5,539,343 lives lived for a total of 992,945 hours
426,241 people lived past age fifty-five
288 generations in longest family line 395 monuments completed, 2281 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...
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.
Have been dying without the waiting to be born page closing
Recommended HopeOnARope (237.1 hours on record)
Posted 38 hours ago
I think the token (life) amount needs to increase. Here I am waiting 10 minutes for a life. It just occurred to me that I play this game because I need more irl friends..since I'm literally waiting to 'get a life'.
Too few lives equals sadness-especially on 'Friday Eve Runs'. Now, I just have to watch YouTube. I could be mining for gold if I had more lives...
Recommended SteveyPiggy (726.4 hours on record)
Posted 3 days ago
Cool game about survival and parenting! :D
Recommended denriguez (282.1 hours on record)
Posted 4 days ago
Still such an amazing game. Thanks.
Recommended www (78.7 hours on record)
Posted 4 days ago
Recommended Pangaea (449.6 hours on record)
Posted 5 days ago
Mom stabbed me, just checking play time. Life is precious.
Recommended wesley (420.2 hours on record)
Posted 5 days ago
What was once one of my favorite games of the year has turned into somthing that I can't even play without getting really angry.. people stealing stuff the ungodly amount of TROLLS that just ruin everything they touch.. You'll never see any huge cities or cool stuff becuase people can't go two generations without leaving even the best towns in ruin.. this game brings me no joy anymore.
Recommended what (41.5 hours on record)
Posted 6 days ago
what the mode
Recommended Howls (418.5 hours on record)
Posted 7 days ago
Good game, but the frequent reworkings and updates make it unpredictable. I enjoy the premise and the experiences I've had in it throughout my time, but it's definitely not for someone who likes stable, consistent gameplay.
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 (1,600.8 hours on record)
Posted 13 months ago
It's a good game but honestly I just wanted to see how many hours I have
Recommended just checking (1,423.3 hours on record)
Posted 5 months ago
game is good i guess
Recommended AAA Pizza (1,330.3 hours on record)
Posted 5 months ago
You happy now Malleria
Recommended shampein (1,327.2 hours on record)
Posted 12 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 demonicblack (1,256.2 hours on record)
Posted 8 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 Luna (1,226.4 hours on record)
Posted 9 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 (1,137.7 hours on record)
Posted 11 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 Remove the update (48.2 hours on record)
Posted 21 hours ago
Why did you add the update were you have lives! I HATE IT REMOVE IT!
Not Recommended The Life System (20.3 hours on record)
Posted 5 days ago
Ok, so I got this game and loved it but the new life system sucks. I get the point of it but when the Tutorial counts as a life I draw the line.
Persona l I never like this update because it gives griefers a HUGE advantage because they can basically kill you for an hour and in the start of a life you are completely helpless. You can't even curse a griefer because you are to young and can't t...
Not Recommended LAG LAG LAG (553.0 hours on record)
Posted 11 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 (491.2 hours on record)
Posted 33 days 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...
An update like this is long overdue. Thanks to all of you for reporting everything you reported. As a result, a pretty long list of issues had built up. This week, I got through all of the known and reproducible issues affecting the game engine and code. A few bigger fixes are worth mentioning specifically. If you've ever seen a "ghost" player standing there, aging, who no one else can see, the source of that problem has finally been found and fixed (it was caused by someone passing through your area, going at least 64 tiles in one go without ever stopping their walk). The issue with animals and other movable items not respawning when nature reclaims an area has been fixed. And most importantly, a server message overload that was triggered when you targeted a family member with a sword has been fixed. That overload was so extreme that it caused nearby clients to get bogged down and disconnect. A full list of the changes can be seen here: [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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