11,331,299 lives lived for a total of 3,071,219 hours
1,887,161 people lived past age fifty-five
957 generations in longest family line 1412 monuments completed, 4831 in progress
Current player arc has been going 782323 years Previous arc lasted 1228 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)
124,605 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 A GREAT GAME - ZH-CN (13.9 hours on record)
Posted 30 days ago
One Hour One Life is a great game. It's addictive. Fertility, growth, death. Every step is full of surprise or sadness. But it has a drawback - it doesn't support Chinese! What to do? We made its Chinese version and were able to connect to the official server.Email me at is.52hertz@gmail.com .
Recommended xbx (7.9 hours on record)
Posted 30 days ago
lovely anarcho-comunist heaven!
Recommended GABRIELLE (375.1 hours on record)
Posted 48 days ago
I really love this game and will always play it. That being said the game is getting stale due to two things. The first thing is the road, I liked the game so much more before they added the road, everyone is just way to close together now. There isn't even any war anymore so being close just sucks. The second thing is that the servers just don't get reset enough. I haven't been in a town that doe...
Great game, would recommend it. Every game is different but the same at the same time, its great.
Recommended demonicblack (3,479.5 hours on record)
Posted 4.1 years ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended shakir polachek (3,288.9 hours on record)
Posted 18 months ago
no se que pasa pero quiero jugar y constantemente aparecen cosas por favor fijate si podes eliminar a la persona que lo esta haciendo
Recommended BubblyBee (3,218.7 hours on record)
Posted 6 months ago
This is the one game I always come back to. It's ruined my life :)
Recommended Bloom (3,061.7 hours on record)
Posted 2.4 years ago
No life is ever quite the same. Some things are complicated (playing on Mac, well progression, specialty biomes) but once you get over the learning curve its a lot of fun
Recommended Tea (2,874.3 hours on record)
Posted 2.7 years ago
Been playing since pretty much the beginning and I kinda wanna know how much time I have spend on this game.
Recommended Nobody (2,738.7 hours on record)
Posted 8 months ago
Just checking my hours. :P
Recommended Tarr (2,708.4 hours on record)
Posted 3.2 years ago
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.
Not Recommended BUYER BEWARE (96.6 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago
This game used to be a lot of fun. Then the creator decided to axe free will from the game. So what if a player chooses to steal, destroy, or kill? That's a part of real life, and should be in the game too. Instead if a player does or says one little thing another player doesn't like, they are cursed and immediately relegated to Donkey Town on the next play through, sometimes a ban lasting several...
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 ...
Many fixes this week, including domestic production of worms through compost piles and mass-transportation of worms in buckets.
You can now cultivate willow trees and bald cypress trees, though only in swamp areas. But these are the only trees in the game that can be cultivated without irrigation.
You can cut a rope back into its component threads. You can remove cool glass from bowls and stack it. [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...]
The thinking behind One Hour One Life
How to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning
Bonsai: the Endless Ritual | Extraordinary Rituals | Earth Unplugged
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
