one life

The asymmetric multiplayer stealth-horror game The Flock was built upon a unique interpretation of limited access: The game would have a limited population, (the titular Flock), and once that population had been killed off, it would stop working forever. One Life, which recently appeared on Steam Greenlight, takes a similar idea even further. It’s a multiplayer shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world in which you’ll literally have just one life, and once you eat a bullet, you’ll be locked out of the game forever. The inherent harshness of the concept is tempered somewhat by the “Domination” mechanic, which allows players to decide the fate of “defeated” enemies. The good news is that losing doesn’t necessarily mean death. That is also, howeve...