5,547,887 lives lived for a total of 995,925 hours
429,032 people lived past age fifty-five
288 generations in longest family line 427 monuments completed, 2428 in progress
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 grandfather'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 grandparents and parents 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....
72 natural objects (latest: Natural Spring)
22 playable characters
2053 human-makeable objects (latest: Pump Valve)
107,106 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
MacOS build (10.5 and later Intel)
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.
OHOL is a great game, I love seeing how things work. It's always fun to make things, especially if your a pie baker. Sometimes there is drama and awesome incidents that happen. I'm not good at describing why a game is good so im sorry.
Recommended Josh (26.0 hours on record)
Posted 9 days ago
I personally believe the life system is very effective for average and good players. Every hour you get a life, so if your playing a normal game, you shouldn't run out of lives. Newer players may struggle with the learning curve as they most likely will not live a full game their first few games, so I believe that new players should be immune to the lives system for a certain amount of time, to ge...
Oth ers are just the best and the team comes together to make a town succeed.
Thos e lives spent foraging near starvation and bring home 200 rabbits to clothe the children. You come back and everybody clothed, rabbits are now pies and the compost smells from a mile away.
Some lives are blessed.
Recommended Pangaea (554.4 hours on record)
Posted 12 days ago
Mom stabbed me, just checking play time. Life is precious.
Recommended Gabrielle (191.3 hours on record)
Posted 17 days ago
Great game. 100% worth the money. Best civilization building game out there, for the PC at least. Also I love the new point system, I'm not sure how it works, other then you get more points when you live for longer. If your looking to buy it, please do! It will be money well spent.
Recommended mellow (162.6 hours on record)
Posted 18 days ago
more red head and light brown skin chances please!!
Recommended my name is jeff (137.4 hours on record)
Posted 19 days ago
so much to do so little time
Recommended AlexanderB (292.5 hours on record)
Posted 19 days ago
I DON'T THINK THE GENE UPDATE HAS HAD ANY IMPACT. THERE IS STILL JUST AS MUCH SUICIDE AND MURDER. I THINK THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO MOTIVATE THROUGH REWARD RATHER THAN MAKING CONSEQUENCES. LIFE IS MOTIVATED BY CONSEQUENCE. YOU NEED TO MAKE LIVING HARDER FOR THOSE THAT MAKE LIVING HARDER FOR US.
While ohol is not a perfect game it is an ever evolving game. Jason is taking steps in the correct direction to try to fix some of the underlying problems with the game and that's great.
Recommended mirelli (1,650.0 hour on record)
Posted 14 months ago
It's a good game but honestly I just wanted to see how many hours I have
Recommended just checking (1,445.2 hour on record)
Posted 7 months ago
game is good i guess
Recommended AAA Pizza (1,356.7 hour on record)
Posted 6 months ago
You happy now Malleria
Recommended demonicblack (1,353.2 hour on record)
Posted 9 months ago
piglets!!! cows!!! and dogs!!! omg im in love 420 mushroom cult 4 life!! tbh i would like some more content updates but my review still stands great game
Recommended shampein (1,350.1 hour on record)
Posted 13 months ago
its a fun, simple game, with a complex strategy lot of drama, lot of bad players, lot of griefers and murderers, so will annoy you a few times but can be so fun, very original concept and jason works on it frequently, each update changes everything but its in a good direction
Recommended Luna (1,344.3 hour on record)
Posted 10 months ago
Great game to play, every life is unique! Sometimes you play with annoying children who wants to stab everyone.. but most of the times you will play with nice people who want to play the game and can learn new people things.
Recommended telafiesta (1,259.2 hour on record)
Posted 13 months ago
The game is finally adding more game-play content, I approve of more domestic animals, and the surgery addition is also welcome. I still feel like the game needs more structures and a better way to locate nearby towns (bell towers are a joke) maybe establish trade and migration like the good old days where you had neighboring villages, and carpenters who built roads connecting them.
Not Recommended LAG LAG LAG (553.0 hours on record)
Posted 12 months ago
Since we get more players in this game, the game become lag as hell. Optimization didnt not work, I found this game great but I cant play laggy as hell or can take to be disconnected because servers can handle so much ppl. I dont think it will improve, if you are thinking about buying this game, get a time machine and buy it three months ago, when it worked great. Its a shame such good game has th...
Not Recommended The_Anabaptist (531.9 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
I cannot recommend this game to parents with impressionable children, which is basically all of them.
When I bought this game, it was promoted as a group activity for progressing thru stages of civilization while trying to stave off or outrun concurrent waves of resource shortfalls. I enjoyed this aspect of the game.
However , the developer has released a number of updates that incre...
I'm back from a very interesting and refreshing trip to Taiwan. Taking time off---and not working on the game at all for a week---is a really important thing to do from time to time.
The variety among the red-headed a black characters has been a little thin for a while. This update adds two more male characters for each, taking the total up to 22 playable characters, currently in four different skin tones (12 males and 10 females) The red-heads and black characters are still missing one female each (to bring them up to six each), but those will be added in the near future. [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...]
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