12,339,370 lives lived for a total of 3,446,864 hours
2,184,327 people lived past age fifty-five
957 generations in longest family line 1581 monuments completed, 5400 in progress
Current player arc has been going 4492 years Previous arc lasted 144137 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)
145,053 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.
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 Rookwood (682.4 hours on record)
Posted 3 days ago
A game like no other. You are born. Grow up. Raise a family. Work. And die. All in one hour.
Recommended gg (91.9 hours on record)
Posted 3 days ago
This game is fucking garbage fix donkeytown spawns if ur going to place players into thanks faggot
Recommended dionysus (18.0 hours on record)
Posted 7 days ago
Great game, would recommend. Griefers are a bit much sometimes but if you manage to get rid of them this is an awesome life simulator.
Recommended Neysa Hillstrom (249.6 hours on record)
Posted 36 days ago
Beautiful game. A great survival game, even better civilization simulator. And there's a lot of content inside. You can make almost anything, from an ax to chop trees to a working sports car to zoom around. And that's not including the stories you can make, of cooperation and of betrayal, of life and of death. You can live a life of farming the fields, or witness your family and everybody you know...
Fun, charming, but gets empty after a while. After a Civ gets to a certain point its not mutch to do tbh (and sry, ye I'll go on a slash die spree). LOVE to get into an EVE village or even BE EVE myself, but rather rare at times (need no or few fertiles..). Getting to be EVE (unless it's DED Donkey down) is verrry rare. Not the biggest playerbase, but people are often nice and welcoming. MOD...
Recommended tifaclocxii02 (4,341.2 hours on record)
Posted 10 months ago
i just wanna see how many hour i have
Recommended Luniatji (4,299.4 hours on record)
Posted 3.9 years ago
Great game, would recommend it. Every game is different but the same at the same time, its great.
Recommended demonicblack (4,000.4 hours on record)
Posted 5.1 years ago
even tho i dont like the rift the fixes jason is implementing are really nice
Recommended BubblyBee (3,820.1 hours on record)
Posted 19 months ago
This is the one game I always come back to. It's ruined my life :)
Recommended Bloom (3,591.1 hours on record)
Posted 12 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 BlahW (3,443.6 hours on record)
Posted 3 days 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 shakir polachek (3,343.0 hours on record)
Posted 2.6 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 Tea (2,893.0 hours on record)
Posted 3.8 years ago
Been playing since pretty much the beginning and I kinda wanna know how much time I have spend on this game.
Don't waste your time with this. Whatever you make will be gone by tomorrow. I got a town to last two days and was told "That's a really long time." I took a four hour nap and came back to find myself back at square one.
Unless you like constantly starting from scratch because of other people's incompetence, malice, or simply bad luck, don't bother with this game.
Not Recommended poop (21.6 hours on record)
Posted 39 days 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
Not Recommended Spoonwood (3,261.2 hours on record)
Posted 10 months ago
I just want to see how many hours I have.
Not Recommended Siyona (1,224.7 hour on record)
Posted 4.5 years ago
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. ...
Launch pads must now be built in populated areas, with coordinates discovered from the remote orbital alignment location. This brings rocket-building home, returning it to to community endeavor that it was in the beginning, while still limiting rocket launches to once every five hours.
There have also been many fixes and improvements to the Editor, based on feedback from the Another Planet content team. [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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