3,957,174 lives lived for a total of 661,638 hours
265,432 people lived past age fifty-five
288 generations in longest family line 196 monuments completed, 1238 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.
Please put an age limit on waking bears from caves please.
Recommended Troporos (34.6 hours on record)
Posted 16 hours ago
I love the game i think that everyone should buy it in this world, where everyone hate everyone, so you have one place, where everyone need to cooperate.
Recommended OuterSpacePirate (5.8 hours on record)
Posted 35 hours ago
very good
Recommended HUNTER890 (16.1 hours on record)
Posted 4 days ago
I LIKE THE GAME I HOPE FOR MORE PROGRESS
Recommended TheFlyingBun (22.9 hours on record)
Posted 4 days ago
THIS GAME IS GREAT. I spawned as a baby of a lonely mother and she tried real hard to keep me alive. She had more children then died. I was the eldest so i leaded them. We built a whole town and i had a few kids, one died at birth. Before i knew it i had great grandsons, and was about to die. I made the second eldest person there the leader, and died of old age at the fire place, it was a good run...
The baby prison patch has been one of the funnier patches we've seen in game for a while. For anyone who doesn't know we're currently able to entrap babies in a certain stone pen which prevents them from suiciding via unable to escape + force feeding.
I've always loved the strange quirks in game and every one and a while one of them really sticks out.
Recommended mirelli (1,180.3 hours on record)
Posted 7 months ago
It's a good game but honestly I just wanted to see how many hours I have
Recommended shampein (1,038.4 hours on record)
Posted 6 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 (1,010.4 hours on record)
Posted 7 months ago
Just checking my hours.
Recommended Xan (998.6 hours on record)
Posted 6 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 ok (972.2 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
Recommended Mercury Lee (896.3 hours on record)
Posted 5 months ago
Lived so many times and died uncountable deaths. I left a trace too.
Recommended demonicblack (891.4 hours on record)
Posted 57 days 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
grandmother took me in her arm and i still died from hunger Q
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Not Recommended galen (163.4 hours on record)
Posted 9 days ago
it so infuriating that around the recipe tag and on it is not in game so when you click it accidentally or not it will exit the game to desk top. and also the game freezes for like 5 sec when opened back up.
Not Recommended LAG LAG LAG (553.0 hours on record)
Posted 5 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...
Thanks Jason, thanks for the mosquitoes. With no way to combat these they make the game annoying at best and aggravating to no end end, at worst. I can no longer recommend this game. All the new players have been betrayed, is this so he can keep the numbers on the servers low?
Sheesh, an internal combustion engine has a lot of moving parts. I should know, because I just drew them all. There was so much detail that I had to lay out the whole thing in CAD software first, as printed a tracing guide. It's all still hand-drawn. Call it Computer Aided Human Drawing.
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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