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1 in 8 Billion
Also known as 80億分の1 · 80亿分之1 · 八十亿分之一 · 80億分之1 · 80억 분의 1 · 1in8b
Be born as a random person somewhere on Earth and live their life, year by year.
- Genre
- Life Simulation
- Developer
- Jin's Earth · Solo
- Release date
- Price
- FreePlayable now
- Languages
- EnglishEnglish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, French, Thai +11 moreas of Nov 3, 2026Jin's Earth
19 language versions published by the official site (hreflang alternates).
- Development method
- Vibe-Coded · Solo Developer
- AI coding tools
- Claude
Official site 1in8b.life, verified Nov 2, 2026. Named as the only official address on the developer's About page and by independent press (ASCII.jp, AUTOMATON, KAI-YOU). Beware of look-alike sites
Where to play
Every platform this game is on. Links are checked against official sources; we never host or mirror games.
- Play free — official siteBrowserReleased · Public betaFree
Runs in a desktop or mobile browser. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 2, 2026.
About 1 in 8 Billion
A free, text-driven life simulation that runs in the browser. Each run starts with a random birth: the country is drawn in proportion to real birth (or population) shares, and the life then unfolds year by year using that country's statistics for life expectancy, health, income and schooling, drawn from United Nations, WHO and World Bank data. Between events the player makes choices about education, work and family, but the circumstances of birth are left to chance — which is the point. No account or install is needed. The developer built the first public version with Anthropic's Claude in about four hours and kept improving it after it spread on social media in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and beyond. It is a simulation with game rules layered on top of statistics, not a forecast: event odds are not reproduced one-for-one from the data.
Content note: Includes death, illness, war and domestic violence; the official site recommends it for ages 15 and up. (Marie Claire Taiwan)
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe official site says the game is made with Anthropic's Claude and improved with it continuously. Press reports describe the first public version going from first prompt to live website in about four hours.
- DeveloperOfficial About page: operator Jin's Earth makes the game with Anthropic's Claude. — Jin's Earth (official site)
- DeveloperReports the game as AI-made and quotes the developer's account of building it with generative AI. — ASCII.jp
- UnverifiedNames the model as Claude Opus 5.5. We found no developer statement confirming the model version. — Wikipedia (Japanese)
Prompt-driven solo development. According to the developer's interview with Korean media (as relayed by Japanese and Taiwanese press), the developer had long thought about how people cannot choose where they are born; on Oct 5, 2026 they started building, shared progress on Threads, and — when followers asked for a link — bought a domain and published the site the same evening.
Verification notes: Developer, official domain and release date agree across the official About page and independent Japanese, Chinese and Korean sources. AI tool use is stated by the developer; the model version is not confirmed. The concurrent-player figure is press-reported only. Official-site text was checked via search-indexed copies because direct access was blocked from our research environment.
Reported popularity
Popularity labels are only shown with a source. Press reports describe attention; they are not player counts.
- Viral
AUTOMATON reported the simulator as “大流行中” (hugely popular) in Japan, driven by players sharing their randomly assigned lives on social media.
- Viral
ASCII.jp described the game as “大バズり” (massively viral), quoting player reactions such as “I cried” and “It made me think”.
- Trending
Tencent News reported the game as a hit overseas (“海外爆火”), covering its four-hour build with AI.
- Viral
Tinkoff Journal (T—Zh) explained the 1 in 8 Billion browser game and why it went viral: it first caught on in mid-October 2026 in the Asian segment of X, then spread worldwide as players shared their characters' stories and cards.
- Viral
HK01 reported that the free Korean-made life-simulation browser game 80億分之1 had gone viral on social platforms worldwide. It also said a Traditional Chinese interface had recently been added and that large numbers of players were trying the game.
- Viral
NOWnews reported that the free browser game 80億分之1 (1 in 8 Billion) was spreading rapidly on Asian social platforms and had launched a Traditional Chinese version.
Viral: Independent press reported rapid, widespread social sharing. Each claim links to the article and its publication date. Trending: Rising attention: a documented press report, or a high trend score from observed signals (sample values in this prototype).
Development history
After sharing the build on Threads, the developer buys a domain and publishes the first public version — about four hours after the first prompt.
AUTOMATON reports the game is hugely popular in Japan as players share their randomly assigned lives.
ObservedAUTOMATON- Mid-October 2026 (exact date not confirmed)
Press reports more than 84,000 people playing at once on the official site, about ten days after launch.
Unverifiedcoki Chinese-language coverage reports the game as a hit outside Japan and Korea.
ObservedTencent News- Ongoing
The official site describes the game as a beta that is improved daily with Claude, available in many languages; copycat sites appear, and the developer lists domains that are not affiliated.
DeveloperJin's Earth (official site)
Game performance
Each figure measures something different — concurrent players, owners, downloads and sales are never interchangeable and are never added together. Labels show where each number comes from.
Browser (official site)
Free to play with no account. The official site also publishes a terms-and-refunds page, so optional paid features may exist; not confirmed.
Reported by coki as “over 84,000” playing at once on the official site's live counter, about ten days after launch. Publication date not confirmed and not observed by us. Concurrent players are not total players or downloads.
Not publicly available: Monthly revenue.
Sales & revenue (all platforms)
Browser game — there are no downloads to count.
Reviews & rankings
Not yet reviewed by our editors.
Prototype: your vote is kept only in this browser and is not counted anywhere.
Quoted in the original language, with a translation. These are not ratings and are not counted in any score.
No player reviews yet.
Prototype: reviews are stored in your browser only and are not published or sent to a server. Reviews are shown in the language they were written in.
Official site and look-alikes
Several similarly named websites exist. We keep one canonical record for the game at its official site and do not merge other sites into it: their versions, traffic or popularity claims are never attributed to this game.
| Domain | Relationship | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| 1in8b.life | Official | Canonical site; named by the developer as the only official address. (Jin's Earth (official site)) |
| 1in8bn.com | Not affiliated (per developer) | Listed by the developer as unrelated. (Jin's Earth (official site)) |
| 1in8billion.app | Not affiliated (per developer) | Listed by the developer as unrelated. (Jin's Earth (official site)) |
| 1in8b.app | Not affiliated (per developer) | Listed by the developer as unrelated; describes itself as a separate, independent project. (1in8b.app) |
| 1in8b.live | Not affiliated (per developer) | Listed by the developer as unrelated. (Jin's Earth (official site)) |
| 1in8b.net | Not affiliated (per developer) | Listed by the developer as unrelated. (Jin's Earth (official site)) |
| in8b.com | Not affiliated (per developer) | Listed by the developer as unrelated. (Jin's Earth (official site)) |
| 1in8b-life.com | Unofficial (self-described) | Calls itself an unofficial mirror not operated, sponsored or endorsed by Jin's Earth. (1in8b-life.com) |
| 1-in-8-billion.com | Unofficial (self-described) | Describes itself as an independent browser edition. |
| eightbillionlives.com | Relationship unconfirmed | Uses “official site” in its title but is not the domain the developer names; relationship unconfirmed. |
Only the official domain is linked. Other domains are shown as text so this page does not send them traffic.
Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 in 8 Billion — official site Jin's Earth | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| About 1 in 8 Billion Jin's Earth (official site) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| Terms and refunds Jin's Earth (official site) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| “統計に基づくリアル人生”シミュレーター『80億分の1』大流行中 AUTOMATON · Japanese | Press | Oct 13, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 「泣いた」「考えさせられる」 AIで作られた人生シミュレーションゲーム「80億分の1」が大バズり ASCII.jp · Japanese | Press | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| “誰かの一生”を体験するブラウザゲーム『80億分の1』 平均寿命など141か国の統計データを活用 KAI-YOU · Japanese | Press | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 誰でもゲームが作れる時代の到来? 人生シミュレーター『80億分の1』が巻き起こした反響 Real Sound Tech · Japanese | Press | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 「80億分の1」とは?——無料シミュレータがSNSで大ブームに coki · Japanese | Press | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 4小时做出80亿种人生,《八十亿分之一》海外爆火 Tencent News · Chinese | Press | Oct 23, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 《80億分之1》是什麼?人生模擬遊戲在日本爆紅 Marie Claire Taiwan · Chinese (Traditional) | Press | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 免費人生模擬器:「80億分之1」,重新隨機投胎 172 個國家 iQmore · Chinese (Traditional) | Press | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 80億分の1 Wikipedia (Japanese) · Japanese | Wiki | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 80억 분의 1 NamuWiki · Korean | Wiki | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| About Us — 1in8b-life.com 1in8b-life.com | Third-party site | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| About 1in8b: An Independent 1 in 8 Billion Life Game 1in8b.app | Third-party site | Not confirmed | Nov 2, 2026 |
| 1 in 8 Billion — веб-игра, в которой можно прожить жизнь случайного человека на планете. Почему она завирусилась? Т—Ж (Tinkoff Journal) · ru | Press | Oct 27, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| 韓國免費投胎遊戲全球爆紅!隨機投胎172國家 網民:玩到眼濕濕 HK01 (香港01) · Chinese (Traditional) | Press | Oct 16, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| 《80億分之1》人生遊戲爆紅免費玩!體驗重新投胎 繁體中文上線 NOWnews今日新聞 · Chinese (Traditional) | Press | Oct 15, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) Jin's Earth | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
- Countries covered
- Reported as 141 countries (KAI-YOU) and 172 countries (iQmore); likely different versions of the game. (KAI-YOU, iQmore)
- Languages
- Sources give between 15 and 18 interface languages. (Jin's Earth (official site), NamuWiki)
- AI model version
- Japanese Wikipedia names Claude Opus 5.5; the official site says only “Claude”. (Wikipedia (Japanese), Jin's Earth (official site))
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