Two Hours One Life
2018
- point-and-click
- adventure
- indie
- survival
- sandbox
- open world
- multiplayer
- massively multiplayer online (mmo)
The story
A fork of One Hour One Life that explores less restrictive settings and gives players significantly more liberty to explore the world, its unique mechanics and large collection of craftable items and objects. The private aspect, regarded as undesirable and futile on the original production, is also considerably more pronounced in this diversion. The game management team maintain a Discord community in which they themselves are active members, causing a good portion of the game to also be shaped by the community. That is more evident on the extensive use of graphic content based on art created by members of the community and submitted for use in the game. A source code repository is also maintained on Github and on several occasions code submitted by users were accepted and later implemented into the game.
What it’s like
Flat, hand-drawn sprites drift across grassy top-down maps in muted greens and earth browns, while hammer strikes, crackling campfires and birdsong fill the quiet gaps. Days move slowly. The rhythm is one of gathering, crafting and tending a small settlement, with long calm stretches broken by sudden loss when a character dies and a new life begins elsewhere. The vibe is patient, earnest and faintly melancholy, well suited to slow evenings, background play with a podcast, or solitary sessions planning builds in a notebook. Intensity is mixed. The core world is low-key, with occasional fights, hunger and deaths that land quickly and without gore, but community-submitted art has pushed parts of the game into graphic and sexual imagery, so it is not gentle throughout. It is for players who enjoy deep crafting, emergent social play and the open-source, Linux-and-PC tinkering culture behind it, and who don't mind a scrappy, unpolished charm.
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