2,534,696 lives lived for a total of 387,219 hours
151,547 people lived past age fifty-five
288 generations in longest family line 113 monuments completed, 763 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....
51 natural objects (latest: Bison)
12 playable characters
1017 human-makeable objects (latest: Bloody Note)
84,168 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.
So what can I say about this game? After having owned it for more than a month now and having watched YouTube vids of One Hour One Life before buying it I can safely say I have a fair degree of knowledge about the game.
Aspects of the game:
- Child rearing of other players
- A lineage system that you can track on the game's website.
this game is super fun, worth what i paid for. great job on the game.
Recommended benny (83.7 hours on record)
Posted 26 hours ago
Recommended eLpu (16.9 hours on record)
Posted 31 hours ago
Recommended Finoonal (60.8 hours on record)
Posted 36 hours ago
Great game.
Recommended RyderH (41 minutes on record)
Posted 37 hours ago
Quite boring tutorial.
Recommended Daft (8.6 hours on record)
Posted 39 hours ago
Incredibly powerful and thought provoking. The process of growing up around other players for an hour and getting to know people is truly magical and something only this game alone has managed to absolutely nail. Interactions can be positive, they can be negative, but all of them will leave you truly stunned and inspired.
Thi s game is a true test of humanity, and a fun one at that.
Recommended Sharlank (79.3 hours on record)
Posted 42 hours ago
Unique gameplay experience, would definitely recommend. Friendly community (especially on discord) will help climbing the learning curve. Jason please add more storage options though :D
It's a good game but honestly I just wanted to see how many hours I have
Recommended Tarr (789.2 hours on record)
Posted 9 days ago
Jason pretty much delivers on each and every patch. Things can and will be out of balance here and there but he generally fixes most things with time. Right now is a pretty good time to play now that the arrow-note bug has been fixed.
Recommended telafiesta (727.5 hours on record)
Posted 2 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.
Recommended shampein (702.4 hours on record)
Posted 3 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 AAA (693.1 hours on record)
Posted 4 months ago
Just checking my hours.
Recommended Xan (683.6 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago
The big farm update is the best update so far. I love sharing stew with my family. It gives me time to spend more time with my children and makes the game not feel like such a rush. It seems the game culture has improved because of it.
Recommended Sad game (639.7 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago
This game describes the love of mother and family
Nobody can live forever and their life is limited.
The only thing player can leave is their bone and what they've made.
But what in earth do they've manufactured or harvested good for themselves after death?
It barely effects players next game so It means nothing as well.
Not Recommended LAG LAG LAG (553.0 hours on record)
Posted 47 days 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 Connection lost.... (322.3 hours on record)
Posted 4 months ago
Connection lost...cant even play after so called fix ,If i stand still not touching my mouse for more than two seconds as an adult female Insta DC!... Only to get going and wiped out by one griefer... like the community isnt small enough ......One less good player
User Story: Ea family migration, by Tarr September 4, 2018
I was born in a rather large scale family migration to the Ea family. I think at the point I was born there was almost seven people traveling in a pack to a nearby city. Our group ended up getting separated at one point, our group changed from a strong six or seven to a meager three. Mother held my younger brother Jason close as we kept chugging on through the harsh environments. Swamps loaded with pigs, freezing arctics, badlands brimming with hostile animals. Everything you could imagine challenged our families migration. [Read More...]
The thinking behind One Hour One Life
How to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning
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
