Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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A nostalgic visual novel where you design your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable, choice-heavy story.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a feel-good simulation, as well as a “feel-better” one, where painful emotions such as sadness, anger, stress, and worry can all be expressed, then met with reassurance, understanding, and support.
It’s a wholesome experience that faces large steppingstones of life, while having a focus on familiar everyday moments. With notable amounts of customization for even tiny details, you can enjoy pleasures as simple as having a preferred type of drink and a neighbor who cares enough to remember what it is.
- 4 different periods of life to experience: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and fully grown
- Name, appearance, personality, and pronoun (he, she, or they) customization for your character
- Change your character's details however you like as you grow, including transitioning to new pronouns
- Shape your personality, feelings, and preferences, then see them reflected in the story as characters remember who you are
- 1 love interest, Cove Holden, whose personality, interests, and appearance will develop in a custom way over the years based on his experiences with you
- Decide for yourself how quickly or slowly the relationship with Cove develops by setting a unique dynamic; from love at first sight to last minute confessions to always being friends and more
- A welcoming, sentimental story that can easily be enjoyed over and over using new main character qualities or different connection types with Cove
- Font style and size customization. Hit the "A" key to open a screen that has text appearance options
- 397,000 words, 16-24 hours of content in total
Jamie Last (changeable name) has spent the last couple weeks on a summertime high. At eight-years-old, nothing is better than what feels like endless days of school-less adventures, especially when you live walking distance from the beach. While coming home under a scorching sunset one fine evening, Jamie is approached by a stranger. The man is looking for a kid who can do him a favor, and he’s even offering to pay for it. He wants Jamie to please be friends with his only child. The person is Mr. Holden, Jamie’s new neighbor, as well as the father of the odd, and oddly named boy, Cove. Whether Jamie wants to play along or not, Cove isn’t going anywhere. He's present in Jamie's life for far longer than they ever would've guessed.
And then the long days of vacation finally come to an end. Summer may not be able to last forever, but Jamie can take comfort in knowing it will come back again someday…
Announcements
April 16th, 2021 - STEP 3 DLC LAUNCH!
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 Wishlist it HERE. It will cost the sa
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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. Another huge bright spot of the year
Our Life Version 1.5.4
Hey 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
Our Life: Happy Anniversary!!! 🎉
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 before it has to go up, aha. I co
Our Life Step 3 DLC Launch!
The Step 3 DLC for Our Life: Beginnings & Always is officially out!The day has finally come. Spend even more time in the summer of young adulthood by doubling the amount of Moments available in Step
Derek DLC Launch! 🎉
Derek'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 apprec
Our Life: Cove Wedding DLC Launch! 💖
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 is very alteration heavy with t
Step 4 Launch: Sept 18th, 2021!
Our 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 e
Our Life Build 1.2 Launch + 100 New Voiced Names!
Hello 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 final
Cove Plushie Now Available (Limited Time Only)!
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. Cove’s grown up and is ready to mov
Next Project Announcement- Our Life: Now & Forever!
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 begins. But it isn’t only the leaves th
Our Life: Derek DLC Coming Soon Page!
The 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
Our Life 1.6.1
Hello!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
Our Life 1.4.1 Patch!
We’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 o
Wedding DLC Release Date & Plushie Poll!
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 releasing as well. So, here's everyth
Voiced Name DLC Release & Our Life Build 1.1!
The 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
Our Life: Version 1.5.3
We'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 reca
Our Life: DEREK DLC RELEASE DATE!
Derek'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
Our Life Step 4 is out now! 🎉🎉🎉
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: Beginnings & Always is a nostalg
Game Not Launching Error
There'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. Pe
