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Our Life: Beginnings & Always

GB Patch Games · 2020-11-16

SteamGOG

CasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 16, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 16, 2020 (Android), Nov 16, 2020 (Linux), Nov 16, 2020 (Mac)

A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a free-to-play Casual, Indie, Free To Play game released in 2020, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (99% of 13760 reviews).

75
playing now
99%
positive of 14k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
4
Nexus mods (406 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

75 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 75 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 828 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~104/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 29,058 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Current store prices

GOG$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 47 of 47 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
69569520202026Week of 2020-11-01: 695 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 673 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 565 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 346 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 448 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 326 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 298 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 381 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 302 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

150702026-09-15 12:00 — 83 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 123 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 150 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 110 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 142 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 126 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 75 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 97 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 132 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 100 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 91 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 113 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 93 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 98 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 133 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 106 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 99 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 118 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 100 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 108 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 119 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 106 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 75 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
466126Nov 2020Aug 2026Nov 2020 — avg 409 · peak 733Jan 2021 — avg 242 · peak 421Mar 2021 — avg 158 · peak 249May 2021 — avg 208 · peak 368Jul 2021 — avg 205 · peak 321Sep 2021 — avg 289 · peak 1,754Nov 2021 — avg 167 · peak 260Jan 2022 — avg 199 · peak 350Mar 2022 — avg 243 · peak 395May 2022 — avg 213 · peak 338Jul 2022 — avg 201 · peak 292Sep 2022 — avg 205 · peak 1,526Nov 2022 — avg 195 · peak 309Jan 2023 — avg 197 · peak 362Mar 2023 — avg 162 · peak 278May 2023 — avg 466 · peak 1,937Jul 2023 — avg 281 · peak 411Sep 2023 — avg 197 · peak 310Nov 2023 — avg 186 · peak 312Jan 2024 — avg 207 · peak 323Mar 2024 — avg 196 · peak 316May 2024 — avg 187 · peak 296Jul 2024 — avg 207 · peak 308Sep 2024 — avg 168 · peak 253Nov 2024 — avg 149 · peak 247Jan 2025 — avg 174 · peak 292Mar 2025 — avg 183 · peak 305May 2025 — avg 206 · peak 393Jul 2025 — avg 173 · peak 250Sep 2025 — avg 132 · peak 211Nov 2025 — avg 126 · peak 200Jan 2026 — avg 144 · peak 233Mar 2026 — avg 141 · peak 207May 2026 — avg 143 · peak 212Jul 2026 — avg 140 · peak 205Aug 2026 — avg 127 · peak 184
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$0.00$0.002021-01-102026-10-142021-01-10 — best price $0.002026-08-29 — best price $0.002026-08-31 — best price $0.002026-09-02 — best price $0.002026-09-04 — best price $0.002026-09-06 — best price $0.002026-09-08 — best price $0.002026-09-10 — best price $0.002026-09-12 — best price $0.002026-09-14 — best price $0.002026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-09-18 — best price $0.002026-09-20 — best price $0.002026-09-22 — best price $0.002026-09-24 — best price $0.002026-09-26 — best price $0.002026-09-28 — best price $0.002026-09-30 — best price $0.002026-10-02 — best price $0.002026-10-04 — best price $0.002026-10-06 — best price $0.002026-10-08 — best price $0.002026-10-10 — best price $0.002026-10-12 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
88.6%
earned "Your Life"
24.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing9 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 9 DLC released, first 2020-11-16, latest 2024-07-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,15126%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

CuteOtomeLGBTQ+RomanceRelaxingDating SimFree to PlayReplay ValueSingleplayerVisual Novel

Census log

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

Recent updates

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