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You are Hope – Roleplaying Game Review
You are Hope is a Roleplaying/Simulation game from Wereviz AB, first launched in 17th August 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,140+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes You are Hope Stand Out
1 Role playing game in 32 countries so far!
"You are Hope" is based on an earlier version of a PC game called "ONE HOUR ONE LIFE", made by Jason Rohrer.
It's not the same game though. You are Hope's gameplay and online worlds are separate from OHOL's, and the emphasis is more on the need to collaborate peacefully with other players in order to survive and evolve. Your task is to rebuild civilization from scratch, together with other players and across countless generations.
One important thing you do in this game is to name your children (who are also players). "You are Hope" is what a mother would say when she gives the name 'Hope' to her baby.
You are born either as a baby to one of the other players, or as a young woman if no suitable mother is found. Every minute of real time is one year in the game and your maximum age is 60 years. A single life is limited, but the things you make during your lifetime are left for your children and grandchildren once you are gone. Try to make life a little bit easier for those who come after you, so your family line will have a chance to prosper for generations to come.
Sometimes you will spawn alone in the wilderness. You need to build a fire to stay warm and trap rabbits to get meat and furs for clothes. A sharp stone may be your best friend in the beginning. Try to find a good spot to settle and grow some food, because other players may soon arrive as your children, and will need to be taken care of until they are grown enough to help you.
Sometimes you will be born in a sprawling city, with farmers, cooks, blacksmiths, shepherds and hunters. There will be clothes and equipment ready for you, prepared by players who may be your grandparents or distant relatives. Maybe you will gather some friends and set out to start a settlement of your own, maybe you will inherit a farm job from your uncle, or maybe you will slay bears and wolves. The choices are endless, but remember: unless you leave the world better after you have lived than when you arrived, you have not really achieved anything.
Every life you play will put you in contact with new players. Some are more experienced than you, some are less. Some will teach you and some will learn from you. Some may even be disruptive to the civilization you are building, and will need to be dealt with accordingly. It will be up to you and your fellow players to shape the world for a brief moment in time, before the following generations take over.
After your game life is over, you can look at your family tree and see how your descendants are doing. You can take pride in each of your younger relatives who survives into adulthood and in each new generation that follows you, knowing that you helped make it happen.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, You are Hope is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th March 2023
Recent improvements include:
New Easter/Spring themed content:
- Colored eggs
- Flower Bouquets
- Flower Crown
- Decorated baskets
Ammalon has some new items that you can trade for:
- Vinegar
- Curry Powder
- Bunny Hat
Download & Availability
You are Hope is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The only issue is that you dont always respawn in the same place on a private server.
The game is awesome our first life we played was a good one we lived till 60 to the developers keep updating.
This is so stupid, we had to delete Minecraft to do this stupid update and its still glitched, we use an IPad with 16 Gigabytes and we have used 15.5, THE UPDATE STILL DOSINT WORK.
Protect your children and leave something behind to make the next generations time a little easier! Amazing game.
We tried to get back to playing but at the part where you need to drop the basket into the green biome Im unable to do it and its frustrating the heck out of us. Why did you change the tutorial into mandatory now we cant enjoy a game that we paid for.
So we bought this game accidentally so we played it anyway, took the tutorial and we were lost still. This game is so boring to us and the swipe doesnt even work. We want our money back pls.
Its time to celebrate this update was cool.
You should get this game its really fun.
We used to like the freedom of the game, but now theres so many rules and punishments in the new update we dont enjoy it anymore. It was nice while it lasted.
We bought this game about two weeks ago on our iPhone SE we really enjoy the game and we mentioned it to our friend so he bought it on his iPad we are two separate people and we bought the same app on two separate devices now the frustrating part is is when we join as our character the beginner map on our iphone he joins on his iPad whoever joins first it takes that person character from that other persons device without being connected in anyway two separate people we were wondering is anybody else having that problem and if the developer see this hopefully if its a bug you can fix this very frustrating but we do not understand how it breaches our connection its been on two separate devices.
We think this game is great we love that theres soo much too do its like it never stops!the possibilities are endless we think its also cool that you can chat and make your own emotes :D.
We love the sandbox freedom of the game and how one can do anything. We wish there were an option to play as a solo player, where you can hone your skills at starting from nothing without the pressure of raising someone from a pup into toddlerhood. That way you could practice finding the resources in a real world setting without frustrating other players.
So this game is a lot of fun and that but we wonder one day you guys can make oceans and countries because that will be fun a trade. We could imagine this in our head if you read this.
We were banned for stealing a crown from a baby and we havent gotten to play with other players since. We love this game and all but COME ON! IT WAS A BABY.
This game is great we love survival game the only issue we have is the controls the swiping is really hard and we wish there was a place button a craft button and a swipe button that you could turn on and of other then that this game is great and recommended getting it thats all.
We gave this game 5/5 stars because we enjoy playing it when we have an hour or so to waste, it is very fun and we enjoy getting to build, and craft things, and have a family! Its always a fun thing to do when theres spare time! :).
Game developers can you add this in the game can you make your age higher like 60 years old and die 70% 70 years old and die 25% and 80 to 90 years old die 5% can you please add this thanks.
This might be one of the best games we have ever played.
Our only suggestion is they should add getting married so the males have more things to do than work, also if some family tree met another, a male could marry one from the different family tree and they become one family tree.(getting married also increases babies).
We absolutely love this game, its creative, fun, and we love the art style! We spend hours on this game Money well spent.
This games really good and interactive but the only thing you have to worry about is it can be VERY hard to get used to all the crafting recipes.
As a OHOL player, this is our opinion: The game doesn't have a large player count. The gameplay is great however and it has a big future ahead of it. We havent tested if they added soup though. If not, please at the sisters soup.
We wish it would update, even if its just Santa :(.
If you spawn in a Town and spot the clothing Hut, Thank you grave beside it because that is us. Hi, Im the Clothing Hut Keeper, we sell clothes to all does in need. So come to the clothing hut indeed.
Exactly like One hour one life if you dont have a PC we recommend you get this.
Someone kidnapped us and made us starve to death :D.
WISH MORE PEOPLE PLAYED CAUZE SERVERS A LITTLE SMALL.
Love it but no tutorials on how to make/build things. Gotta figure it out yourself.
We love the game a lot, but we wish we could have an update where some of the stuff could have more of one hour one life added on to it, we know thats its different but we would love for it to add more items, you could skip the intro (where they give tips to new players), other then that its an amazing game and Ive been playing it for almost a year, it just gets really boring after a while and repetitive.
This is amazing and we have only one request, (other than Labrador Retrievers in Black, Brown, Silver, and Yellow.) Twin and triplet codes. BRUHH THIS WAS ALREADY HERE???? We WAS GOING TO WRITE THIS SAME REVIEW AND IT WAS ALREADY HERE. THIS SCARED THE BEJESUS OUTA ME.
It has potential but its really hard to play and the tutorials are unclear. Every person we played with didnt know what to do either so its not just us.
Love this game. Paid for the full complete version so far and have had a wonderful time playing it. Ive played with many people creating huge families. We have just a few suggestions and hopes because this game has so much potential. We need frequent updates. Simple as that. Get closer to whats updated and available like what we find on YouTube. Great game. Then theres crafting.we need a more solid understanding and reference to learn what to craft for what we want to build. Not everyone has terrific memory. The book crafting guide is not very good or understand or really. Thats why Im calling for an update on this game people. This would get a solid 5 star from us if the option were available such as better crafting guides, more things that are comparable to the actual game itself. Amazing potential and Im sure like ourselves, others are eager to see more from this.
Im happy this exists since we use Mac and Jason hasnt done a Mac version but the hit box areas are hard to do so we hooked up our mouse to the iPad and it helps but is still harder than the og. Still cool.
Its a fun game. We would like it, but there are no players. We recommend you just get the actual one hour one life, because it has so many players. Maybe in the future this game could get a following, but for now its pretty boring.
We never had the og version of the game so we cant compare the 2 but THIS GAME IS AMAZING JUST AMAZING And thats all:).
Plz bring him back. Played religiously for two years.
Such a fun and addicting game. Ive probably spent hundreds of hours in this game over the few years and there are still so many new things to learn and explore, we cant say enough good things about it – we just wish more people knew about this game.
Its a lot of fun but we wish it was free so more people could play and there servers would be more populated.
Please lets us pick up basket It will help a lot and there should be more servers with killing and normal starvation.
Love this game, only complaint is that: we wish you could continue working on the same base after you die, the rebirth lily rarely works and then you have to restart your base.
Honestly, this game is super well done! Its our favorite game to play on our phone, but im disappointed with the add on that we bought. For what comes out to be a little more than $3, you get literally nothing lol. You can spectate one of your children after you die if theyre still alive, but that gets boring after about four seconds. Its like we payed an extra three dollars on top of what we already paid for the game originally for no reason. Also, we wish this game would track relatives and grave stones to way back generations, like cousins fourth time removed, etc etc, like the pc game does. Other than those, this game is awesome! Hence the four star rating.
Love this game but when we go to share the family tree with our discord it never works. It just takes us back into the app but doesnt do anything.
The swipe controls work maybe .15% of the time. They make us want to rip our hair out. Good game though.
Good game, but the controls are wonky and the connection is horrible, we join a server and we lose connection a minute later. Good game, just really challenging in an annoying way.
Im not sure why but the game will not let us do certain tasks. We cannot even get through the tutorial. When it comes to the diagonal swipes(like sharpening your stone, or watering your farm plot) it just does not work. Im pretty upset that we spent $4 on this app.
You cant even interact with the stuff in the game. Its very difficult to use on mobile. We are warning you dont buy this version as it is disappointing. You cant interact with stuff and it seems like such a waste of time. The swipe function takes a lot of time to do. Youll swipe the screen multiple times and its ineffective. Buy the full game on the computer. This aint it.
We cannot stress this enough, the developers need to either make the game free or refund anyone who bought it in the past 3 months as the concurrent player count is absolutely abysmal. There were two people supposedly on NA servers and when we joined we were the only person. There are no civilizations left, there is no community, and in turn no point to even getting this game. Please go an buy One Hour One Life on steam made by the original creator, which these guys honestly shouldnt be allowed to sell his work as their own. The game tells you they ripped it from the original creator and still are charging money when their services are basically nonexistent. TLDR; Nobody is online on this game, dont buy it we instantly had buyers remorse upon opening it.
We absolutely love this game! However, we think /die should be added like in OHOL bc we lose so many children bc they run away. So many families die out that way. Thats all, we love this game! We even got to befriend Briar Rose which was super cool.
This game is great Ive been playing for YEARS now and we absolutely love it but you should add more fun stuff to grow like peppers tomatoes watermelon etc.
The swiping mechanic is our biggest issue with the game, as its difficult to swipe such small items on the screen. Its strange we dont have a button for combing/using items together, as we do to feed our character.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.25.0
- Size: 168.82 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Wereviz AB
Last updated: 24th March 2023 | Genre: Roleplaying, Simulation | Developer: Wereviz AB