8,215,088 lives lived for a total of 1,853,213 hours
975,007 people lived past age fifty-five
813 generations in longest family line 851 monuments completed, 3474 in progress
Current player arc has been going 111670 years Previous arc lasted 74136 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....
80 natural objects (latest: Rubber Tree with Pepper Vine)
22 playable characters
3117 human-makeable objects (latest: Blue Sports Car with Smashed Mosquitoes $30)
123,693 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.
Recommended Giovanni Brazil (61.3 hours on record)
Posted 34 days ago
I recommend this game because it has good graphics and sounds, it's cheap, and has updates weekly or monthly. One of the best indie games I have ever played, it's really worth it's price.
Recommended elmiste (716.0 hours on record)
Posted 36 days ago
hi
Recommended ML (2.0 hours on record)
Posted 44 days ago
Recommended Really good (357.3 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
I think my hours explain..
Recommended Rachel (35 minutes on record)
Posted 3 months ago
Everybody helped me, I lived to 40-odd years old (I think I got disconnected right as I was about to die), and I was just about to learn how to feed sheep. NEXT TIME!!
Recommended Mia Kalist (338.2 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago
This game is pretty awesome! While quite of few people get jaded of it after some time, people like me can play on and on, enjoying the practically endless possibilities! The art is fun, too, and the interactions, physics, and pretty much everything is fantastic and fun. Thank you, Jason!
Probably one of the better games you can ever play. Hardest part is learning, then unlearning, then relearning whenever things change. Hours speak for themselves.
Recommended Luna (2,357.9 hours on record)
Posted 2.1 years 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 Mirelli (2,152.0 hours on record)
Posted 15 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...
Recommended demonicblack (2,041.4 hours on record)
Posted 14 months ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended Mercury Lee (1,758.4 hour on record)
Posted 2.3 years ago
Lived so many times and died uncountable deaths. I left a trace too.
Recommended person (1,647.0 hour on record)
Posted 23 months ago
Good game, although please fix the naming system.
Recommended Shaivi Bane (1,630.4 hour on record)
Posted 15 months ago
Great game, with weekly updates for only 20 dollars!
Recommended shampein (1,604.7 hour on record)
Posted 2.4 years 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
Left the game for a long time. Came back and only certain races can go in certain biomes? There are tool slots? What the hell happened to this great game? I used to love it, I don't know if I can recommend it as it is now...
Not Recommended help (358.3 hours on record)
Posted 5 months ago
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.
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 ...
A bunch of impactful changes this week, mostly inspired by the deluge of new players from the recent Steam sale.
First of all, there's now a second phase in the tutorial, meant to help new players get accustomed to the game in a less high-pressure situation. New players often just want to experiment and learn crafting without having a whole village depending on their efficiency. Furthermore, being plopped into a thriving and cluttered village as a new player can be overwhelming. You just learned to chop kindling with a hatchet in the tutorial, and suddenly you find yourself in an environment with dozens of unknown tools. Yes, getting born into the middle of an existing situation is a fundamental premise of the game, but it's not a great environment in which to experiment with the basics. [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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