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Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Extensive character customization and identity options
  • Inclusive and diverse lgbtq+ representation
  • Heartwarming, wholesome, and emotional storytelling
  • High replayability with meaningful choices
  • Affordable dlc adding valuable content

Things to keep in mind

  • Some artwork inconsistencies noted
  • Limited explicit romantic content
  • Slow pace may not appeal to all players
  • Lack of complex gameplay mechanics
  • Story still in progress with some dlcs pending

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 千面 Melancholy Love

  • Katawa Shoujo

  • Life After Magic

  • Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

  • Angel Wings

  • //TODO: today

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Our Life: Beginnings & Always but with less of a community feel

  • 他人世界末 On-looker

  • Making*Lovers

  • NUKITASHI 2

  • Tailor Tales

  • Sabbat of the Witch

  • Hold Me Tight All Night, Onii-chan!

More fantastical

Games that feels like Our Life: Beginnings & Always but with more imaginative fiction

  • DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation

  • When The Night Comes

  • The Symbiant

  • Hamidashi Creative

  • I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator

  • Heart Fragment

Less expressive

Games that feels like Our Life: Beginnings & Always but with less self-expression and customization

  • Please Be Happy

  • AIR

  • Moe Era

  • Epiphyllum in Love

  • Kanon

  • CLANNAD

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Our Life: Beginnings & Always: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026