1 in 8 Billion: Pixel Life Sim

Hello, stranger. Ready to be someone else for five minutes? Tap once and a tiny pixel world map starts spinning. It lands wherever babies are actually being born this year: maybe Lagos, maybe Lima, maybe a village you've never heard of. That's you now. Welcome to the world. 1 in 8 Billion is a life simulator where you don't pick who you are. The world picks for you, using real numbers: how likely you are to finish school, find work, fall in love, stay healthy and grow old in the place you landed. Your choices nudge the odds. Luck and geography do the rest. Then you do it all again, somewhere new. A WHOLE LIFE IN FIVE MINUTES • Be born in any of 196 countries, with the live odds ticking as the map spins • Grow from a wobbly pixel baby into a wise pixel elder • Read your life as a calm, year-by-year story, one little card at a time • Keep an eye on four meters: Health, Happiness, Smarts and Looks • Earn, spend and save, and see how your income ranks in your country and the world NO TWO LIVES ARE THE SAME • 46 decision cards and about 30 choices per life: stay in school or start working, move to the city, marry, open a shop, retire early, care for your parents • The same choice feels different in every country, because the world around you is different • Family, friends, pets, jobs and degrees, with a tap on anyone to see how close you are • In a hurry? Hold the "+ Age" button to skip ahead to your next big decision REAL NUMBERS, GENTLY TOLD • Lines marked "Data:" show the real figure behind each moment and where it comes from • Lifespans, schooling, income, illness and causes of death follow each country's published statistics • Sources: World Bank, WHO, UN IGME, UNICEF, ILO, UNESCO, UNAIDS, UNODC, ITU • Hard things happen at the rate they happen in the world, and they are always told softly, never shown SEE YOUR LIFE AT A GLANCE • Life map: one square per year, greener when you were happier, with your milestones marked • Survival curve: how many people born the same year as you are still around at your age • Money sheet: net worth, income, your rank at home and worldwide, and where a year's pay goes WHEN THE STORY ENDS • A record of your life with dates, epitaph, milestones and pixel ribbons • A share card for your friends: "You were 1 of 8,104,233,071 people alive" • Live on as your own child and carry the family into the next generation • An album of everyone you've been, 32 achievements and a weekly challenge MADE WITH CARE • 8-bit art on a clean paper-white page, with crisp text that scales with Dynamic Type • Designed dark mode, VoiceOver labels, Reduce Motion support and gentle haptics • Gentle mode leaves out the hardest events if you'd rather keep things light • No account, no ads, no tracking. Your lives stay on your iPhone. Who will you be next? Privacy Policy: https://1in8billionlife.app/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://1in8billionlife.app/terms/ Support: https://1in8billionlife.app/support/ or contact@1in8billionlife.app EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/