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1 life

Video game concept

Player has no extra lives nor continues, death or other loss condition simply results in game over or in some cases automatic loading of newest save.

994
games
68
platforms

Alternate name: No extra lives

Deus Ex (Windows)
Deus Ex
WIN 2000-06-22
Gothic (Windows)
Gothic
WIN 2001-03-15
STRAFE (Windows)
STRAFE
WIN 2017-05-09
Arx Libertatis (Linux)
Arx Libertatis
LIN 2011
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (Windows)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
WIN 2004-11-16
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green (Windows)
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
WIN 2005-10
Alan Wake (Windows)
Alan Wake
WIN 2012-02-16
Enemy Zero (Saturn)
Enemy Zero
SAT 1996
Run, Jesus Run! (Flash)
Run, Jesus Run!
FLA 2010-05
Resident Evil 2 (Windows)
Resident Evil 2
WIN 1999
The Terminator: SkyNET (MS-DOS)
The Terminator: SkyNET
DOS 1996-05
Alone in the Dark (Windows)
Alone in the Dark
WIN 2008-06-20
Related:
* Permanent death - any saves are deleted upon death as well
* No saves

Contrast:
* Lives
* Unlimited lives
* Deathless
Continues commonly seen in arcade games are treated the same as lives for this.

This is only useful to mark games that have been reviewed not to have multiple lives.

Combined with retry points, we can assume the game creates some form of non-permanent (in memory) auto saves at certain points.

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Games by year

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The first 1 life video game was released on July 1971.

EAG, NEUC and Activision published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 291
Apple II E 259
Linux 130
MS-DOS 98
Mac OS X 33
Mac OS Classic 12
BeOS 12
Tandy Coco 10
X360 9
BSD 8
PS2 7
Pandora 7
ZX Spectrum 6
TRS-80 6
C64 6
NES 5
OS/2 5
Atari 2600 4
NeXT 4
custom 4
Commander X16 4
Flash 3
PS 3
Android 3
Amiga 3
Unix 3
Electron 3
PS3 3
Dragon32 3
Amstrad CPC 2

Most common companies

EAG104
NEUC102
Activision24
Electronic Arts20
Interplay13
Ubisoft11
Eamon Adventurer's Guild10
GT Interactive10
Valve10
Beamdog9
Sega9
Eidos9
Bethesda Softworks8
Quicksilva7
Durell7