Changelog

Here's what we've added and fixed during the beta. If something seems off or you have an idea, let us know via "Send Feedback."

October 2026 (beta)

Added

• Launched the English edition. The game works exactly like the Japanese edition; screens, decisions, notes and explainers are in English, names and places are in romaji, and money is shown in yen (¥). Switch languages from the menu or the footer. Lives finished in English appear only in the English "Everyone's lives".
• Added lives in the nightlife world. You can work as a cast member at a kyabakura (hostess club; a club hostess before 1985), a host, a bartender, or at an izakaya (Japanese pub), and go on to become the "mama" or "master" of a snack bar (a small bar run by its owner), a bar owner, or an izakaya owner. You'll also live through COVID-19 closures and regulars growing old. Office workers get stories too, like quitting the company to open an izakaya, or a favorite snack bar they keep going back to.
• Made farmers' lives more detailed (MAFF, 2026 Survey on Agricultural Structural Dynamics). What you grow is set from rice, vegetables, greenhouse crops, fruit, dairy, and beef cattle, and you'll face events of the times like gentan (rice acreage reduction), rice shortages, and foot-and-mouth disease, along with crossroads: whether to expand your fields or incorporate, who will take over, what to do with your family's rice paddies, and whether to start farming fresh after moving from the city.
• Added snack bar "mamas" and "masters," hosts, cast members, izakaya owners, and bar owners to the example lives in Everyone's Lives.
• Turned "Everyone's Lives" into a memorial. Lives lived to the end are shown with a pixel-art scene from their high point, a name, birth and death years, and a title, and you can filter by prefecture or meet one at random. You can "leave flowers" for a life that stayed with you (one bouquet per day), and share each life with its own link (/#m=number). You can also "Be born anew" right from the memorial.
• Added the February 2026 House of Representatives election (the 51st). In the year before, you choose "the news you care about most," and on election day you compare what each party promised on that issue and choose whom to vote for in the proportional representation vote. The results (316 seats for the LDP, and so on) are shown after you vote. We also added the history of political parties, from the 1955 System through the founding of Komeito, the Democratic Party of Japan, Ishin, and the Constitutional Democratic Party, to "The times you lived through."
• Tidied up the smartphone layout. From the menu (≡) in the top right, you can find how to play, settings for generation and number of decisions, music, explainers, feedback, and more. The first screen of the home page now focuses on "Be born."
• On the results screen, sharing now leads with the "Share this life" card of the 3 best scenes, with the trailer video, vertical photos, and result card grouped under "Make it in other formats." The long source notes are now collapsed.
• Added a summary at the top of the results screen of what kind of life it was and how it ended. We now state what the rank compares, and make clear that IQ, personality type, kindness and honesty, and the like are game settings. Choices from your younger years (your first boyfriend or girlfriend, the school festival, your dreams, studying abroad, and so on) are now remembered in later scenes.
• Added "Everyone's Lives." You can anonymously look in on lives lived to the end here (names and notes aren't shown, and you can remove yours with "Don't show it" on the results screen). The home page now shows how many people were born recently and how many have been born so far.
• Added quiet music made with Japanese scales (the miyako-bushi and yo scales), which you can turn on in the settings.
• Your spouse's employer, work style, and income are now shown, and while you're married, "family total assets" and household income (you + your spouse) are displayed.
• The home page now shows, under the logo, that this is a beta and its version number.
• On smartphones, the home page and results screen now show an "Add to home screen" tip so you can open it with one tap like an app (Android adds it on the spot; iPhone shows the steps). You can now return home from the logo in the header.
• Added "humanity." It goes up and down with your actions: the higher it is, the more others help you; the lower, the more they hold you back. The harsher the environment you grow up in, the more bad temptations you'll face (a bad crowd in your teens, multilevel marketing, gambling), and relatives or close friends may ask you to co-sign a loan. After a stumble, you can choose to start over by changing where you live and who you spend time with.
• High school entrance exams now let you choose from four schools at different levels. Schools are shown as levels 1–4, and in Hokkaido, Aomori, and Akita you can choose from real high school names (kosen, colleges of technology, nationwide), with other prefectures to follow. If you don't make it, you go to the private high school you applied to as a backup.
• University entrance exams now let you choose four schools from real university names (MEXT, School Code List). Universities from your home region and the Tokyo area are listed, and if you don't make it, you may go to a private university you applied to as a backup.
• Added marital crises. Before a divorce, events such as incompatibility, infidelity, overspending or investment losses, conflict with in-laws, moral harassment or economic abuse, and violence can happen, and you choose whether to rebuild or consider divorce. For violence and moral harassment, we point you to support services.
• Added junior high and high school uniforms (sailor uniforms, blazers, gakuran stand-collar uniforms) and skirts and ribbons for elementary school girls to the pixel art.
• Added more romance. Whether your school is coed or single-sex changes how likely confessions of love are during your school years, and you can choose "whether to confess to the person you like." In your 20s you choose a partner (with personality-type compatibility shown), and if you're still in school, you can even choose to marry as a student.
• Added university difficulty (4 levels), so how easily you get into a large company now depends on your university. When changing jobs, the paths available and your prospects now depend on your experience and age (including moves to large companies and foreign-owned firms).
• Added overseas postings (at major trading companies and the like), high school study abroad, exchange programs, working holidays, and emigration (working locally abroad, or long stays after retirement).
• Added personality types (the 16 four-letter types). The result of what you chose at a crossroads is now shown right below the scene.
• Rebuilt the craftsperson path. You choose how to train, through apprenticeship, a specialty school or vocational training school, or the family business, and grow from years of groundwork to fully qualified, to going independent (noren-wake, opening your own shop under your master's name, or going abroad), to taking on apprentices of your own.
• Added a life hooked on fortune-telling. Fortune-telling sways your decisions about changing jobs and romance, and in hard times you may be pushed to buy pots or personal seals through "spiritual sales" scams (there's also a path to consult your family or the Consumer Hotline 188).
• Added the features of this simulator to the home page (living through Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa; values that change your decisions; unusual lives; disclosure of real data and assumptions).
• After writing your will, you can now choose your "ideal funeral" (a family-only funeral, a traditional funeral, a farewell gathering, a tree burial or scattering of ashes, or a direct cremation; a living funeral if you have money to spare). People with a faith have their funeral held according to its customs.
• Added events where people with star quality are called "cute" from an early age and get confessions of love during their school years. A confession during your trainee days pulls you between love and a "no dating" rule.
• Each person born now has "what they care about most (values)," and we added decisions that face the events of the times (hoarding during the oil shock, choosing the career track or the clerical track, bubble-era stocks, volunteering after an earthquake, evacuating from Fukushima, elections, the new NISA). Under Auto, the path that fits your values is chosen.
• Added era names (Showa, Heisei, Reiwa) and "The times," which lets you learn Japanese history. About 130 events from Japan's defeat in World War II to Reiwa (politics, the economy, disasters, incidents, sports, culture, IT, trends) flow by according to your age at the time and are collected in "The times you lived through" on the results screen. Disasters in your prefecture and experiences that overlap with your age (your first time voting, the lowering of the age of adulthood, purikura photo booths, the new NISA, and more) happen too.
• Added celebrations for kanreki (60), koki (70), kiju (77), sanju (80), beiju (88), sotsuju (90), hakuju (99), and hyakuju (100). How you celebrate changes with your family's shape, and your pixel-art self wears clothes in the traditional color for longevity celebrations (when times are hard, you mark the day quietly).
• Your childhood "favorite things" now lead to junior high school clubs, your field of study, chasing your dreams, and job offers.
• Added investing in Bitcoin and NVIDIA. Prices move with actual year-end prices, and results vary greatly depending on when you buy and sell.
• Added types of talent agencies (major idol agencies, audition shows, agencies strong in acting, theater companies, comedy training schools, music agencies, small agencies) and teenage trainees. People who studied at music colleges, drama programs, and the like can try those paths.
• You now get multiple chances to marry, and we added remarriage after divorce or the death of a spouse. Your spouse may also die.
• You can now choose an industry that fits your field of study (music, broadcasting and film, design and advertising, game development, sports, food service and hotels).
• Added jobs such as Self-Defense Force member, police officer, firefighter, pilot, fisher, farmer, craftsperson, Buddhist monk, and astronaut, with pixel art for each job (uniforms, backgrounds).
• The "Choices you made" list now shows the outcome of each choice (passed, failed, arrested, and so on) after an "→".
• Added music colleges, art colleges, drama and film, and physical education and sports to "Field of study," along with vocational schools for music, design, voice acting, sports, and cooking.
• Added variations in hairstyle, hair color, skin color, and glasses to the pixel art, along with belongings and backgrounds that fit your life (stage, hospital, the Diet, hair salon, filming room, prison, stadium, and more).
• Added paths as a professional athlete or an entrepreneur, and skills and qualifications you gain over your life.
• When you die before age 70, a cause (cancer, heart disease, an accident, suicide, and so on) is now always shown. The order of causes follows the leading causes of death by age in the Vital Statistics.
• Added unusual lives: paths aiming to become a comedian, musician, artist, actor, singer, or idol; being scouted; dating reality shows; micro-influencers; medical school and ronin (retaking entrance exams); elite private elementary schools; growing up in the family of a listed company's president; politicians; hairdressers; YouTubers; children raised in a religious group; lives born as an immigrant or mixed-heritage child; and the yakuza, yami baito (shady gig jobs that recruit for crime), embezzlement, and drinking mishaps (explainer).
• Added traits you're born with (IQ, EQ, and talent for comedy, music, and art) and "This year's focus," for sharpening your skills in childhood.
• Changed the default number of decisions to "More."
• Added the "Roadmap and Voting" page. You can vote for features you want.
• Added a feedback form, changelog, record transfer, add to home screen, privacy policy, and user guide to the bottom of the site.
• Added "Look back on my life (20 questions)." It builds a pixel-art timeline from your answers and compares it with statistics for people born in the same year and prefecture.
• Added the "3 best scenes" card, a trailer video, and vertical photos to the results screen to make saving and sharing easier.
• At birth, you now get a first name (one that was common in your birth year) and a family name common in your birth prefecture.
• Added pixel art that ages from a baby onward, scenes of your family and home, and a final screen that looks back on your life in pixel art.
• You can now choose the number of decisions from "Fewer, Normal, More," and we added more small childhood decisions and decisions with notes. It starts at "More."
• Added moments between decisions to take a breather and look back, slowing down the pace of a life.
• Being born into a household in relative poverty or a single-parent household, dropping out of high school, university, or graduate school, and traffic accidents and becoming a crime victim now happen in line with the statistics.
• The results screen now lets you see the full record of your life, including events you didn't choose.
• Added explainer pages for each area and comparison pages by prefecture.
• Added share pages for each result (with an image for each title).

Fixed

• Fixed old records, such as from your birth or starting elementary school, sometimes getting mixed into the text describing the outcome of a choice.
• Fixed people sometimes entering universities that didn't exist yet in the year they enrolled (we imported each university's founding year from the histories in MEXT's University List, and universities that were renamed appear under their name at the time).
• Fixed the opening summary of results describing people who dropped out of high school or university as having "graduated." We no longer assume that children of people who remarried are children with their current spouse. Having chased a dream as a comedian, actor, and the like now stays in the summary even if it didn't take off.
• Doctors no longer get a crossroads to "quit the company and start a business."
• Titles were concentrated on "Lived a contented life" and "Carried on the legacy," so we now choose titles that best set a life apart first, and show tags like "#hometown-for-life #2-kids" under the title.
• So that celebrations like koki, kiju, and sanju don't show up as major events every time, all except kanreki, beiju, and hyakuju are now short entries.

Fixes and adjustments

• "Same birth, different choices" now lets you replay a life with the same birth year, name, family line, roots, family religion, talents, and looks. Share links now include family line, roots, religion, and birth year too.
• The line shown in years without events now matches the person's situation (in prison, chasing a dream, their job, on public assistance, after losing a spouse, living alone). Scene descriptions now show the correct workplace or stage.
• People who run out of savings in old age now live on support from their children or public assistance, so debt doesn't grow without limit. If pensions can't cover the mortgage, the house is sold. Debt that working-age people can't repay is settled through personal bankruptcy.
• Fixed a bug where people who started school late never worked their whole lives.
• Divorce rates now vary by generation (about 20% for the baby boomers, about 30% for younger generations).
• Made lives less alike. Scenes such as favorite things, pets, caregiving, the neighbor's kid, the lottery, and wills now vary from life to life in whether and at what age they appear. Children are born one at a time, two years apart.
• Decision text now matches the person's situation (student, single, with or without children, whether they drink). Events meant for company employees (promotion to a regular position, getting promoted, losing a job) no longer happen to people chasing a dream, people in a yakuza group, or the self-employed.
• Removed contradictions in the flow, such as being automatically hired while retaking medical school entrance exams, "Field of study" appearing again after being accepted, lifestyle decisions appearing in years spent in prison, "change jobs" appearing while running a startup, and an entrance exam scene appearing for internal promotion at an elite school.
• Adjusted savings to come closer to savings by age in the Statistics Bureau of Japan's Family Income and Expenditure Survey.
• Added building depreciation to the value of owned homes, fixing savings that came out too high for people in their 60s and single people (net worth at 65 in "Looking ahead" also goes down).
• Replaced retirement allowances with a calculation based on values from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's General Survey on Working Conditions.
• Smoothed the net-worth line on the graph to make it easier to read. On smartphones, the graph now shows text only for the most recent decisions.
• You can now choose analytics settings (allow or decline), and we strengthened security settings.