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One Hour One Life

One Hour One Life is a massively multiplayer online survival video game developed and self-published by independent designer Jason Rohrer.^[1]^[2] Released on February 27, 2018, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, the game compresses an entire human lifespan into 60 minutes of real time, during which players must forage, craft tools, raise families, and contribute to communal civilizations in a persistent, procedurally generated world.^[3] Gameplay centers on emergent social dynamics and intergenerational legacy-building, with players spawning as infants born to an existing player acting as their mother, requiring immediate care to survive infancy and grow into adulthood.^[2] Over the course of their virtual life, individuals perform tasks like farming, engineering, and defense against environmental threats, such as wolves or starvation, while forming villages that evolve across hundreds of generations through player cooperation.^[1] The game's mechanics enforce realism and interdependence—no tutorials or maps are provided—leading to unique narratives shaped by player interactions, including birth, death, and inheritance of knowledge via a shared technology tree encompassing over 3,000 craftable items.^[1] Developed as a solo project by Rohrer, known for prior indie titles like Passage (2007), One Hour One Life emphasizes philosophical themes of mortality, family bonds, and societal progress without traditional progression systems or combat focus.^[4] Priced at $20 on the official website, purchases include access to the main server, all future updates, and a full source code bundle for compilation, reflecting its DRM-free and cross-platform ethos.^[1] As of November 2025, the game has amassed over 13 million player lives, received its last major update in January 2025, and maintains an approximately 80% positive rating from over 3,800 Steam reviews, highlighting its enduring appeal in the indie simulation genre.^[1]^[2]

Gameplay

Core Mechanics

One Hour One Life features a unique time-compression system where each player's character lives a full human lifespan of 60 years within 60 real-time minutes, with every minute of play equating to one year of in-game age.^[5] This accelerated progression begins at birth as a helpless infant and ends in natural death at age 60 unless the player succumbs earlier to starvation, dehydration, or other hazards.^[2] The permadeath mechanic ensures that once a character's life ends, the player cannot respawn in the same world instance; instead, new lives begin either as infants born to existing female players or as "Eves"—mature female characters who spawn alone to seed new villages on the infinite procedural map.^[5]^[6] Survival in the game revolves around managing a depleting hunger meter, represented as a bar in the user interface, which demands constant attention to prevent death. Players must forage wild resources like berries or hunt small animals, cultivate farms for sustainable yields such as carrots, or rely on communal efforts to share meals and water sources like bowls or wells. Water is essential for farming and certain recipes but not a personal survival meter.^[5]^[2] Failure to maintain these needs leads to rapid weakening and death, emphasizing the game's core tension between individual vulnerability and group interdependence for long-term village viability.^[6] The crafting system forms the backbone of progression, enabling players to create 3,323 distinct objects (as of November 2025) through an expansive tech tree that evolves from rudimentary stone-age tools to complex structures and inventions like machinery or monuments.^[6] Initially designed to reach 10,000 items, the system requires combining raw materials—such as knapping a sharp stone from a round stone and large rock—in precise sequences learned through trial, observation, or inheritance from elders.^[5] This hierarchical progression demands multi-generational effort, as no single life can unlock the full tree, fostering a sense of cumulative advancement across hundreds of player lifetimes.^[7] Environmental persistence ensures that player actions have lasting consequences on the shared world, a vast 4 billion by 4 billion tile grid where resource depletion, such as overharvesting wild plants, or constructions like fences and buildings remain indefinitely unless deliberately dismantled.^[5] These changes carry forward across sessions and generations, allowing later players to inherit depleted landscapes or thriving settlements, which reinforces the game's themes of legacy and ecological impact.^[6]^[2] Gender mechanics introduce biological asymmetry, with players randomly assigned male or female at birth on a 50/50 basis, influencing reproductive capabilities but not core survival tasks. Female characters can give birth to new player infants during their fertile years, typically from in-game ages 14 to 40 (corresponding to 14-40 real-time minutes), thereby populating the village and continuing the lineage, while male characters focus primarily on labor-intensive roles like resource gathering or building.^[5]^[2] Beyond this reproductive function, the game simulates no additional physiological differences between genders.^[6] In One Hour One Life, the parenting system forms the core of player interactions, where female players give birth to newborns who spawn as other real players and require immediate care to survive. Mothers must feed infants through breastfeeding, which replenishes the baby's hunger bar at the cost of the mother's own food supply, and protect them from environmental hazards until the child reaches age 3 and can begin contributing to tasks like gathering resources.^[8] Abandonment by the mother typically results in the infant's death from starvation within minutes, emphasizing the game's theme of familial responsibility and the high stakes of neglect.^[9] Village formation emerges organically as players collaborate across generations to establish settlements, with individuals specializing in roles such as farming crops for sustenance, mining iron for tools, engineering structures like ovens or aqueducts, or providing leadership through teaching and resource allocation. These multi-generational societies evolve from small family groups into larger communities, where players inherit tools and knowledge from predecessors, such as an axe passed down from a grandparent, enabling sustained progress.^[6] Communication occurs via a chat system limited by age—starting with single symbols for infants and expanding to full sentences—and emotes, fostering coordination in building and survival efforts.^[8] Emergent social elements highlight the game's emphasis on legacy, as players die after one hour and pass on skills or items to offspring, creating narratives of continuity amid inevitable loss; however, griefing behaviors like resource hoarding, sabotage of farms, or intentional infanticide can disrupt villages, often stemming from player frustration or strategic disagreements. Gender dynamics in practice reinforce female dependency on males, as only women can reproduce, leading to strategies where villages prioritize protecting mothers while males handle labor-intensive tasks like defense against wolves or resource gathering, potentially creating inequalities if food scarcity forces tough choices like abandoning male infants.^[10]^[9] Civilization progression requires coordinated effort over hundreds of lives, advancing from nomadic survival—relying on wild berries and basic fires—to complex societies featuring engineering feats like aqueducts for irrigation or large-scale ovens for baking, all built on a vast tech tree of 3,323 craftable objects (as of November 2025) that demand intergenerational knowledge transfer.^[6] Conflicts arise indirectly from resource scarcity or differing priorities, such as debates over farm expansion versus conservation, without formal player-versus-player combat; resolution typically occurs through social norms, like community voting on resource use or cursing disruptive players to prevent rebirth in the village, maintaining group cohesion.^[11]^[12]

Development

Conception and Design Philosophy

Jason Rohrer, a solo independent game developer known for titles such as The Castle Doctrine (2013), conceived One Hour One Life as a response to the prevalent toxicity in multiplayer survival games like Rust. Drawing from his over a decade of experience creating thought-provoking indie games, Rohrer aimed to design a system that incentivizes cooperation and mutual dependence rather than cutthroat competition, transforming online interactions into a social experiment on human interdependence.^[10]^[13] The game's core inspirations blended elements of civilization-building simulations, such as the survival aesthetics and depth found in Don't Starve, with real-life philosophical themes of parenting, mortality, and sustainability. Rohrer envisioned a persistent multiplayer world where players contribute to an ongoing human narrative, starting from a post-cataclysmic restart of society—a concept rooted in a long-standing thought experiment about how long it would take to rebuild advanced technology from primitive resources. This approach emphasized emergent storytelling driven by mechanics, allowing players to experience a tiny role in a vast, generational epic rather than individual heroism.^[10]^[14] Central to the design goals was simulating human lifespan constraints within a one-hour real-time cycle to foster legacy-building and intergenerational reliance, encouraging players to raise "children" who carry forward progress in infinite procedural worlds. Philosophically, the game highlights environmental impact through resource depletion mechanics that mirror real ecological limits, while incorporating gender roles to reflect biological realities—such as women serving as the reproductive bottleneck—without exaggeration or prescriptive stereotypes. Rejecting traditional MMO progression systems, Rohrer prioritized organic societal growth, where villages evolve through player-driven innovation in a vast tech tree spanning hundreds of generations. The project, announced in 2016, was planned as an ambitious endeavor to support long-term engagement without artificial objectives, culminating in its 2018 release after iterative development focused on engaging short sessions.^[14]^[4]

Technical Implementation

One Hour One Life was developed single-handedly by Jason Rohrer over approximately three years, utilizing custom tools and without the assistance of a development team.^[15] The game's codebase, written primarily in C and C++, totals around 145,755 lines and includes client, server, and editor components, enabling efficient solo iteration through weekly updates focused on new features, bug fixes, and community feedback.^[1]^[16] The graphics adopt a simple pixel-art style, with assets hand-drawn by Rohrer, scanned, and integrated via a custom object editor that facilitates rapid prototyping without traditional programming for interactions.^[7] This approach allowed for the creation of thousands of items, targeting up to 10,000 craftable objects, where Rohrer aimed to add about 100 per week during development.^[7] Sound effects, a novel addition for Rohrer's games, were recorded simply, such as vocal approximations for environmental noises like rubble.^[16] Server architecture features custom-built multiplayer servers hosted independently, supporting persistent worlds where player modifications to the environment are stored in an append-only custom database engine to handle real-time synchronization for up to hundreds of players per instance without relying on off-the-shelf databases.^[16] These servers manage high concurrency, ensuring stability for ongoing sessions across global players.^[16] Procedural generation creates an infinite world using seeded 1/f-style Perlin noise algorithms, generating terrain, resources, and biomes on-demand across a vast 4 billion by 4 billion tile map, with unmodified natural areas not stored to optimize memory.^[16] This ensures high replayability while sparsely saving only player-altered tiles for persistence.^[16] In 2018, upon release, the core code was made available under public domain, allowing community access, contributions, and forks, with the full source including server software obtainable via purchase or GitHub repository.^[17] Performance optimizations emphasize a lightweight client compatible with low-end hardware, leveraging C/C++ for efficient rendering and real-time network synchronization of player actions, such as movement and crafting, to maintain smooth gameplay on older systems.^[16] The content pipeline incorporates automated systems within the editor for balancing crafting recipes through relational definitions, alongside simulations for object physics, including thermodynamic cellular models for heat propagation from fires and basic fluid dynamics for water sources.^[7]^[18]

Release

Initial Launch

One Hour One Life entered early access on February 27, 2018, through the official website onehouronelife.com, where it was available as a paid download for $20.^[19] This initial release marked the debut of the multiplayer survival game developed and published by Jason Rohrer, focusing on a core gameplay loop of parenting, resource gathering, and civilization building within a one-hour lifespan per character.^[2] The game achieved its full launch on Steam on November 8, 2018, concluding the early access phase that had included numerous updates to refine mechanics and content.^[2] On its first day on Steam, it sold approximately 315 copies, reflecting a modest start compared to Rohrer's prior titles but setting the stage for subsequent growth.^[20] At launch, the game featured essential elements such as basic village construction, crafting systems for tools and resources, and support for independent servers to enable customized multiplayer experiences.^[2] Marketing for the initial release eschewed traditional advertising, instead leveraging Rohrer's established reputation in indie game development, announcements via Twitter, a mailing list of around 19,000 subscribers, and organic word-of-mouth within gaming communities.^[19] This approach contributed to steady initial sales, with 484 units sold in the first week across platforms.^[19] Player feedback during the early rollout highlighted the game's viral social dynamics, leading to rapid expansion of the player base as communities formed around shared survival narratives.^[21] Servers quickly reached capacity, with reports of half-full populations shortly after launch, driven by the emergent storytelling and cooperative elements that encouraged repeated play sessions.^[19] From day one, the technical rollout supported cross-platform play on Windows, Linux, and macOS via downloadable clients from the official site, ensuring broad accessibility without reliance on a single storefront.^[22] While web-based client options were considered during development, the primary distribution focused on native desktop applications to maintain performance in the persistent multiplayer environment.^[23]

Platforms and Licensing Changes

One Hour One Life is supported on personal computer platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, with distribution available through the Steam platform and direct downloads from the developer's official website. The game requires compilation from source code for macOS and certain Linux distributions, but pre-built executables are provided for Windows and Linux. No official ports to consoles or mobile devices have been developed or released by the game's creator, Jason Rohrer, though the open-source framework has enabled unofficial community adaptations for mobile platforms.^[2]^[6] The game initially launched as a paid product in 2018, priced at $14.99 on Steam and $20 for direct purchase from the official site, with the fee granting lifetime access to Rohrer's hosted servers, all future updates, and technical support. This model separates the cost of server access from the freely modifiable game files, aligning with Rohrer's long-standing practice of releasing his works into the public domain to foster community engagement while sustaining official infrastructure through purchases. The source code, including client, server, and editor components, has been available since launch, allowing players to host their own servers at no cost.^[2]^[6]^[24] In 2020, Rohrer released version 361 of the source code explicitly under public domain dedication via the Internet Archive, removing any residual restrictions and emphasizing the game's transition toward full community stewardship. Following this, Rohrer scaled back major development as originally planned, though occasional minor updates to game mechanics and objects have continued into 2025, including version 433 released on November 12, 2025, with the main server running steadily since January 2025.^[25]^[26]^[27] The official servers persist under Rohrer's management, providing a central hub for play as of 2025.^[26] Server management has increasingly shifted to community-hosted instances, enabled by the open-source server software bundled with the code release. These independent worlds allow administrators to implement custom rules, such as altered resource balances or expanded timelines, and add new content like additional objects or biomes, extending the game's ecosystem beyond the official environment. The public domain status has enhanced accessibility by permitting seamless integration into Linux distributions and supporting derivative fan projects, including modified clients and experimental ports, without intellectual property barriers.^[6]^[17]^[28]

Reception

Critical Response

One Hour One Life received generally positive critical reception upon its release, with reviewers praising its innovative approach to multiplayer survival and social simulation. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 78/100 based on four critic reviews, reflecting appreciation for its unique mechanics and emotional depth. Italian magazine The Games Machine awarded it 9/10, highlighting the game's social depth and comparing it favorably to Don't Starve for its survival crafting elements, noting it as a "masterpiece of game design" that excels in cooperative civilization-building.^[29]^[30]^[31] Critics lauded the game's innovative lifespan mechanic, which compresses an entire life into 60 minutes, fostering a sense of urgency and encouraging player cooperation to advance society across generations. This system was seen as particularly effective in promoting interdependence, with The Games Machine emphasizing how the limited time drives players to collaborate on resource management and technological progression. The emotional impact of parenting and legacy-building also drew high praise; reviewers noted the profound attachments formed through raising virtual children and contributing to a shared family tree, creating intimate, emergent narratives that extend beyond individual play sessions.^[30]^[9] However, several reviews pointed to notable criticisms, including a steep learning curve for new players due to the absence of traditional tutorials and the complexity of the crafting system. Gamezebo described early sessions as requiring multiple short lives to "learn the ropes," which could frustrate beginners despite the game's forgiving reincarnation mechanic. The potential for griefing in unmoderated servers was another concern, as disruptive players could derail community efforts, though this was often framed as an emergent risk of the open multiplayer design rather than a core flaw. Additionally, the gender mechanics—where only female characters can bear children—were critiqued by some as reductive and bioessentialist, tying societal continuity disproportionately to women and limiting male roles to supportive ones, potentially reinforcing outdated stereotypes.^[32]^[9] Specific review highlights underscored the game's strengths in social experimentation. TouchArcade, rating it 4 out of 5 stars, noted the unique multiplayer family dynamics, where players spawn as babies dependent on others, leading to "fascinating" interactions centered on caregiving and collaboration rather than competition. Gamezebo, scoring it 90/100, praised the civilization progression through permanent items and a vast tech tree but critiqued the mobile controls as "fiddly," particularly the swipe mechanics that demand precision for efficient play.^[31]^[32] Early reviews from 2018 focused primarily on the novelty of the lifespan and multiplayer parenting systems.

Commercial and Community Impact

One Hour One Life achieved modest commercial success as an indie title, grossing nearly $700,000 in revenue by March 2019, approximately four months after its Steam launch. Initial sales were lower than those of developer Jason Rohrer's previous games, with only 315 units sold on the first day compared to higher figures for titles like The Castle Doctrine, though subsequent growth occurred through word-of-mouth recommendations and community buzz.^[33]^[20] The game's player base peaked during 2018-2019, reaching a concurrent high of 599 players shortly after release and accumulating an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 total owners via Steam. Thousands of unique players engaged monthly during this period, contributing to vibrant multiplayer sessions focused on civilization-building. As of November 2025, official server activity has declined to around 20-30 concurrent players, but the community sustains engagement through free access to the public domain source code and independently hosted servers, including private and modded instances. Official updates continued through mid-2024, with a patch in January 2025, while community forks like Two Hours One Life have maintained active player bases.^[34]^[35]^[36] Community contributions have been substantial, with fan-maintained wikis on platforms like Fandom and wiki.gg providing extensive documentation of the game's crafting system, covering hundreds of recipes for tools, food, and structures essential to gameplay. Official forums hosted by Rohrer serve as hubs for sharing strategies, personal anecdotes from in-game lives, and collaborative problem-solving, fostering a dedicated ecosystem around the title.^[37]^[38] The game has exerted a cultural impact by sparking discussions in game design about mechanics that promote empathy through familial roles and cooperative survival, as well as sustainability via resource management in persistent worlds. It has inspired community mods extending gameplay elements, such as the fork Two Hours One Life, and seen informal use in social simulation for exploring group dynamics. Post-2020, official player numbers waned, but this was offset by active forks and community efforts.^[14]^[26] Rohrer released the game into the public domain upon its launch in 2018, coupled with a donation-supported model, demonstrated sustainability for solo indie development, generating ongoing support while allowing free distribution. This approach has influenced other open-source indie projects by highlighting viable alternatives to traditional monetization in niche multiplayer genres.^[39]

You Are Hope

You Are Hope is an unofficial mobile adaptation of the multiplayer survival game One Hour One Life, developed by the Sweden-based studio Dual Decade under Wereviz AB. Released in 2018 for iOS and Android devices, it functions as a fork utilizing the open-source code of the original game, which had been made public domain by its creator Jason Rohrer. The adaptation runs on separate servers managed by Dual Decade, emphasizing collaborative rebuilding of civilizations across generations in a shared online world. The game adapts core mechanics such as the 60-minute real-time lifespan representing 60 in-game years, family-based progression, and resource crafting systems to suit mobile play. Touch controls enable one-handed interaction, including swiping to move, tapping to select items, and holding gestures for actions like equipping clothing or naming children. The user interface has been adjusted for portability, with a focus on intuitive navigation during shorter sessions, while retaining elements like farming, hunting, and settlement building. To enhance accessibility, community-driven tutorials and in-game prompts guide new players through complex crafting and social dynamics. Distinct from the original, You Are Hope features optimized graphics tailored for mobile performance, described as visually appealing yet efficient for battery and processing constraints. It includes exclusive content such as additional items like water ditches, bridges, and beehives not present in earlier versions of One Hour One Life, alongside a stronger emphasis on peaceful collaboration to mitigate griefing. The project received no official endorsement from Jason Rohrer, and its initial marketing as "One Hour One Life for Mobile" sparked disputes over branding and potential confusion among players. Reception has been generally positive for its portability and cooperative depth, earning an aggregate rating of 4.3 out of 5 on the iOS App Store from over 1,100 reviews, where users praise its addictive replayability and unique social simulation. On Google Play, it holds a 3.4 out of 5 rating from more than 5,400 reviews, with commendations for adapting a PC-centric experience to touchscreens. Criticisms often center on the precision of touch controls for intricate tasks and persistent issues with player griefing, though the game's design encourages communal harmony. Development has continued post-launch with regular updates incorporating community feedback from the official forum, including new seasonal content like Easter-themed items in recent versions. As of October 2025, the latest update introduced stylized enhancements, and the game remains actively available on both app stores with ongoing server support.

Two Hours One Life

Two Hours One Life emerged as an open-source fork of the original One Hour One Life, initiated by community moderators shortly after the base game's February 2018 release.^[40] It began operations on March 14, 2018, initially under the name dying.world as a semi-private server before adopting its current branding mid-year, offering free-to-play access exclusively on Windows and Linux platforms.^[40] This volunteer-driven project positioned itself as a moderated extension of the original, leveraging its open-source code to foster a more stable and expansive multiplayer environment without commercial ties to the developer Jason Rohrer.^[41] A core enhancement in Two Hours One Life is the extension of player lifespans from 60 minutes to 120 minutes, allowing for deeper intergenerational gameplay and more sustained civilization-building efforts.^[42] This change, combined with expanded crafting systems, introduces numerous additional recipes and items—such as new machinery like the machine press and lab table, along with reworked production chains for items like dynamite and bricks—enabling more complex engineering and resource management.^[43] The game receives frequent updates, often monthly or bi-monthly, incorporating player feedback to refine balance, add content like new foods (e.g., burgers and jerky), and improve quality-of-life features in systems such as smithing and milling.^[43] As of September 2025, the latest version (v20325) reflects this ongoing evolution, with the project maintaining an active development cycle through its GitHub repositories.^[40] The fork emphasizes community governance through volunteer-managed servers that support custom rules and events, such as role-playing scenarios on maps that persist for over six months.^[40] Enhanced moderation tools, integrated via Discord authentication and bots like Dictator, help mitigate griefing by enforcing bans for disruptive behavior and promoting cooperative play.^[44] Additional features include new biomes, like the ocean introduced in 2019, which expand exploration and settlement options, alongside engineering advancements such as dog kennels and improved spawn points for recurring village continuity.^[43] These elements build on the original's social survival mechanics while diverging through extended timelines and richer environmental interactions.^[42] Development remains entirely volunteer-based, coordinated through Discord channels, an active Fandom wiki with over 200 articles, and public GitHub repositories spanning C++, PHP, and data files.^[40] With 24 contributors documented as of 2025, the project sustains itself via community donations to cover server costs, ensuring free access and continuous content additions that have made it more populated than the original in recent years.^[40] As a spiritual successor, Two Hours One Life uses the original codebase as its foundation but introduces independent mechanics, such as the doubled lifespan, to revitalize the parenting and civilization-building experience for players seeking an updated, community-curated alternative.^[41]

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The game client, editor and server. It can be configured to build for Windows, Linux and Mac (Although Mac has not been supported since MacOS 10.15 and ...
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Two Hours One Life - One Hour One Life, play for free
Two Hours One Life is a standalone moderation of the original game One Hour One Life. Our game is completely free to play and driven by the community.
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Two Hours One Life Wiki - Fandom
One Hour One Life is a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building. The game was officially released on February 27, 2018. Within 2HOL are many ...
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Game versions - Official Two Hours One Life Wiki - Fandom
Current 2HOL Game Version: v20325 All the info can be also seen on the #notices channel on the 2HOL Discord. The game is available on Windows and Linux, ...Missing: fork origins launch
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First time playing - Two Hours One Life
Join Discord, download, extract, and install the game. Launch, log in with Discord details, and complete the tutorial. Pay attention to food and crafting.Missing: origins 2020