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12,608,090 lives lived for a total of 3,544,261 hours
2,263,109 people lived past age fifty-five
957 generations in longest family line
1642 monuments completed, 5569 in progress
Current player arc has been going 16245 years
Previous arc lasted 126 years

a multiplayer survival game of parenting
and civilization building by Jason Rohrer
2339 Player Reviews, 93% Positive



No DRM

No middle-person

Cross-platform

Open Source
  • Lifetime server account
  • All future updates
  • Unlock on Steam
  • Full source code
  • Tech support included
Available now for $20


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)
145,303 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.

You can take a look at the system requirements.




93% Positive Reviews:
Recent Reviews:

Recommended
GABRIELLE (391.2 hours on record)
Posted 7 days ago

One of my favorite parts about this game is that every death is sudden. You know you're going to die at 60 minutes, you always will, but it's still sudden. You still don't want it to happen.

Recommended
BiqHerb (118.9 hours on record)
Posted 9 days ago

only been playing this game for a month and it is by far my fav game. def worth the buy (and i got it not on sale)

Recommended
doudou (3.4 hours on record)
Posted 17 days ago

why can't i talk with others.
does have someone can help me

Recommended
Cheese Forever (123.1 hours on record)
Posted 26 days ago

This game is lovely.

Recommended
nigger (119.3 hours on record)
Posted 30 days ago


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Hopie (1,360.7 hour on record)
Posted 34 days ago

Just checking my hours.

Recommended
Baddie with the fatt (414.1 hours on record)
Posted 47 days ago

THIS GAME IS FUCKING ASS BRO

Recommended
yzhyy (11.9 hours on record)
Posted 51 days ago

wkdpsadpoa

Recommended
CMTG (199.8 hours on record)
Posted 2 months ago

holy crap best game ever

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Top Playtime Reviews:

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Morti (4,472.0 hours on record)
Posted 6.7 years ago

I think my time played speaks for itself.

Recommended
tifaclocxii02 (4,461.6 hours on record)
Posted 13 months ago

i just wanna see how many hour i have

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Luniatji (4,344.9 hours on record)
Posted 4.2 years ago

Great game, would recommend it. Every game is different but the same at the same time, its great.

Recommended
demonicblack (4,121.1 hours on record)
Posted 5.4 years ago

even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice

Recommended
BubblyBee (4,004.7 hours on record)
Posted 22 months ago

This is the one game I always come back to. It's ruined my life :)

Recommended
BlahW (3,931.3 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago

This game is addictive if you like learning complex crafting systems, survival co-op games, and light roleplay. Without mods it's very challenging, so recommend getting QOL mods so you aren't pointing and clicking all day spraining your wrist.

Recommended
Bloom (3,708.5 hours on record)
Posted 15 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 (3,363.9 hours on record)
Posted 2.8 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 (2,962.2 hours on record)
Posted 4.0 years ago

I laugh, I cry, but mostly I die.

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7% Negative Reviews:
Recent Reviews:

Not Recommended
fff (371.3 hours on record)
Posted 3 months ago

im always high everytime i start a life and even died of old age once but was still high in my next life pls help!!!


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Not Recommended
poop (26.5 hours on record)
Posted 4 months ago

I thought this game was all human players. well it is, except it's the same 3 retards playing on 100 different accounts just abusing easy mechanics

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Spoonwood (3,271.5 hours on record)
Posted 13 months ago

I just want to see how many hours I have.

Not Recommended
parsnip (1,394.0 hour on record)
Posted 21 months ago

fantastic.

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Update: Personal Blacklist
January 13, 2025

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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.
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Fan Art: by Yamina S.
December 18, 2021

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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.
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The thinking behind One Hour One Life
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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
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