Steam app 1129190 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 19:13 UTC
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.
720 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
71 months, November 2020 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 437 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 283 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always was released on 16 Nov, 2020.
| Language | Full audio |
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| English |
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22 achievements in total.
40 developer announcements, Aug 2019 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
The Fall in Love Festival is back! We're honored to be featured in it once again.Both Our Life titles have a spot in the festival and the OLBA DLCs are on sale! Aside from our appearances, you can also check out an incredible lineup of…
GB PatchThroughout the month of June we've got two OL1 merch options available for pre-order. There's a T-shirt and socks, both with the style of the in-game group ORCA. You can wear the same shirt Cove does! It's nice to have this going during…
GB PatchHooray! The first Our Life apparel merch is live! I think it's really nice 🥰️.You can pre-order it now from Makeship. They've got Black Friday sales coming soon where fans get a 10% discount on all products and free shipping on orders over…
GB PatchToday the artbook for Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched! It's 10% off for the first full week. This is the last piece of extra content we'll release for the game 🥺️. Thank you for everything, Sunset Bird. Artbook Steam Page
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/2306c499f30a4c0f568377025b493beb2ab0e7ec.png The Our Life games are included in this year's The Storyteller’s Festival on Steam! If you haven't wishlisted Our Life: Now & Forever or there's still Our Life…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/a5aa6ebee96edf528555ce53b2882c0c2dc72303.gif Yes, Cove James Holden is once again available in plushie form! Though this time he's eight-years-old and has some nifty extra features. He comes with a detachable…
GB PatchHello! Steam is updating how currencies are handled for Argentina and Turkey and Our Life: Beginnings & Always prices were updated to support that. We've changed the prices for the Argentina Peso and Turkish Lira, and added prices for the…
GB PatchToday Our Life version 1.7.1 went live! It fixed the errors reported for Baxter's DLC and added a handful of improvements throughout the entire game. If there are any updates beyond this, they will only be to make minor typo fixes. Our Life…
Patch notesEnjoy exciting summer days in the company of Baxter Ward during Steps 3 and 4! From May 19th to the morning of May 26th, the Baxter DLC is 10% off! The older DLCs and the soundtrack have discounts ranging from 20% to 25%. Baxter DLC Page…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/7bf1fe60dc6fec3b1c5cd3011318d5249c9879f0.png Yes, there it is. We officially have a release date for the most dramatic man's story and the final DLC for Our Life: Beginnings & Always. May 19th, 2023. We…
GB PatchHello! Thank you to everyone who has played the Derek DLC, and thank you for the feedback on it, too. We've released a patch to solve some problems people were having. Mainly, there were issues if you loaded an older save in the middle of…
Patch notesDerek's Story is out now 💖💖💖. Spend wonderful summer days in the company of Derek Suarez during Steps 2 and 4! This is an optional paid DLC for the free game Our Life: Beginnings & Always. I appreciate how patiently people have waited for…
GB PatchDerek's DLC is launching on September 29th, 2022 🥳️. We've fixed up the beta bug reports, added finishing touches, and are finally ready to share Derek's story with everybody. He is a great guy and I hope people will love getting to spend…
GB PatchThe Derek DLC now has a public coming soon page! You can wishlist it ahead of the launch. And we'll be able to announce an actual release date pretty soon, too 😄 Derek DLC Page
GB PatchHey everyone! We've got another small bug fixing patch today. It corrected some additional typos and such, but the main fix was to resolve an error pop up that appeared when calling Derek in the Step 2 Moment "Soiree". Thanks for the…
Patch notes{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/b8df18b5977f00b523ccea70e98b20f12776a0e6.png Cove James Holden from “Our Life: Beginnings & Always” is now available as a plush for a limited time only! The design featured is his Step 3 “young adult” stage.…
GB PatchWe've released a new bug patch for Our Life: Beginnings & Always. It removed the issue with the Jeremy sprite staying on screen too long in the Wedding DLC, a couple cases where characters would recall events that didn't happen in your…
Patch notes{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/dc77f4cdfb91a281c36961d814429296e3613e06.png Congratulations on your wedding, everyone 🥰️! This DLC is in the running for the longest expansion word-count-wise, added way more new art assets than prior DLCs, and…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/d5b610fbc3963ed26392a42729115b04c5672da8.png It's official, the Wedding DLC is done and we're creating the build to launch! But there were also other things that came together around this time that we'll be…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/1fc9dd1c7679c5468f8905ff4a85a40f35cdacaa.jpg It's really been a full year since Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched. I've had a long time to write a message for this occasion, but I'm doing it not many hours…
GB PatchWe’ve released a bug fix patch for Step 4 of Our Life! These are the patch notes: • The errors on the character/Cove creation screens are gone • The game skipping to the wrong Step is resolved • Part of the ending CG not being able to…
Patch notes{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/3acf5769d4073644558ef121a002e282e4cd9d42.jpg You can finally continue your story after the credit sequence with a final five-year time-skip. Return to Sunset Bird once more for a heartwarming epilogue. Our Life…
GB PatchThere's a problem we're having with the Steam build where instead of loading the new update, it tries to launch an "EmptySteamDepot". I don't know why. It's not something we've experienced before. Perhaps we missed some kind of change to…
GB PatchOur Life: Beginnings & Always Step 4 launches in two days!! Amazing. It’s a free update that continues the story past the ending credits. It adds about 80,000 more words to the script. Step 4 is an epilogue that isn’t separated into…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/bbf77f5cb5ace1be28a62a623552603f8cd9a2cc.jpg Begin your life anew in this second installment to the lovingly nostalgic “Our Life” series. Fall has settled over a quaint town high on a mountain as the story…
GB PatchThe Step 3 DLC for Our Life: Beginnings & Always is officially out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/5e8d07f584b0e3a1684dcbd37a65dc58ec7f17b5.jpg The day has finally come. Spend even more time in the summer of young adulthood by doubling the…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/824f74525134ccbd1e94369b550af0cd9f2b8606.jpg This is it- Friday, April 16th, 2021 the Our Life Step 3 DLC will launch! Just two weeks from now. We'll see you soon, Cove ✨ You can check out the Steam page and…
GB PatchHello everyone! Thank you very much for your patience on the next update for Our Life. Every time we added the "final touch", we came up with something else to improve. But the latest version is finally available. Here's a list of what we…
GB Patch{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35694061/a43b2373a761be913f732f1d12c86e3be62d575c.jpg Things did not go as we expected in 2020, but we managed to release the main story of Our Life: Beginnings & Always and some of the DLCs. We’ll take that success.…
GB PatchThe Voiced Name DLC has released! You can now add preset voiced names to your game build and have Cove say your name of choice aloud. Our Life Build 1.1 has also launched! We've got a list of changes we've made since OL has initially…
GB PatchHey everyone! Unfortunately, our lead dev who was going to run the live stream during the Steam Autumn festival is under the weather. We won't be able to have the livestream at the expected time or, to be safe, during another point in the…
Patch notesA welcoming, nostalgic visual novel. The Our Life demo is polished and consistently interactive. 87,000 words long, dozens of choices, and highly customizable to the player's preferences. Create your own character while growing from…
GB PatchUnfortunately, because of some serious outside emergencies, Our Life: Beginnings & Always requires a delay. The new date is November 16th, 2020. So, two additional weeks. Despite that, OL really is coming together. The script is at around…
GB PatchWe’ve released another large expansion for the public Our Life: Beginnings & Always demo. For those who’ve played prior builds, the big addition for this version is a brand new, full-sized Moment to enjoy that includes mini-games. For those…
GB PatchWe're excited to announce that Our Life: Beginnings & Always now has its official release date! It will be coming out on Cove's birthday- November 2nd, 2020. That will be for Steps 1-3, the Step 4 epilogue will still be coming out at a…
GB PatchThe Our Life demo been re-released to support Linux systems now! We’ve also largely improved/expanded the whole thing. Demo Details: -A 67,000 word script, up from 54,000 words in the prior version. -A story that starts in childhood and…
GB PatchHey! Today we've released an expansion of the demo. Here's what it's got going for it: -10,000 additional words -A brand new complete Moment: Long Day -Another CG image -A new character introduction in Step 2 -New background art -Some…
GB PatchOur Life: Beginnings & Always is going to be at PAX East from February 27th to March 1st! We’re a part of the Indie MEGABOOTH, specifically as a member of the Visual Novel Reading Room. OL is just one leg of the team. Along with us you’ll…
GB PatchOur Life has launched a crowdfunding campaign! There's plenty of neat rewards and a lot of new info on the game to look over. Please feel free to check it out~ Kickstarter Page! Thank you for all the support so far ❤
GB PatchHey! The Steam page and demo for Our Life are both now up and running. Hooray! The demo can be downloaded from Itch.io for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Our Life Demo It's been a long time coming and we hope you'll enjoy the start of…
GB PatchEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Artbook | WindowsLinux | 26 Jul 2024 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Baxter's Story | WindowsLinux | 19 May 2023 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Derek's Story | WindowsLinux | 29 Sep 2022 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Cove Wedding Story | WindowsLinux | 07 Feb 2022 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Step 3 Expansion | WindowsLinux | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 02 Dec 2020 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Voiced Name Expansion | WindowsLinux | 30 Nov 2020 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Step 2 Expansion | WindowsLinux | 16 Nov 2020 |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Step 1 Expansion | WindowsLinux | 16 Nov 2020 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | OurLife.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | OurLife.sh | linux |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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