Our Life: Beginnings & Always: Free, and Long
What this page helps you decide: whether you want a long customisable story, or something you can finish this evening.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always holds 98.8% positive from 13,713 Steam reviews, the highest review percentage of any free title tracked on this site and among the highest on the whole list. It is also the free title people most often misjudge, because free tends to imply short and this one is not. The developer describes it as a near-fully customisable visual novel spanning four summers and fifteen years, in which you grow from childhood to adulthood alongside the lonely boy next door. Fifteen in-game years is a scope claim, not a marketing flourish, and it should factor into whether you install this one first. The trade-off is language: it lists a single interface language, where the other two free titles on this list offer two and eleven. It runs on windows, linux. If you read English comfortably and want the longest free option here, this is it; if you do not, it is the wrong starting point regardless of price.
Free, but the longest of the free three
The three free titles tracked here differ far more in length than in price. This one is built around a fifteen-year span and heavy customisation, which means the time cost is real even though the money cost is zero. If your reason for starting with a free title is to test whether the genre suits you at all, one of the shorter-form free options will answer that question faster.
What the store page publishes, and what it does not
Published: developer, Steam release date, price, the single interface language, the platform list, and review totals. Not published: how many endings exist, how many romance options there are, or how many hours a full run takes. The fifteen-year span is a narrative claim from the description, not a playtime figure, and this page does not convert it into one.
Step-by-Step
- Budget more than one sitting. The story spans four summers across fifteen in-game years by the developer's own description.
- Check language support before installing — this title lists English only.
- Expect customisation to be central rather than cosmetic. The store page leads with it.
- Free to download and keep, not a trial. The Steam page lists it as Free To Play.
Tips & Notes
- Highest review percentage of any free title tracked here at 98.8%, from 13,713 reviews.
- English only — the narrowest language support of the three free titles on this list.
FAQ
Is Our Life free?
Yes, its Steam store page lists it as Free To Play, checked 2026-08-27. That means free to download and keep rather than a timed trial.
How long is Our Life?
The store page does not publish a playtime figure. What it does say is that the story spans four summers across fifteen in-game years, which is a scope description rather than an hour count.
Does Our Life support languages other than English?
No. Its Steam page lists a single interface language, unlike the other two free titles tracked here.
Sources
- Official Our Life: Beginnings & Always on Steam (official store page) — Source for the premise, developer, Steam release date, price, review counts, review percentage, language list and platform list quoted on this page. Read 2026-08-27.