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One Hour One Life

PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux • 2018

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Quick resume

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.

Global score

81/100

Genres

Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulator, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)

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    Pros

    • Unique emotional and social experience
    • Deep cooperative gameplay
    • Strong community bonds
    • High replayability with emergent stories
    • Complex crafting and survival mechanics

    Cons

    • Steep learning curve
    • Some toxicity in community
    • Limited player base
    • Basic graphics and ui
    • Lack of recent updates

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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      "Players have extensive freedom to direct their own actions, choose how to build bases, assign roles, and make moral decisions affecting story and community."

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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      "Focus is on cooperation and personal skill rather than competitive ranking or leaderboards."

      Capsule for SimRail - The Railway Simulator SimRail - The Railway Simulator

      "Focus is on cooperation and personal contribution rather than direct competition or rankings."

    • Continuation

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      "Many players report long-term engagement, habitual play spanning years or decades, and strong attachment to the game world and community."

      Capsule for EverQuest EverQuest

      "Players often engage in many lives, returning repeatedly to build legacies and communities."

    • Cooperation

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      "Strong emphasis on teamwork, communication, and coordination to complete objectives and survive."

      Capsule for DEVOUR DEVOUR

      "Strong emphasis on teamwork, family roles, and helping others to survive and progress."

    • Creativity

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      3

      "Crafting, skill point allocation, and village building allow players to customize gameplay and approach."

      Capsule for Primal Planet Primal Planet

      "Players contribute to building and crafting in evolving villages, though within structured recipes and systems."

    • Domination

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      "Interactions emphasize mutual respect and shared goals rather than exerting control or superiority over others."

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    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game to immerse in an emotional story and escape real life stresses."

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      "Players use the game to experience emotional stories and escape real-life stresses through immersive roleplay."

    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily driven by intrinsic interest and curiosity."

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      "Players engage voluntarily driven by intrinsic interest and personal desire to explore and contribute."

    • Experimenting

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      "Players explore mechanics, experiment with building and combat styles, and try different strategies for village management."

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      "Players explore different roles, crafting methods, and strategies to improve their village and skills."

    • Exploration

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      "Players explore different village areas and discover new tasks and interactions."

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    • Expression

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      "Some character customization via items and upgrades, but mostly standardized presentation."

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      "Some character naming and minor customization, but mostly standardized presentation."

    • Fantasy

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      "Game simulates realistic life events and scenarios, with limited fantasy elements."

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      "Game simulates realistic human life cycles and survival rather than fantasy or improbable events."

    • Fellowship

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      5

      "Strong themes of family, friendship, and community foster a sense of belonging and connection."

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      "Strong sense of community and belonging through family and village relationships."

    • Growth

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      "Players learn survival skills, map knowledge, crafting, and resource management through experience and progression."

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      "Players learn complex crafting, survival skills, and social cooperation over many lives."

    • Health

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      "Primarily sedentary gameplay with no physical activity or health benefits."

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      "Primarily sedentary gameplay with no physical activity or health benefits."

    • Idle

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      -4

      "Requires continuous attention and active engagement in combat, crafting, and survival."

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      "Requires continuous attention and active engagement due to survival and crafting demands."

    • Intimacy

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      4

      "Players develop close relationships and emotional bonds through social interaction and shared experiences."

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      "Players form close emotional bonds through family roles and shared experiences."

    • Leadership

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      3

      "Player acts as leader managing town and villagers, assigning roles and making decisions."

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      "Some players take on leadership roles guiding others and managing village tasks."

    • Progression

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      "Players accumulate items, upgrades, and develop villages over time"

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      "Players accumulate items, skills, and upgrades to improve their village and family legacy."

    • Relaxation

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      "Emotional intensity and suspense present; some moments of flow but also tension and distress."

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      "Some moments of flow and calm, but also emotional tension and challenge."

    • Sensation

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      "Minimal sensory stimulation beyond text, music, and simple visuals; emotional engagement is primary"

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      "Basic sensory input with modest visual and auditory stimuli; emotional engagement is stronger."

    • Status

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      -3

      "Limited social recognition; achievements are mostly personal rather than publicly ranked."

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      "Achievements are mostly personal and community-based rather than socially recognized or ranked."

    • Story

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      "Strong narrative immersion with emotional story about family, loss, and healing."

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      "Strong narrative immersion through emergent stories of life, death, and family."

    • Strategy

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      "Requires planning, resource management, and problem solving to survive and progress"

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    • Thrill

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      "Tension and risk from survival threats and potential catastrophic failures create suspense and excitement."

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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      "Focus is on constructive creation and collaboration rather than combat or destruction."

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fantasy.

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    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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