Choose Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Choose Our Life: Beginnings & Always if you want a Free To Play experience. On Steam, it's free to play, so the barrier to trying it is zero. 11,334 Steam reviews back the pick.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always vs Merry Crisis
Our Life: Beginnings & Always and Merry Crisis both land in Indie, Casual 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 share Indie, Casual on Steam. Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) is 6 years older than Merry Crisis (2026). Our Life: Beginnings & Always is free; Merry Crisis is paid (Price unknown). 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 Merry Crisis
Choose Merry Crisis if you want the Color Alternatives, Camera Comfort, and Custom Volume Controls side of the pairing. On Steam, it's the newer release (2026) and ships with the modern feature baseline. Merry Crisis launched in 2026.
Both Our Life: Beginnings & Always and Merry Crisis sit in Indie and Casual on Steam, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 Our Life: Beginnings & Always |  Merry Crisis | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2020 | 2026 |
| Genres | Indie, Free To Play, Casual | Indie, Casual |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Steam Deck | Deck Unsupported | Unrated |
| Price | Free to play | Price unknown |
| Steam reviews | 99% positive (11,334 reviews) | — |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Single-player only |
| Developers | GB Patch Games | Monsoon Games |
Side by side
- Both share Indie, Casual on Steam.
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) is 6 years older than Merry Crisis (2026).
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always is free; Merry Crisis is paid (Price unknown).
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always is Deck Unsupported on Steam Deck; Merry Crisis has no Deck rating yet.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always vs Merry Crisis — FAQ
- Should I play Our Life: Beginnings & Always or Merry Crisis first?
- If you want chronology, Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) came out before Merry Crisis (2026). 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 Merry Crisis similar?
- They overlap on Indie, Casual 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.
- Is Our Life: Beginnings & Always free?
- Yes — Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a free-to-play Steam title. Merry Crisis is paid (Price unknown).