Choose Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Choose Our Life: Beginnings & Always if you want a Free To Play and Casual experience. 11,334 Steam reviews back the pick.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always vs Emberfate: Tempest of Elements
Our Life: Beginnings & Always and Emberfate: Tempest of Elements both land in Indie on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both are Indie games on Steam. Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) is 3 years older than Emberfate: Tempest of Elements (2023). Both sit near 99% positive on Steam (Our Life: Beginnings & Always: 11,334 reviews, Emberfate: Tempest of Elements: 114). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Emberfate: Tempest of Elements
Choose Emberfate: Tempest of Elements if it's the newer release (2023) and ships with the modern feature baseline. Emberfate: Tempest of Elements launched in 2023.
Both Our Life: Beginnings & Always and Emberfate: Tempest of Elements sit in Indie on Steam, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Steam reviews are nearly tied (99% vs 99.1% positive), so genre fit is the cleanest tiebreaker — scroll the table for the feature-by-feature view.
Side-by-side comparison
 Our Life: Beginnings & Always |  Emberfate: Tempest of Elements | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2020 | 2023 |
| Genres | Indie, Free To Play, Casual | Indie |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Steam Deck | Deck Unsupported | Unrated |
| Price | Free to play | Free to play |
| Steam reviews | 99% positive (11,334 reviews) | 99.1% positive (114 reviews) |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Single-player only |
| Developers | GB Patch Games | Wind Chimes Games Limited |
Side by side
- Both are Indie games on Steam.
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) is 3 years older than Emberfate: Tempest of Elements (2023).
- Both sit near 99% positive on Steam (Our Life: Beginnings & Always: 11,334 reviews, Emberfate: Tempest of Elements: 114).
- Both are free to play.
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always is Deck Unsupported on Steam Deck; Emberfate: Tempest of Elements has no Deck rating yet.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always vs Emberfate: Tempest of Elements — FAQ
- Which is better, Our Life: Beginnings & Always or Emberfate: Tempest of Elements?
- On Steam reviews the two are nearly tied: Our Life: Beginnings & Always sits at 99% positive (11,334 reviews), Emberfate: Tempest of Elements at 99.1% (114). The choice usually comes down to genre fit and the platform features each one supports — see the comparison table above.
- Should I play Our Life: Beginnings & Always or Emberfate: Tempest of Elements first?
- If you want chronology, Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) came out before Emberfate: Tempest of Elements (2023). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are Our Life: Beginnings & Always and Emberfate: Tempest of Elements similar?
- They overlap on Indie on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.