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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.

Release DateNov 16, 2020
PriceFree
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)99.5% (very positive) Top 1% / 98.9%  Top 1%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)91.2% Top 2% / 95.9%  Top 1%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)381  Top 20% / 10.6K  Top 3%
Curators54 reviews  Top 15%
Median Play Time37.3 hours  Top 3%
Followers19.9K  Top 5%
Owners± 263.3K  Top 10%
Copies Sold± 146.6K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 1.9M  Top 10%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Our Life: Beginnings & Always steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows Our Life: Beginnings & Always's Steam rating and reviews from November 2020 to December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 98.5% (November 2020) and 99% (May 2022), with only very small variations.

With 10.6K reviews Top 3%, Our Life: Beginnings & Always is an undeniable major AAA level success. The chart looks like a long tail distribution, which sometimes means that the marketing was concentrated on the game launch and then stopped, and that no major update or discounts followed.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Our Life: Beginnings & Always and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows Our Life: Beginnings & Always's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (87%), followed by Portuguese - Brazil (3%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 27 languages represented. The game has only one translation (English), it could have been more popular if it was translated in more languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying Our Life: Beginnings & Always percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Our Life: Beginnings & Always, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. The time played is great, reaching 97 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 11 times lower than the positive reviews median play time.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Customization options for characters
  • Well-written story
  • Impactful choices
  • Replayable scenarios
  • Memorable moments
  • Nostalgic and relatable
  • Depth of relationship with Cove
  • Continual updates
  • Plentiful interactions
  • Free-to-play
  • Lonely feelings
  • Emotionally impactful

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's 99.5% rating  Top 1% should be factored in during their evaluation.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Our Life: Beginnings & Always's review data provided by Steam. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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