Today the artbook for Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched! It's 10% off for the first full week. This is the last piece of extra content we'll release for the game . Thank you for everything, Sunset Bird. Artbook Steam Page

The Our Life games are included in this year's The Storytellers Festival on Steam! If you haven't wishlisted Our Life: Now & Forever or there's still Our Life: Beginnings & Always DLCs you want to save for later, please feel free to visit their Steam pages. But this is also a great opportunity to find other story based games you don't know yet. Here's a link to the overall collection- The Storytellers Festival 2024

Yes, Cove James Holden is once again available in plushie form! Though this time he's eight-years-old and has some nifty extra features. He comes with a detachable firefly ball that actually glows, and his iconic pink cast does too. Cove GITD Plush on Makeship It can be purchased only between now and Friday, December 14th 12:00pm ET. For an even more limited time it's at a discounted price. The plushie does ship internationally! Get your own silly little beach baby today. If you can and want to

Hello! Steam is updating how currencies are handled for Argentina and Turkey and Our Life: Beginnings & Always prices were updated to support that. We've changed the prices for the Argentina Peso and Turkish Lira, and added prices for the new LATAM-USD region and MENA-USD region. I'm not sure if it will show immediately or if it will take time to fully roll out on Steam, but I do want players to be aware of what's going on. Thank you for the support!

Today Our Life version 1.7.1 went live! It fixed the errors reported for Baxter's DLC and added a handful of improvements throughout the entire game. If there are any updates beyond this, they will only be to make minor typo fixes. Our Life has reached a definitive state of completion after almost three years! Thank you all once more for the kind messages and feedback over the dozens of months of development. It was an incredible experience. And though Our Life: Beginnings & Always won't get further DLCs, GB Patch Games will still be around to make new stories! We hope to see you around again sometime. And to celebrate finally reaching this point, we had one last promo image made

Enjoy exciting summer days in the company of Baxter Ward during Steps 3 and 4! From May 19th to the morning of May 26th, the Baxter DLC is 10% off! The older DLCs and the soundtrack have discounts ranging from 20% to 25%. Baxter DLC Page FEATURES:

• Unlocks 5 Step 3 Moments: Sightseeing, Hang, Drinks, Mountain, & Planning
• Unlocks an entirely new storyline in Step 4
• Allows you to form a deeper relationship with Baxter Ward (platonic or romantic) and spend time more with your friends
• Includes new character sprite art, background locations, and CG images
• Provides even more options for adding custom qualities to your character. Is your protagonist a good dancer or do they have two left feet?
• Unlocks bonus scenes in the other Step 3 Moments where what happened in these events is referenced and reflected on
• Increases the overall playtime by multiple hours

[The gorgeous guest art piece is by ryuuieu Twitter] Yes, there it is. We officially have a release date for the most dramatic man's story and the final DLC for Our Life: Beginnings & Always. May 19th, 2023. We appreciate all the patience for this news. There's a coming soon page HERE!

Hello! Thank you to everyone who has played the Derek DLC, and thank you for the feedback on it, too. We've released a patch to solve some problems people were having. Mainly, there were issues if you loaded an older save in the middle of Step 2 and did the Derek events. And sometimes Soiree wouldn't count as completed for the Derek DLC even when you did the event, so Derek's version of Step 4 couldn't unlock. There were also small typos/visual errors that were fixed up along the way. One occasional issue that's more personal device based is that sometimes the Derek DLC, or any other DLC, installs but the main game doesn't register recent updates. We've now added in a pop-up to let players know if they end up in a situation where their DLCs are current but the base of Our Life is out-dated. DLCs can only work properly if the core of the game has all of its new changes/additions as well. If there's anything we missed, just let us know! *Edit Some save files had problems with the latest update but we released a quick fix so they should all be compatible now.

Derek's Story is out now . Spend wonderful summer days in the company of Derek Suarez during Steps 2 and 4! This is an optional paid DLC for the free game Our Life: Beginnings & Always. I appreciate how patiently people have waited for this expansion. It's been great to finally let Derek have his time to shine, and I really hope everyone loves him, and his lovely family too! For the launch week, the Derek DLC is 10% off! And all the older DLCs are at a 20% discount, too. Plus, the base game and all the DLCs, other than the voiced name DLC, were also updated with fixes/Derek related alterations. If you have the game already, please let Steam update those files. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2015100/Our_Life_Beginnings__Always__Dereks_Story/] Derek DLC Page! FEATURES: -Unlocks 5 Step 2 Moments: Responsible, Lemonade, Soiree (Derek's Version), Siblings, & Boardwalk -Unlocks an entirely new storyline in Step 4 -Allows you to form a deeper relationship with Derek Suarez (platonic or romantic) and get to know his family -Includes new character sprite art, background locations, and CG images -Provides even more options for adding custom qualities to your character. Is your protagonist good with kids or is that way too much of a hassle? -Unlocks bonus scenes in the other Step 2 Moments, and in Step 3 Moments where what happened in these events is referenced and reflected on -Increases the overall playtime by multiple hours

Derek's DLC is launching on September 29th, 2022 . We've fixed up the beta bug reports, added finishing touches, and are finally ready to share Derek's story with everybody. He is a great guy and I hope people will love getting to spend more time together, with Derek and his family. His story can be played as a romance or as a close friendship. It will go live pretty early in the morning based on Pacific Standard Time. Thank you for all the patience with this DLC! Derek DLC Page

The Derek DLC now has a public coming soon page! You can wishlist it ahead of the launch. And we'll be able to announce an actual release date pretty soon, too Derek DLC Page

Hey everyone! We've got another small bug fixing patch today. It corrected some additional typos and such, but the main fix was to resolve an error pop up that appeared when calling Derek in the Step 2 Moment "Soiree". Thanks for the reports!

Cove James Holden from Our Life: Beginnings & Always is now available as a plush for a limited time only! The design featured is his Step 3 young adult stage. Coves grown up and is ready to move from Sunset Bird right to your house. Though, hell come through the door this time instead of the window. It'll only be on sale for 21 days and after that this Step 3 Cove plushie won't be available again. Thank you to everyone who gets the little ocean guy!! Cove Plushie Campaign Page

We've released a new bug patch for Our Life: Beginnings & Always. It removed the issue with the Jeremy sprite staying on screen too long in the Wedding DLC, a couple cases where characters would recall events that didn't happen in your version of the story or did happen but in a different way, as well as fixing various typos. Thank you for the reports!

Congratulations on your wedding, everyone ! This DLC is in the running for the longest expansion word-count-wise, added way more new art assets than prior DLCs, and is very alteration heavy with tons of ways to impact the script. We went pretty all out, haha. I hope you have a nice time during this special moment in your Our Life story. Features: -Begin the experience by planning each element of your wedding: selecting the venues, deciding on traditions to include or exclude, picking out your clothes, and so on -End the novel by playing through your crafted wedding day -Includes new character sprite art, background locations, and more -Increases the overall playtime by multiple hours There's a little discount during launch week (the other DLCs are also on sale). Sale ends on February 14th! Plus, if you download the Voice Name DLC, you'll finally be able to hear Step 4 Cove say your name chosen off the voiced name screen! It's really sweet. We've also released an update to all the prior DLCs and the base game to fix/improve the builds. If you don't have automatic updates on you may want to check to see if you've got the latest version. It's 1.5! A lot has come together for this release, it's been great to really make it happen. And this is the final major DLC we had in the original plans for our beloved Cove Holden. I can't believe it. Maybe somehow, someday he'll be back, but no matter what you'll be able to relive the lovely moments we have with him now. As always, thank you for playing

It's official, the Wedding DLC is done and we're creating the build to launch! But there were also other things that came together around this time that we'll be releasing as well. So, here's everything that'll be available on February 7th- The Cove Wedding DLC itself The voiced lines for Step 4 Cove saying the name options on the Voiced Name Screen, in both the base game and the wedding DLC Fixes for some of the lingering errors in the main game, including the problem Linux users have had getting the game to launch Updates to how the DLCs are managed/implemented to make it better overall Along with that wonderful news, there's another special thing happening. You see, just in case it becomes relevant, I was wondering what kind of Cove plushie people might be interested in getting for themselves if those were to exist. For the next few days we'll be running a poll on Twitter where you can let me know if you'd prefer a child, teen, young adult, or fully grown Cove companion in your real life. You can vote in the plushie poll on Twitter HERE!

It's really been a full year since Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched. I've had a long time to write a message for this occasion, but I'm doing it not many hours before it has to go up, aha. I could never figure out exactly what to say. A lot of Our Life itself came about the same way. I had things I knew I wanted to express and it was hard to know how, so I just started writing what I could and would see what happened. When developing the project, I wasn't confident that Our Life would mean what it did for me to anyone else. But over this past year the story reached so many more people than I ever would've thought, and it was an experience that meant something to a lot them. Me and everyone on the team were able to make our players feel welcomed, reassure them when they were worried, calm them when they were stressed, and cheer them up when they were sad. The kind messages, thoughtful feedback, and lovely fanworks that have been sent are more than I could've asked for. I'll always appreciate that we were given the support to release Our Life on a scale that let the concept of growing up together and being yourself shine the way I hoped it would. Thank you to everyone who gave it a chance. Our Life wouldn't be what it is without its players and I'm so glad for that. And thanks Cove, for being such a great guy to send out the message that people are valuable just for being who they are. But of course, it's not over yet! There are still the extra DLC scenes coming, and the voiced name collection for Step 4 is being compiled for release soon. We'll keep doing our best here at GB Patch for as many more years as we can The wonderful art is by Sakuradonuts on Twitter!

Weve released a bug fix patch for Step 4 of Our Life! These are the patch notes: The errors on the character/Cove creation screens are gone The game skipping to the wrong Step is resolved Part of the ending CG not being able to appear for some MCs was fixed Some typo/continuity errors in the script were updated A few wrongly set flags were switched And other miscellaneous small tweaks Older save files might not work this this updated build. If you already have the game, it should update automatically. Thank you very much for all of the feedback. If youre still running into issues, let us know!

You can finally continue your story after the credit sequence with a final five-year time-skip. Return to Sunset Bird once more for a heartwarming epilogue. Our Life: Beginnings & Always is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door. Its free to play with optional DLCs that are on sale during Step 4s launch week! If you already have the game, it should update automatically on Steam. However, we did have a little hold-up where we had to do a series of updates to get everything working. If you're having trouble getting the game to load or DLC events to start, please try uninstalling and reinstalling the game to make sure the multiple updates that happened get registered. Thank you so much for all of the patience! We hope itll be worth the wait

There's a problem we're having with the Steam build where instead of loading the new update, it tries to launch an "EmptySteamDepot". I don't know why. It's not something we've experienced before. Perhaps we missed some kind of change to the install process and now what we've normally done doesn't work any longer. We're going to work on fixing it, but I'm afraid for now the update isn't running. We'll do our best to figure it out before the end of the day! I'm really sorry for the delay. EDIT! We fixed it. There was just out-dating in our game engine that I hadn't released was not updated.