12,859,093 lives lived for a total of 3,631,193 hours
2,334,902 people lived past age fifty-five
957 generations in longest family line 1878 monuments completed, 5895 in progress
Current player arc has been going 1161 years Previous arc lasted 14761 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: Tarry Spot)
22 playable characters
3312 human-makeable objects (latest: Orbital Alignment Coordinates)
145,384 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.
I too was drawn into this game through Call Me Kevin's review and was curious about it. It has a bit of a learning curve but reminds me of early day Minecraft before anyone knew how to make anything. Really rewarding to help the generations out and the people you meet are mostly wholesome. Edit: many obsessive hours later, I can say there are some wholesome moments but watch out for people that...
Recommended tifaclocxii02 (4,538.1 hours on record)
Posted 17 months ago
i just wanna see how many hour i have
Recommended Morti (4,472.0 hours on record)
Posted 7.0 years ago
I think my time played speaks for itself.
Recommended Luniatji (4,369.0 hours on record)
Posted 4.5 years ago
Great game, would recommend it. Every game is different but the same at the same time, its great.
Recommended BubblyBee (4,247.5 hours on record)
Posted 2.1 years ago
This is the one game I always come back to. It's ruined my life :)
Recommended demonicblack (4,208.0 hours on record)
Posted 5.7 years ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended Bloom (3,710.5 hours on record)
Posted 19 months 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 shakir polachek (3,365.9 hours on record)
Posted 3.1 years 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 Lizzee (3,089.5 hours on record)
Posted 4.3 years ago
I laugh, I cry, but mostly I die.
Recommended Mark (2,922.3 hours on record)
Posted 7.0 years ago
I am got the berry but too late to eat, ooh, sorry mom...
This game is addictive as someone who likes learning complex crafting systems, survival co-op games, and light roleplaying.
I no longer recommend this game due to lack of moderation in game and on the game's Discord. There are a few bad apples griefing and ruining it for everyone else. The game concept is good, but I am disappointed that the dev disregards the majority of the community and...
This game is addictive as someone who likes learning complex crafting systems, survival co-op games, and light roleplaying.
I no longer recommend this game due to lack of moderation in game and on the game's Discord. There are a few bad apples griefing and ruining it for everyone else. The game concept is good, but I am disappointed that the dev disregards the majority of the community and...
People have been asking for some kind of censorship around bad words in speech for a long time. I don't want to censor things globally, and even if I did, it would be a never-ending arms race as people figured out cl evv er ways to bbbb y pass my f il ter s. Since everyone would be seeing the same filters, it would be easy for trolls to test them repeatedly to see what tricks can allow words to slip through. [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 | BBC Earth Explore
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
