Our Life: Beginnings & Always
BANGER · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 99% of 13,823
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Short indie
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.7h
- To 100%
- 27.3h 3.1x the story
- Finish
- 34% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 22
Players and genre
- Online
- 88 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 34% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is the best reviewed of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Lake ($7.99, scores 65) and Left on Read (free, scores 55) both come in lower.
It is still busy. 88 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 07:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18.
8.7 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Our Life: Beginnings & Always scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1129190/our-life-beginnings-alwaysReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 15. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.