Get Our Life: Now & Forever for PC

Our Life: Now & Forever is a choice-driven story about growing from childhood to adulthood in Golden Grove, a mountain town where autumn is settling in. After you and your mom move into a home on a close-knit cul-de-sac, a paper airplane lands at your feet and brings you to unexpected crossroads. Your two closest neighbors, Qiu and Tamarack, are the same age as you and live next door. Your choices shape your life and relationships as the years pass.

Create your character

Choose your first and last name, honorifics and nickname, and use the pronouns you prefer, including multiple pronoun types or a set of your own. Customize your appearance with a dress-up doll, choosing skin tone, hair, clothes and accessories. Your mom’s appearance is partly customizable, so you can give her a family resemblance.

Grow through the years

The story follows four periods: childhood, teenage years, young adulthood and adulthood. Across them, you encounter highs and lows, fears and fun, and possibilities for self-discovery. Hundreds of choices express your personality and preferences, and people remember the traits you show. You can also change over time, discovering passions, shifting your disposition or changing your pronouns.

Find your place in Golden Grove

Golden Grove is home to your mom, peers, their parents, teachers and other acquaintances. You decide where you fit and can nurture friendships, family ties and romance. You can judge people for yourself, including whether the stoic elderly man on your street seems scary or becomes an adopted grandpa.

Shape your relationships

Set how quickly your bonds develop, grow closer or farther apart over the years, and decide how you feel about the people in your life. You can focus on Qiu, Tamarack or both, including pursuing a polyamorous relationship with them. Your feelings determine how close you become, and there are no limits on which behaviors can make someone like you.

Set separate “dynamic meters” to describe how you behave toward Qiu and Tamarack, keeping those dynamics consistent or changing them as you grow up. Their dynamics toward you develop individually over time, based on who you are and what happens. Romance can begin as love at first sight, grow from a longtime friendship into a last-minute confession, develop slowly from no initial affection, or take another course. Friendships can form quickly or through earned fondness, from casual company to irreplaceable family.

Meet Qiu and Tamarack

Qiu “Autumn” Lin is a local, born and raised in Golden Grove. Popular and charming, Qiu eventually finds that attention overwhelming and shuts out all but a few people. With real support, Qiu’s sadness can heal, and they can shine again. Qiu is thoughtful and needs time to embrace the person they have always known themselves to be. Assigned male at birth, Qiu comes out as genderfluid (they/he) partway through the story.

Tamarack Baumann moved to Golden Grove about a week before you. She is a joyful newcomer who loves the forests and is always changing, though not always for the better. Bad influences lead her down hurtful paths, but her heart remains the same. She is kind, has much to learn about herself and keeps trying to find her way. Tamarack uses she/her pronouns. Both Qiu and Tamarack can have more than one hairstyle in the future.

Return to Golden Grove

The story can be replayed with new qualities for your character or different kinds of relationships. You can also customize the lettering size and font, choose between two textbox arrangements, or use the built-in self-voicing option.