone has a number of action points. You see a representation of the world, two dots, a circle, two dots, a circle, two dots, a circle, and one dot. The dots have a chance to be able to find something, the circles have a guaranteed find. The circles will fill in once you get to the previous circle, to give you an idea of what you might find there. Searching requires two actions points and there is a random advance for one action point. The random advance will advance your drone from one to three spaces, this can cause you to miss a circle, or not move far enough to get to the next circle. You also need to save one action point for your return trip. If you run out of action points you will lose everything you collected. Later in the game you will be able to increase the number of action point and carry emergency reserve points in case you run out. I played the mini game over 100 times, so that should give you an idea on the length of the game. The automated drones return, with no reward, if they are out when you exit the game. So, bring them in before you save the game.
There are two additional parts of the game that you will have to answer riddles and fill in the blank. The riddles are part of the Sphinx character path. If you don't know the answers they are easy enough to find online, or there is a guide with them. The fill in the blanks are completing a phrase to open boxes you find with your drone. As with the riddles, you can find the answers online or use a guide.
As you progress with the different characters you will create more outfits and hairstyles for them. After you have created some outfits and hairstyles, you will be able to "dress" the characters in the different outfits that they have available.
The game has Snow White, Frozen (Astria and Elsa), and Rapunzel as characters and Tinker Bell as the CEO++ of the planet. Along with a few other characters. The scenes with the main character have the main character represented as a disembodied member. Not my personal favorite representation.
The English is good, with only a few grammar and misspelling errors.
The Gallery
There are three different Galleries, Quest images, Data images, and Character Affinity images. There are 25 Quest images, two are variations of the same image. The Quest images are unlocked as you complete quests in the game. The Data images are unlocked by finding Image Data, or purchasing Image Data, in the Drone mini game. The Data images are for characters that are not a part of the game (Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella). There are seven Data images to unlock, the last one is dependent on your quest progress and is "free". There are eight Affinity images. Affinity images are unlocked by advancing your relationships with your coworkers (Tinker Bell, Astrid, and Milessandre)
Final Verdict
An enjoyable adult point and click adventure game featuring characters from fairy tales. Snow White, Astrid and Elsa from Frozen, and Rapunzel. This is a slow burn and not a quick romp.
System Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D
Motherboard: Gigabyte X670E AORUS EXTREME (rev. 1x)
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB)
Video: ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080
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I bought this game because I am a man of culture born from the seediest parts of the internet and something about the art style reminded me of Akabur, creator of Princess Trainer and Witch Trainer. I didn't bother reading the plot synopsis, so needless to say I was pretty surprised when rather than the plot being "you're some guy in fantasy land banging princesses" it's more a fusion of Westworld and The Stepford Wives (if they fucked good and were LEGALLY DISTINCT princesses from public domain).
Tinkerbell is an ex-combat model Android that used to work with some director that created this world of Princesses to sell as an amusement park. Everyone around him thought it would be a great idea if they just let people fuck the androids, but the director was a man of principle who did not wish to see his creations debauched. Enter the hero. You crash land here and are quickly pressed into service by Tinker Bell to "corrupt" the AI's of the princess androids so she can make a bunch of money pimping them out.
I'm going to recommend this game, but it comes with a couple of caveats. First and foremost, do not be like me and manually farm up scraps and money with the Drone mission. The game cautions you not to use cheats; but there are no achievements or any reason that I can see not to other than to save your precious time. Trust me; you are not missing anything by cheating. You will still have to do the drone missions in order to further the story, but my conservative estimate is you can cut out about 30-40% of my playtime simply by cheating. Please, for the love of God; cheat.
Second, a lot of the titillation is going to be convincing them to flash you. The actual sex scenes are going to be few and far between, with most of it just being the girls getting naked or exposing themselves to you. The animations are SCUFFED. The art is pretty good if you like classic, Western cartoon style - but it's clear that this was their first stab at animations as they mostly consist of two frames. It's kind of jarring and takes away from the otherwise pleasant aesthetic and presentation of the game.
Third, it's pretty tame. Perhaps it's a sign of how far I've fallen from the grace of God, but when a fairy was sucking the characters dick I expected her to be DROWNED in cum, but my mans must have been completely depleted because it was nothing.
The writing is fine. I don't know - seriously 3/4's of the game is screwing around with the time pass mechanic and grinding to get scraps to make new outfits to further the story. It wore down on me after a while. I honestly wish that people who made smut games could understand that while they may feel that some aspect of gameplay is necessary, I do not believe that should be the case if the gameplay is repetitive, tedious and never changes. One of my favorite porn games, Treasures of Nadia / The Genesis Order is also guilty of this, but the way it abuses you is through excessive backtracking to the tune of 40-50 hours worth.
Soft recommend. Buy it on sale if you can. If you were to strip out the absolutely soul-crushing grind, you've probably got like.... 3 to 4 hours of content here. Also, a post-game Gallery would have been helpful.

All'round epic!
Plenty of options early on; from hilarious response options to easy resource acquisition being possible before getting 1st character, OPT_Studio deserves high praises for such a beautiful game that they clearly crafted with the intention of maximizing the possible range of ways to enjoy the game, from the start!
:steamhappy:
<3
P.S._More graphics options would be nice, but I bought it 80%-off, so I'm not complaining!

corruption game, not many r-rated scenes, but when u have them, they are the result of lots and lots of repetitive actions and are thus highly rewarding.

Cool story, a corruption game epic story... with some glaring flaws. 7.5 gallons of Ecchi Fun rating (buy if you enjoy princess corruption but if you dont like the visuals then pass on this one, i'm sure better games will be made in the future)
the artstyle is not for everybody, the quest breakdowns are nonexistent, so it's just a question mark (?) in the quest book until you find the right combination or people to visit to unlock this main quest and that side quest... ect.
Surely a game that some people will adore, but others will dislike for its grinding and those who adore it will love the humor of it, as well as who doesn't want to bang a Princess?
who doesn't want a Harem? i mean it's not like you played Bare Witness and realized a Harem is just way too much work for 1 man.
the best parts of the game is you got a drone to do some grind for you, but i'm an expert at grind if i am motivated, and boobies motivate me. So, yeah... i had like 30k too much stuff by the end of the game (20K of it was Character Data... i sure hope i can import a save to the next game, maybe that will motivate me to get a Perfect Score in this game)
don't be a hoarder with your currency, since prices go up in the game, twice.... that's a pro-tip and it's just a couple of items.
like i said, the QuestBook needs a complete overhaul, i would have loved to see what dialog options are unlocked upon completing a certain quest, because i ended up Missing a unlocking for 1SideQuest and 2 others SideQuests from (codename) R (keeping her name hidden to avoid spoilers) seemed to only be partially completed, no idea how that happens.
7.5 overall score, because i would enjoy this tons more, if more work was put into the drawings and we really needed a few more H scenes...(at least) because i went back 2 or 3 times, maybe 4 replaying segments of the game, Why? because they decided they wouldn't learn from (the AVN) No More Money and add a built-in WalkThrough... that i could buy for 2 to 4 bucks. poor sport, all of this leads me to rate it lower than 8... so in the 7 region, enjoy!