Observed arrival · 2026-11-10
Borrowed Lives: a playable life shaped by history
A free beta simulation lets you make choices in fictional lives built from historical and demographic data across 180 countries, from 1900 to today.
- For
- Players curious about lives shaped by history and circumstance
- Worth noticing
- Its year-by-year chart compares a run with the average for someone who began under the same conditions.
Field notes
After starting, a player enters a fictional life defined by a birthplace and historical period; choices steer career, challenges, and direction. The year-by-year view can compare that run with an average for the same starting conditions, while the gallery exposes 30 completed lives and their result cards. Listed inputs range from income and mortality to education, employment, health measures, and country-specific wars, famines, and coups, with sources named from the World Bank, Our World in Data, UN, UNICEF, WHO, and ILO.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
One card from the complete issue