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You are Hope

Survive & Rebuild Civilization

Ratings

Age

9+

Category

Roleplaying

Languages

English

You Are Hope is a cooperative survival game based on the concept of 'One Hour One Life.' Players live a single life from birth to age 60, with each real-time minute representing a year. Starting with nothing, you must work with other players to build fires, farm food, and develop tools. Your survival depends on the care of your parents, and the future of your civilization depends on how well you prepare the world for your children.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

94/100

You Are Hope is a profound and often emotional social experiment. Based on 'One Hour One Life,' it tasks you with rebuilding civilization one 60-minute life at a time. Every minute you play is a year of your life, and the most critical thing you can do is help the next generation. Whether you are born into a thriving city or a desperate wilderness settlement, your contribution—be it farming, smithing, or just naming your children—matters.

The game thrives on cooperation. You quickly realize that you can't survive alone; you need a mother to feed you as a baby, and you need children to carry on your work after you die at 60. The sense of legacy is what makes this special. Seeing a road you built or a farm you started still being used by your great-grandchildren (real players) is a unique gaming high. It’s a beautiful, sometimes heartbreaking cycle of life that emphasizes community over individual achievement.

Dinsun reviewed on: Thu Mar 23 2023

Features

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Real-time cooperative survival

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Generational legacy system

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Massive crafting and tech tree

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Persistent family trees to track descendants

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Shared, evolving game world

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Your life ends, but the items you built and the children you raised remain. You can then view your family tree to see how your descendants continue to thrive in the world you helped build.

Ratings & Reviews

1 hour 1 life
Tue Jan 08 2019 $inthemoney$

This is a game that many are on the fence about getting. I saw the pc version and gave this a try. Well worth the measly $5. However I will say I wish you could come back as a relative if your own to continue progress when you die. The game does seem to lose its touch without being able to further progress after a while. One a happier note, Being so simple it is surprisingly addictive this game is one of the best not only on mobile but in general. To attempt to live and create a meaningful contribution to your offspring and build off of the legacy your parents lay out for you is an amazing and different idea and actually difficult to accomplish at times. 4/5 stars only because you have no way to continue your achievements.

Great potential, low player count
Wed Jan 23 2019 Rest Ez Fv

This is honestly the best mobile game I’ve ever played. Especially if are trying to kill an hour or so. The only drawback I could see is that it is a complicated game and much too complicated to get the full experience on mobile. The PC version(20$), which is the same version as the mobile, has much more to offer. I believe this mainly has to do with the player count. That’s not to say I haven’t spawned in some cool cities on mobile. I have, but they are always so much further behind than the mega cities on PC. The best lives I’ve had on mobile I’ve been an Eve or generation 2-3, developed something decent and died, only to never spawn there again. This, I attribute to the lack of player base, because the locations and places around the villages where sustainable long term. I have even lived full lives as a female with only having 1-2 sons. And even had 0 children before. But in summary this game is great no matter the platform. TLDR: Being an eve or a daughter/son of one is a very fun and rewarding experience(usually). This will happen far more often on mobile due to lower server populations. Buy the game and fix that problem. Or just play the PC version. But seriously get both. This game rocks.

Buy the Desktop version
Tue Dec 04 2018 chrisj17272772

This is a phenomenal game, so phenomenal that you will quickly want to buy the desktop version, which is 20$. Me and 2 of my friends did just that and now this feels like a waste of 5$. The full game is definitely worth 25$ but still. There are no content differences between mobile and desktop but as good as the controls on here are they can never compare to the ease of a mouse, also the desktop version has a larger player base so you can be a part of more advanced civilizations more often, AND afaik you can only spawn with your friends on the desktop version with twin and triplet codes. Actual review: beautiful graphics, infinitely replayable, steep learning curve because of how deep the crafting system is, a coop dynamic like I’ve never experienced before - you really need to rely on others and they rely on you to survive and thrive really different than any multiplayer game I’ve ever played. It’s very fun and I highly recommend it. This game could be described like a less-casual Minecraft with a much deeper multiplayer coop aspect.

Great Game, Worth the $5
Sun Dec 02 2018 Gerath

I’ve been playing this game nonstop for the past 24 hours and have had an absolute blast of a time. As with all games there will be a draw back and that would have to be in how small of taps you need to make in order to craft, it does take some time to get the hang of. Tapping that 5 pixel seed on the ground with our chubby gamer man fingers. But if you can push past that then I find this game amazing. It writes its own stories, it builds its own drama and from a 2D indie game into a Tragedy Story telling game that will connect with you on a personal level in almost every life. Only other complaint I have is that I didn’t know how to get the hand cart out of my hand and ended up starving to death cause I couldn’t eat berries with it in my hand. Anyway 10/10 game. Worth more

Please read!
Sun May 17 2020 776688923416

So this game is really good, and I don’t feel like I wasted four dollars on it. But there is one thing I think is really messed up: You can kill your family?!! Even in primal times you didn’t kill your family because you need them to survive. And this game is 9+. It is kinda scarring, you raise a baby, the baby grows up, kills you, and just walks away?!? You should put a curse on people who kill their family, like an invincible bear that follows them, you know? Or just automatically ban them. Please listen to my suggestions and thanks for reading! Edit:I keep checking updates, but can’t tell if it was fixed. Another edit:Thanks you so much!!!! I checked the forums and saw that you added a system.

Your time matters.
Sat Mar 02 2019 SylarUchiha

One hour is a life, one life is an hour. Great dreams you have, little time you got. Time is an illusion, an illusion is made with time. Just remember this: You only have one hour, one life. This unofficial version of the game make my free time so enjoyable. While I’m in the road, or at my launch break, I can enjoy the joy of playing a really good mobile adaptation of my favorite PC game (One Hour One Life by Jason Rohrer). While im outside my home, I enjoy long hours of mobile game play; and when I finally get home, I jump into the grate community of One Hour One Life. While the original (Pc version) is way superior in the user interface (mouse and key board). The Unofficial mobile version, give me the joy of playing anywhere. Thank to the developers for providing me this fun experience of playing anywhere... I personally have bought this game 4 times already. 2 times the original version, on the PC. And 2 times this unofficial IOS version. I really recommend everyone to just don’t try this unofficial mobile version. I recommend everyone to try the original as well. Thank to the IOS developers. Thank to Jason Rohrer for creating this game in the first place...

Awesome!
Tue Dec 01 2020 DLightness

I’m so happy you were able to adapt this to mobile. This game is so fun to play, especially being able to watch my family carry on once I’ve died. I think it would be neat to save or favorite a family I’ve played so I can easily check back on it to see if my descendants have survived. The controls are tricky at first but once you dedicate some time to actually learning them, given the the complexity, they aren’t bad at all. Everything from the art style to the music and sound effects is very pleasing. An option to display floating names would make it easier for me to quickly identify my family but that could make the screen too chaotic. Overall I love this game and would easily buy this over energy drinks anytime.

Coming back
Thu Jul 11 2019 CocoMillion

This is probably 1 of my all time favorite games there’s just 1 or 2 problems. 1 so many people want to go back to their old civilization (me included) so they run away and kill themselves if they’re not in the right world so if u could make away to go back to the civilization we want that would be awesome. 2 I have a friend who also plays and it’s fun to play with her, but sadly she lives far away so maybe u could make away to have “friends” and know when they’re playing so you can join them or/and be able to invite a friend to the game you’re playing, if so that would be awesome! Other than that it’s a wonderful game! <3 P.S. for some reason you can’t name your kid giraffe

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