7,772,520 lives lived for a total of 1,677,103 hours
845,485 people lived past age fifty-five
813 generations in longest family line 784 monuments completed, 3275 in progress
Current player arc has been going 48282 years Previous arc lasted 14426 years
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 grandmother'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 grandmother and mother 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....
75 natural objects (latest: Arctic Expert Way Stone)
22 playable characters
2774 human-makeable objects (latest: Fed Domestic Pig on Rope)
122,183 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
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.
while seeming like a simple game at first, you soon find that without a story line, and a open world to play with, so much can be made, from a baker to king, not even intended for the game, the player base is just as part of the unfolding story as Jason.
Recommended Pangaeaaaa (839.4 hours on record)
Posted 28 days ago
tis a game, thats for sure. it will get better
Recommended elmiste (711.0 hours on record)
Posted 38 days ago
cheking!
Recommended OHOL Player (433.3 hours on record)
Posted 41 days ago
I like the community and idea of the game but hoping for more updates and less limitations for iron and food. The recent update made it hard to progress civilization, because most of the advanced players are busy making food and keeping their towns alive. Also, instead of arcs, would like more updates so progress upward instead of sideways. As of now, it seems to be the same stories over and over ...
Fun game, but issues over the update. Many people moved away from interesting settlements from the beginning of the game and food like berries takes too long to be replinshed.
As I've said before I don't mind if people use my account to play but don't be an asshat and change the review. That's just being a dick.
Recommended Mirelli (2,150.9 hours on record)
Posted 10 months ago
This used to be one of my favorite games, with my hours as evidence, but I can't say the same now after the new "arc update"; with all the players crammed together and sharing finite resources in a tiny little hell box. Everyone is frustrated by the baby apocalypse and lack of progress. It's a constant scramble for food (if you survive infancy) so things can't really get done anymore. I would only...
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 demonicblack (1,749.9 hour on record)
Posted 9 months ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended person (1,647.0 hour on record)
Posted 18 months ago
Good game, although please fix the naming system.
Recommended Shaivi Bane (1,630.4 hour on record)
Posted 10 months ago
Great game, with weekly updates for only 20 dollars!
Recommended shampein (1,600.6 hour on record)
Posted 24 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 RedBack (1,587.0 hour on record)
Posted 22 months ago
The Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started Starship - We Built This City Madonna - Nothing Really Matters Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry Children Collide - Farewell Rocketship
I can't play the game correctly due to wolves appearing as plates, and vice versa. Your discord server is full of shits who won't help because of dumb grudges from a completely different place. I don't recommend the game due to griefers, and I 100% dont recommend the discord server.
Not Recommended Siyona (1,223.1 hour on record)
Posted 23 days ago
OH, PLEASE.... You've got to upgrade user interface in this game first. Make NO MORE complicated rules and stuff. I am tired to get new ppl to know some rules such as like hierarchical leadership shit or freakin yum system. I think only few players read your update news or forum, but many players get infomation IN THE GAME. You should know that. Sorry for the English. cause I don't speak English. ...
OH, PLEASE.... You've got to upgrade user interface in this game first. Make NO MORE complicated rules and stuff. I am tired to get new ppl to know some rules such as like hierarchical leadership shit or freakin yum system. I think only few players read your update news or forum, but many players get infomation IN THE GAME. You should know that. Sorry for the English. cause I don't speak English. ...
The sword was the most fun thing in the game, even after the shift-click update. People were joining raids and having the best lives they had had in the game while doing so. I loved it and I lead maybe over a hundred wars and raids on towns. Then the rift came, causing the crafting players to riot and grief the life out of it, giving us a moment of freedom when it was lifted. I even made a map in ...
You can undo a personal curse against someone by saying I FORGIVE JANE SMITH or I FORGIVE YOU.
A mistake in the way curses were counted has been fixed, where the count could grow stale relative to curses that had expired long ago. Unfortunately, this mistake resulted in at least one person being sent to donkeytown unfairly. I'm really sorry about this. For anyone else who was affected by this issue unfairly, please know that it was not brought to my attention until this week, and it is fixed now---you're free. [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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