Oda's Ordinary Lives

Oda's Ordinary Lives is a narrative game in which you shape Oda’s life from his first breath to his final moments. Each year brings an event and two choices about how he reacts. Your decisions affect what happens next, including relationships and opportunities that may appear years later.

A life of choices

Oda may learn to walk, go to school, make friends, fall in love, choose a career, meet strangers or start a family. He might build a brilliant career or remain in the same small village, have children or a dog, take risks or choose a quiet life. Some years bring major turning points; others pass with little happening. Choices that seem minor can resurface later, and a decision made at 15 can shape events up to age 70.

There is no victory condition: each playthrough tells the story of one life, shaped by choices, encounters, relationships and events. When Oda dies, you can start a new life or relive the exact same one and try to change certain events and alter his fate. The game describes millions of possible combinations, and no two playthroughs unfold exactly the same way.