Our Life is a Visual Novel series created by GB Patch. Each installment depicts a customizable main character at various moments in their life, separated into different "Steps". From childhood, to teenaged, to adulthood, how they choose to interact with the people in their lives will affect not only their own growth, but how the other people in their lives develop as well (primarily their neighbor(s), who are also the primary love interest(s)).
This series has no connection with the similarly-named Days of Our Lives.
The series consists of:
- Our Life: Beginnings & Always: Itch.io page
. Set in a town by the seaside, this installment depicts four different summers. The primary love interest of Beginnings & Always is your male neighbor Cove. - Our Life: Now & Forever: Itch.io page. Set in a town in the mountains, this installment depicts four different autumns. Now & Forever focuses on two neighbors: the female Tamarack, and the genderfluid Qiu.
Our Tropes: Examples & Descriptions
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: It's possible to play yourself/the protagonists this way; the player can choose to identify as a "he", "she", or "they", with a developer's update for Now & Forever stating that it will let you add custom pronouns should you identify differently.
- Childhood Friends:
- Depending on the player's choice:
- The MC and Cove can be friends since childhood. Eventually, it's also possible for their relationship to turn romantic as time passes.
- The MC can be friends since Step 1 with Qiu, Tamarack, Renee, and/or Baxter. They can also choose to enter a romantic relationship with Qiu and/or Tamarack in later Steps.
- Qiu also already has an established friend group with Renee and Baxter at the start of the game, having known Renee since they were young and knowing Baxter for two years prior.
- Depending on the player's choice:
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The MC's first and last name can be changed upon character creation, and their first name can even be changed between "steps." Beginnings & Always has a free voiced name DLC where there's hundreds of names that love interest Cove could say in voiced lines.
- Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: The deuteragonists in the series tend to be your neighbors, who grow up to be the primary love interests. However, it's still possible to just be friends with them and pursue someone else.
- The 'Verse:
- Beginnings & Always shows that the series is set in the same universe as GB Patch's previous work, XOXO Droplets, by having two characters from the latter (Shiloh and Jeremy) make appearances in the former.
- Now & Forever also has Pran from the same game appear. It also features Baxter from Beginnings & Always.
