One Hour One Life

I discovered this game ~2021,, long after the developer had already stopped adding content. Honestly, I was fine without new content because a game life goes quickly and there's only so much you can get done. But my main issue has always been the lack of moderation in the game. (There are a few bad apples who crave attention by griefing in-game, so I'm not about to give them any here). While the developer has made some improvements in deterring some of the griefing in-game, it's hard to fully contain it. This is why we've been BEGGING for moderators in the game. Unfortunately, the developer has no interest in moderating the game, and refuses to give moderation power to anyone else. His logc? The hypothetical scenario where a moderator or team of moderators (that's chosen by him based on years of established trust in the community) might go rogue and become the biggest griefer of them all. When we complain about the griefing, he says we're being too sensitive. When we complain about anything he's doing, eg: defending the griefers, he says we're being ungrateful and he starts banning people from his discord server. I mean... the irony of saying we need thicker skins coming from someone who gets so upset over an iota of criticism is rich. I've been 'putting up' with the toxic, clear disdain the developer has toward his loyal player base because I truly love this game. At its best, the game is full of beautiful, heart-warming moments and I cherish all the friends I've found through this game. But he's reached new lows in the discord server. Note that the quote ascribed to him from a review posted yesterday/tody is accurate... I saw him say that in his OHOL discord server. (I heard he also got banned from discord -- likely for that comment). I have been playing this game for years, with probably close to 1000 hours (played via a mod; not tracked by steam). Based on how things have been, and continues to go -- I just can't see how this game can be enjoyable without a developer who cares. If he's not going to care about adding new content, he could at least show he cares for the player base as humans. We just want to enjoy a game without hate speech and without being killed. I wouldn't have thought that would be too much to ask for.

i do not recommend buying this game. imagine trying to build a town where everything you create is constantly destroyed. soon enough you find yourself imprisoned in the nursery, forced to watch yourself and your crying babies starve to death while hearing slurs thrown in your face. the moment you log in, you have to prepare for the next attack. the griefing goes far beyond killing and destruction. griefers engage in prolonged harassment, follow you around with weapons for hours, manipulate entire towns to mass-curse innocent players abusing an in-game anti-griefer mechanic to ban their accounts from active gameplay (for five real life years!). it has even escalated into griefers recreating n*zi regimes and threatening others into complying. players are hesitant to openly oppose them for fear of loosing accsess to the main server with their accounts ending up in an isolated in-game region called donkey town. the dev does not merely tolerate this behavior. he presents it as funny and interesting gameplay while banning players who criticize his approach. minors being exposed to prolonged verbal abuse and nsfw content is of zero concern to the dev. the official ohol discord has consequently stopped being welcoming to anyone who feels deeply disturbed and frustrated about the current state of the game. there is nothing wrong with having villains or conflict roleplay in a game. the problem is when a small group of griefers is allowed to make destruction and harassment the dominant experience. i was trying to understand the dev's perspective on free speech and unmoderated gameplay before, but it now seems clear that he wants his game to become yet another slur pvp and his discord to be a churchyard where he can receive nothing but praise, not to mention the continued doxxing of players' real-life names and email addresses... if you are looking for cooperation and community building, please check out 2hol. it is an actively developed ohol fork with lots of new content, a wonderful community, and respectful devs and mods who appreciate their players.

Do not buy this game unless you are prepared to have the developer either post your name, your email address or your phone number in his public discord server and/or call your mom. I genuinely wish i was joking but bro has 0 regards about your privacy, he even doxxed where some CHILDREN lived earlier this year and saw nothing wrong with it. He also has a penchant for causing drama and saying controversial and gross stuff then banning people the second he gets called out because his feelings got hurt. A little quote from the developer himself on Nazis in his discord server: "Also, it has been like 85 years, so it's not exactly too soon, and Nazis and Hitler are pretty damn funny.... that silly little mustache, and so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ serious and strict an German, etc. I sometimes wonder what would happen if you all saw the original 1967 film The Producers, which is widely considered to be one of the funniest films ever made..... I feel like a bunch of you would just die from outrage. So... Nazi's with big erections? I mean... I don't want it greeting people on the homepage, but everyone I showed it to laughed their asses off." - Jason Rohrer 08.08.26 The game has basically been abandoned by the dev in terms of content as well, so expect absolutely nothing from the game in that regard either. Honestly you're better off playing either 2HOL (which actually has moderation and content being made), or you are hope - i would not recommend wasting your money on the cesspit that is OHOL <3

Stay away from the game unless u want a developer that is barely adding content to the game and he finds Nazi's and Hitler funny bans everyone from his discord server that disagrees with that he even got soft banned in discord because of that statement and then he demoted all mods + made someone very shady the only mod. DO NOT BUY

It's a shame the developer has done such a bad job managing this community. He has taken something people love, and consistently made and shared horrible and disgusting decisions and opinions. I can't recommend this game to anyone anymore, the concept is good, but the actions of the Jason Rohrer aren't excusable.

The game can be fun, but the developer's behaviour has completely ruined it for me. There are some pretty serious concerns around how players' private information has allegedly been handled, including people having things like names, emails, or phone numbers exposed publicly. That's not something I think should ever happen over an argument about a game. I've also seen enough of the developer's interactions with the community to be really uncomfortable with the way criticism is handled. There have been personal attacks and comments that I'd consider hateful, and it just makes the whole community feel hostile. It's a shame because there's a genuinely interesting game underneath all of this. But I can't really recommend giving money to a developer when I have this many concerns about how they treat their players.

The game is fantastic, but the developer has crashed out. First and foremost: Jason if you want to sue me for leaving a bad review, do it. I don't care. Yes. The dev is threatening to sue everyone leaving bad reviews. Let that set the tone. He has used personal information inputed to purchase the game to contact people in real life without permission. He refuses to remove harmful features despite the community begging him to: families may have the last name "r*pe" and people will use the name and then try to roleplay harmful actions, many instances of Nazism, and people buying the game to harass others, refunding, then buying another, rinse and repeat. Certain players have threatened people with bodily harm and r*pe both in game, and via DMs on Discord. Among many, many more things that any sensible dev would shut down in their official public servers or Discord. The Discord for the game has been an absolute mess for a long time, but his opinions on "free speech" boil down to: anyone can say and post whatever they want that is harmful/hurtful to whoever they want, until he thinks you are criticizing him in even the tiniest way. He has had mods, but completely tied their hands so that they cannot moderate, until recently when he decided he wanted to ban the mods, ban positive members of the community (including long time players that have never done anything wrong, long time content creators promoting his game for years who also have done nothing wrong, etc.). After banning a lot of good people for no reason, he has also decided to *unban* everyone that had been banned for genuine reasons. People who only want to hurt other members of the community. He is showing his true colours in how little he actually cares about his community, and wants to only enable the worst sides of it to ruin everyone else's experience. It is incredibly sad to see such a beautiful concept completely torched by the dev himself.

developer has interestingly positive views on nazis