Our Life: Beginnings & Always — patch notes and updates
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| Our Life Ocean Hoodie Available Now! | 2025-11-21 | Hooray! The first Our Life apparel merch is live! I think it's really nice 🥰️.You can pre-order it now from Makeship. They've got Black Friday sales coming soon where fans get a 10% discount on all products and free shipping on orders over $100! But if you sigh up for the Makeship newsletter today (the 21st), you will get early access to the discount.The hoodie can only be produced if it reaches 300 pre-orders. If that happens, the hoodie will be put into production and will ship out next year.The Hoodie comes in XS to 3XL and ships worldwide. You can see all the info on the store page!Our Life Ocean Hoodie Page |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - Artbook Launch! | 2024-07-26 | 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 Storyteller’s Festival 2024 Is Live! | 2024-01-29 | The Our Life games are included in this year's The Storyteller’s 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 Storyteller’s Festival 2024 |
| Cove Step 1 Plushie Now Available for Limited Time! | 2023-11-24 | 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 😌 |
| Our Life: Argentina and Turkey Currency Update | 2023-10-31 | 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! |
| Our Life: Beginnings & Always - The Last Major Update | 2023-06-23 | 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 p |
| Our Life: BAXTER'S DLC IS OUT! 🥂✨ | 2023-05-19 | 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 |
| Our Life: Baxter DLC Release Date | 2023-05-01 | 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! |
| Our Life 1.6.1 | 2022-10-06 | 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 upd |
| Derek DLC Launch! 🎉 | 2022-09-29 | 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 S |
| Our Life: DEREK DLC RELEASE DATE! | 2022-09-25 | 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 |
| Our Life: Derek DLC Coming Soon Page! | 2022-08-05 | 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 |
| Our Life Version 1.5.4 | 2022-05-22 | 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 Plushie Now Available (Limited Time Only)! | 2022-04-29 | 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. Cove’s grown up and is ready to move from Sunset Bird right to your house. Though, he’ll 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 ☀ |
| Our Life: Version 1.5.3 | 2022-04-01 | 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! |
| Our Life: Cove Wedding DLC Launch! 💖 | 2022-02-07 | 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 -Inc |
| Wedding DLC Release Date & Plushie Poll! | 2022-02-01 | 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 sp |
| Our Life: Happy Anniversary!!! 🎉 | 2021-11-16 | 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 experien |
| Our Life 1.4.1 Patch! | 2021-09-26 | We’ve 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 you’re still running into issues, let us know! |
| Our Life Step 4 is out now! 🎉🎉🎉 | 2021-09-18 | 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. It’s free to play with optional DLCs that are on sale during Step 4’s 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, |