4,516,759 lives lived for a total of 776,410 hours
314,426 people lived past age fifty-five
288 generations in longest family line 228 monuments completed, 1402 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....
67 natural objects (latest: Sand Deposit)
18 playable characters
1749 human-makeable objects (latest: Low Frequency AM Receiver)
90,613 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.
Was born into a village of two women and five men. Was named named Eddi by Grandma right before she passed. Things were pretty great. Cousin Eddy Plant taught me to be a wheat farmer. When he died, I buried him. Aunt Luna gave me a psychadellic mushroom, which was hilarious. It made everything on the screen glitch. She died laughing at my reaction. We buried her and mom side by side. Then, we real...
I love this game, but the lag is making it borderline unplayable.
Recommended willz (17.6 hours on record)
Posted 2 days ago
Recommended popo (188.6 hours on record)
Posted 2 days ago
popopopo
Recommended EXOSPEED (9.1 hours on record)
Posted 3 days ago
THAT WAS A GREAT GAME I LIVED ALL THE WAY TO 60
Recommended eve (14.2 hours on record)
Posted 3 days ago
Recommended LapralineGOX (282.6 hours on record)
Posted 4 days ago
this game is getting better and better, and the weekly updates make it fully enjoyable.
Recommended fumelava (54.0 hours on record)
Posted 6 days ago
Very good game I would recommend to any people who like survival. Living in a civilization that your helping to build is good.
Recommended Dee (32.4 hours on record)
Posted 7 days ago
Super fun game loving it so far! Just wish we could find other settlements more easily. I know if a town has a bell you can follow it but may a map could help?
It's a good game but honestly I just wanted to see how many hours I have
Recommended shampein (1,110.3 hours on record)
Posted 8 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 Pizza (1,090.8 hours on record)
Posted 12 days ago
You happy now Malleria
Recommended demonicblack (1,004.5 hours on record)
Posted 3 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 Xan (998.6 hours on record)
Posted 7 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 (973.1 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago
Recommended Mercury Lee (964.8 hours on record)
Posted 7 months ago
Lived so many times and died uncountable deaths. I left a trace too.
First I bought on Steam and realized there is no Mac version. Spent another $20 to get on Mac. Then I had hell getting the game to run. I had to go to the shell and run manually. Then the wall blocks you from moving to the fire and kindling so I'm stuck. $40 to play the tutorial for a few minutes. How can I ever get past the tutorial and play the game? I restarted 3 times and I have reinsta...
Not Recommended Honest review (592.3 hours on record)
Posted 19 days ago
Poo poo game
Not Recommended LAG LAG LAG (553.0 hours on record)
Posted 6 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...
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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