Born in Japan

Roadmap and Voting

Here are the features we plan to build and the ones we're building now. Press "I want this" on the ones you'd like. We use the number of votes, along with the impact and the effort involved, to help decide priorities.

You get one vote per feature, and pressing it again takes your vote back. No sign-up required. For feature ideas not listed here, send them via "Send Feedback" under "Ideas / features you'd like."

Considering most votes first

Stats across everyone's lives

See what people who started from the same birth chose and how long they lived (no names or typed text are collected).

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Caring for parents, and your own illness

Decisions about caring for your parents and about changing how you work after a serious illness, matched to statistics.

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Historical events in your life

Events you meet depending on your birth year — the bubble collapse, the Lehman shock, earthquakes, pandemics — as scenes in your life.

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Live on as your child

At the end of a life, start the next one as your own child. Your household's circumstances carry over to their birth.

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Choose your own name

Pick your name at birth from the popular names of your birth year, or type your own.

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Compare results with friends

Put two lives from the same birth side by side, with timelines and charts, for people who played from a shared link.

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In progress

Released

English edition

An English version of every screen, decision and note, so friends abroad can experience being born in Japan.

Unusual lives

Lives with big swings: chasing dreams (comedian, musician, actor, idol), reality TV, influencers, retaking medical school entrance exams, politicians, a CEO's family, YouTubers, children of religious families, immigrants and mixed heritage, and yakuza.

Look back on your own life (20 questions)

Answer 20 questions to get a pixel-art timeline of your life, set beside statistics for people born in the same year and prefecture.

Three-scene card

Share your birth, the high point of your life and its end as three photo-like scenes on one card.

Move your records / add to home screen

Export your records to another device, or open the game like an app from your home screen.

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