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One Hour One Life

Jason Rohrer · 2018-11-08

Steam

IndieMassively MultiplayerSimulation

Modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Feb 27, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 27, 2018 (Linux)

A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.

One Hour One Life is an Indie, Massively Multiplayer and Simulation game released in 2018, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 4678 reviews).

16
playing now
80%
positive of 4.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

16 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

One Hour One Life is a 2018 massively multiplayer online game developed and published by Jason Rohrer. Each player in the survival game lives for, at most, 60 minutes in a large, persistent world, with each minute representing a year of life. They must gather and grow food, craft tools and build societies in order to survive. The game's source code and assets are placed into the public domain, and are freely available on GitHub, with accounts being sold for access to the primary servers hosting the game. Originally available only on the website onehouronelife.com, it was later released on Steam in November 2018.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 16 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 206 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~26/week).
  • · Review velocity up 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 117k–281k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,678 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2026-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32732720182026Week of 2018-11-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3272026-08-06 23:00 — 20 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 18 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 17 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 20 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 24 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 25 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 17 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 24 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 14 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 19 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 27 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 18 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 21 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 16 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 16 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.742018-11-092026-07-092018-11-09 — best price $19.992019-11-21 — best price $19.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-07-09 — best price $19.992020-09-21 — best price $19.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992020-12-01 — best price $19.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-05-31 — best price $19.992021-07-08 — best price $19.992021-10-28 — best price $7.492021-11-24 — best price $7.492021-12-22 — best price $7.492022-01-27 — best price $7.492022-06-23 — best price $7.492022-08-01 — best price $7.492022-11-22 — best price $7.492022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-03-16 — best price $7.492023-06-29 — best price $7.492023-11-21 — best price $7.492023-12-21 — best price $7.492024-03-14 — best price $7.492024-04-27 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-11-29 — best price $7.492024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-06-26 — best price $7.492025-09-29 — best price $7.492025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-03-16 — best price $3.742026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DramaFunnyIndieBuildingCraftingLife SimSurvivalColony SimHand-drawnOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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