Games like Our Life: Beginnings & Always
If Our Life: Beginnings & Always is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Date with Death, To Find A Home and Emberfate: Tempest of Elements — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy heartwarming atmosphere, cozy and emotional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a free-to-play visual novel released in 2020 by GB Patch Games. Set across childhood to adulthood, the game tasks players with shaping their custom protagonist's identity and life path alongside a longtime neighbor through choice-driven narrative and relationship-building. Reviewers highlight the romance routes as organic and inclusive, and players describe the experience as cozy, emotional, nostalgic, and whimsical. The base game supports substantial character customization, while DLC expansions add meaningful depth and replay value according to players. The game holds a 99% positive rating from over 11,000 Steam reviews.
About Our Life: Beginnings & Always: 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.
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A Date with Death
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Shares relationship building, character customization and an emotional mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Top pick for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
To Find A Home
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Second-strongest match for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? Sharing a haunted house with a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost and a fellow witch with a same problem.
Emberfate: Tempest of Elements
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Third-strongest match for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel. You are the leader of a raiding guild in the world's hottest MMORPG, Emberfate. Will you lead your guild to success in the newest raid — and perhaps find love along the way among your guildmates?
Sweet Valentine Chocolatier
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Ranked #4 for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
A cozy, heartwarming visual novel in which you take a familiar face (boy or girl) on a romantic spring festival date. Customize your player character (femme or masc) and play several low-stakes mini games!
Reanimation Scheme
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Ranked #5 for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
An otome game and romance visual novel. Step into the shoes of the necromancer, Raenelle. Meet a colorful cast of characters, fail to summon the spirits of the dead, unravel mysteries, and maybe — just maybe — fall in love.
Northanger Abbey
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Ranked #6 for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
Zip Up
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Ranked #7 for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
As a stylist working for Hollywood's biggest celebrities, dress up your troublesome clients for their showbiz events and somehow manage a romance with a celebrity in this story-driven dress up game inspired by reality TV & Hollywood culture
Deathwish Bloom
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Ranked #8 for Our Life: Beginnings & Always fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel set in a quake post-apocalypse, play as Sky, an impostor scientist racing to recreate a cure only she knows existed. Weave or snap ever-shifting bonds with characters whose harboured obsessions can end your pursuit, just as you can theirs. Unless...
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Dark Arcana: The Carnival
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Reviewers of Our Life: Beginnings & Always cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors.
Undertale
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Shares an emotional mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Reviewers of Our Life: Beginnings & Always cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Stardew Valley
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Shares a cozy mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Reviewers of Our Life: Beginnings & Always cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
The Sims™ 4
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Reviewers of Our Life: Beginnings & Always cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Free To Play and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Persona 5 Royal
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Reviewers of Our Life: Beginnings & Always cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
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More from GB Patch Games
Other recommendable Steam games by GB Patch Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
A Foretold Affair
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Another title from GB Patch Games, the studio behind Our Life: Beginnings & Always. Shares Indie and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
As a future seer, you know exactly who you're going to spend the rest of your life with. Unfortunately, it seems convincing them on that matter might not be so simple. Come to enjoy the journey in this amusing, exciting, and touching Visual Novel.
XOXO Droplets
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Another title from GB Patch Games, the studio behind Our Life: Beginnings & Always. Shares Indie and Casual with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
An otome dating sim about a humorously jerky young lady and her mission to woo one of multiple uniquely, but equally, obnoxious guys.
XOXO Blood Droplets
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
Another title from GB Patch Games, the studio behind Our Life: Beginnings & Always. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
A collection of very short stories. XOXO Blood Droplets is an absurd, dark comedy, twisted romance Visual Novel about terrible things happening to terrible people. The fun comes not from avoiding the potential horrors, but by seeing just how many ways things can go wrong.
Lake of Voices
WHY THIS
Another title from GB Patch Games, the studio behind Our Life: Beginnings & Always. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Our Life: Beginnings & Always.
A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
Frequently asked about Our Life: Beginnings & Always
- Does Our Life: Beginnings & Always work on Steam Deck?
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Is Our Life: Beginnings & Always free to play?
- Yes — Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Our Life: Beginnings & Always?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Our Life: Beginnings & Always are A Date with Death, To Find A Home, Emberfate: Tempest of Elements.
- Who developed Our Life: Beginnings & Always?
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always was developed by GB Patch Games.
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