12,487,838 lives lived for a total of 3,500,645 hours
2,227,669 people lived past age fifty-five
957 generations in longest family line 1611 monuments completed, 5499 in progress
Current player arc has been going 89606 years Previous arc lasted 144137 years
a multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building by Jason Rohrer
This game is about playing one small part in a much larger story. You only live an hour, but time and space in this game is infinite. You can only do so much in one lifetime, but the tech tree in this game will take hundreds of generations to fully explore. This game is also about family trees. Having a mother who takes care of you as a baby, and hopefully taking care of a baby yourself later in life. And your mother is another player. And your baby is another player. Building something to use in your lifetime, but inevitably realizing that, in the end, what you build is not for YOU, but for your children and all the countless others that will come after you. Proudly using your grandmother's ax, and then passing it on to your own grandchild as the end of your life nears. And looking at each life as a unique story. I was this kid born in this situation, but I eventually grew up. I built a bakery near the wheat fields. Over time, I watched my grandmother and mother grow old and die. I had some kids of my own along the way, but they are grown now... and look at my character now! She's an old woman. What a life passed by in this little hour of mine. After I die, this life will be over and gone forever. I can be born again, but I can never live this unique story again. Everything's changing. I'll be born as a different person in a different place and different time, with another unique story to experience in the next hour...
....Progress Report....
80 natural objects (latest: Tarry Spot)
22 playable characters
3312 human-makeable objects (latest: Orbital Alignment Coordinates)
145,126 lines of code
What you get
Immediately after your payment is processed, you will receive an email with an access link. You will then be able to download all of the following DRM-free distributions:
Windows build
GNU/Linux build (compiled on 32-bit Ubuntu 14.04)
Full source code bundle (compile it yourself)
The price also includes downloads of all future updates and a lifetime account on the main game server that I am running.
The source bundle includes the editor and server software, allowing you to set up and run your own server or even leverage the engine to make your own game. See OneLife/documentation in the source bundle for instructions.
Recommended Baddie with the fatt (414.1 hours on record)
Posted 12 days ago
THIS GAME IS FUCKING ASS BRO
Recommended yzhyy (11.9 hours on record)
Posted 15 days ago
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Recommended CMTG (199.8 hours on record)
Posted 34 days ago
holy crap best game ever
Recommended Lokarius (459.3 hours on record)
Posted 44 days ago
It's a fun game, but definitely get the Yumlife Mod from Github so that you can see more than 2 squares in front of your nose.
Best played with a group. The mod can help with that as well. Player base is small, but dedicated, generally welcoming and helpful. More so if you have the mod, because it allows players to be identified and therefore trusted.
Recommended lucy (314.5 hours on record)
Posted 51 days ago
I wrote a review years ago. I don't recall what it said, and have no recollection how to locate it. I spent a lot of time playing OHOL and most lifetimes were enjoyable. There are some great people here and this game captures some truly heartfelt moments somehow. Victoria Falls remains my favorite civilization, despite the eventual slaughter.
Recommended Rora (149.7 hours on record)
Posted 57 days ago
Great families. One leader taught me how to shoot wolves. I killed five for family and they patched me up when I was attacked. 10 out of 10 would hunt wolves for them again
Recommended LexX (55.7 hours on record)
Posted 60 days ago
Recommended BlahW (3,772.1 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
This game is addictive if you like learning complex crafting systems, survival co-op games, and light roleplay. Without mods it's very challenging, so recommend getting QOL mods so you aren't pointing and clicking all day spraining your wrist.
Recommended Rookwood (682.4 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
A game like no other. You are born. Grow up. Raise a family. Work. And die. All in one hour.
Recommended tifaclocxii02 (4,450.2 hours on record)
Posted 12 months ago
i just wanna see how many hour i have
Recommended Luniatji (4,318.8 hours on record)
Posted 4.1 years ago
Great game, would recommend it. Every game is different but the same at the same time, its great.
Recommended demonicblack (4,085.7 hours on record)
Posted 5.3 years ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended BubblyBee (3,955.1 hours on record)
Posted 21 months ago
This is the one game I always come back to. It's ruined my life :)
Recommended BlahW (3,772.1 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
This game is addictive if you like learning complex crafting systems, survival co-op games, and light roleplay. Without mods it's very challenging, so recommend getting QOL mods so you aren't pointing and clicking all day spraining your wrist.
Recommended Bloom (3,702.7 hours on record)
Posted 14 months ago
No life is ever quite the same. Some things are complicated (playing on Mac, well progression, specialty biomes) but once you get over the learning curve its a lot of fun!
Recommended shakir polachek (3,363.9 hours on record)
Posted 2.7 years ago
no se que pasa pero quiero jugar y constantemente aparecen cosas por favor fijate si podes eliminar a la persona que lo esta haciendo
Recommended Tea (2,893.0 hours on record)
Posted 3.9 years ago
Been playing since pretty much the beginning and I kinda wanna know how much time I have spend on this game.
Launch pads must now be built in populated areas, with coordinates discovered from the remote orbital alignment location. This brings rocket-building home, returning it to to community endeavor that it was in the beginning, while still limiting rocket launches to once every five hours.
There have also been many fixes and improvements to the Editor, based on feedback from the Another Planet content team. [Read More...]
User Story: The Tale of Scott Silverthorn, by MaggieMurdoch October 30, 2018
this is a tale of one of my last lives, sometimes I live very mundane and uneventful lives but other times I find one that stays with me and makes me think about it...This was one of those lives.
I was born a baby boy to a woman named Samantha Silverthorn in a tiny settlement, as I was born my older brother Lason was visiting, my mother had six children before me and had one after me, surviving to adulthood there was only me, my big brother Lason, my big sister Freyja and and my younger sister Liza. When I was born my mother gave me a single snake skin boot. [Read More...]
The thinking behind One Hour One Life
How to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning
Bonsai: the Endless Ritual | Extraordinary Rituals | BBC Earth Explore
Power of the Market - The Pencil
Primitive Technology: Forge Blower
Last Day Dream
The Game Design Challenge 2011: Bigger Than Jesus Panel at GDC 2011
