11,504,805 lives lived for a total of 3,137,961 hours
1,941,051 people lived past age fifty-five
957 generations in longest family line 1466 monuments completed, 4981 in progress
Current player arc has been going 889044 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...
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.
good game checking hours mostly but it is amazing the community build in to the game
Recommended trekkieA (1,817.5 hour on record)
Posted 18 days ago
game good yet?
Recommended RinaIffer (1,019.7 hour on record)
Posted 21 days ago
I have been playing this game for years, and i love it so much best game ever!
Recommended SqueeGee (1,092.2 hour on record)
Posted 21 days ago
great game i play it everyday!
Recommended GELLYGEL (1,351.8 hour on record)
Posted 29 days ago
WANTED TO SEE HOW MANY HOURS IM AT.
Recommended ashely (410.1 hours on record)
Posted 30 days ago
2323
Recommended ru (46.4 hours on record)
Posted 34 days ago
this is a pretty good game, needs a few things though
maybe add a way to create a bandit republic or like a ring of assassins or make apoc way easier so i can do it alone also cheese
Recommended Bloom (3,220.5 hours on record)
Posted 42 days 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 male (1,235.7 hour on record)
Posted 42 days ago
Great game. Takes a bit to get the hang of, but once you get the basics it's smooth sailing and lots of fun.
Great game, would recommend it. Every game is different but the same at the same time, its great.
Recommended demonicblack (3,600.5 hours on record)
Posted 4.3 years ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended tifaclocxii02 (3,377.7 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago
I review because i want to see my hour.Honestly i love to pretend to be a mother because i cant be a real mother because i am not married yet.Pray for me to be a real mother when i marry my boyfriend
Recommended BubblyBee (3,331.7 hours on record)
Posted 8 months ago
This is the one game I always come back to. It's ruined my life :)
Recommended shakir polachek (3,307.7 hours on record)
Posted 20 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 Bloom (3,220.5 hours on record)
Posted 42 days 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 (2,889.1 hours on record)
Posted 2.9 years ago
Been playing since pretty much the beginning and I kinda wanna know how much time I have spend on this game.
where is the end game as promised where is everything you promised jason the robots the vr the computers decoration and etc we need that! please jason we need an end game also you are sending players for donkey town for slash dying seven times or ten or less thats stupid jason fix your game already!
Not Recommended Din (184.1 hours on record)
Posted 42 days ago
I personally think, the curse limit is moronic. My great grandkids will play this game in spite.
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 ...
The four different groups of people in the game have had different specialties for a while. Three of the groups have biome specialties, making them the experts who can obtain resources from the jungle, the desert, or the arctic. The forth group had no specialty biome to call their own, so they became the language experts---the one group that could talk to all the other groups with no language barrier. The idea was that they could serve as a kind of trading group, traveling from area to area in the world and exchanging specialty resources. [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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