Games like 1 in 8 Billion, with a throne
Your Empire is a free browser game that keeps the random start, the one life and the look back at the end, and swaps an ordinary life for a ruler's
Free, in your browser on desktop and phone. Guest play, no download
Your Empire is a free browser game with the same basic shape as 1 in 8 Billion: a random start, one life lived until it ends, pause and speed controls and a summary at the end. The seat is different. In 1 in 8 Billion you live one person's life built on real statistics from 172 countries. In Your Empire you rule an invented empire on a map of 4,396 real cities, through a life of 60 to 100 years
Your Empire is an independent game. It is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by 1 in 8 Billion or its operator. 1 in 8 Billion and 1in8b are names used by their owners, and this page uses no logos or screenshots from the game
1 in 8 Billion (also written 1in8b) is a free life simulation that runs in the browser, and it is still in beta. You are born at random as one of the world's people and live that single life to its end, using real statistics from 172 countries, with sources such as the UN, the World Bank and the WHO
You choose how long a session lasts (about 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1.5 hours), pause or speed time up to 16x, set a focus for each year and answer decisions about school, work, love, moving abroad and medical care. Four meters track health, happiness, knowledge and relationships, and at ages 5, 15, 30, 50 and 70 the game stops to ask you one reflective question
It went viral in October 2026 and is known as 80億分の1 in Japan, 80억 분의 1 in Korea and 1 sur 8 milliards in France. Players say it made them cry. People who finish one life often want to play another, and that is what this page is for
If you want more of the same, 1 in 8 Billion is the place for it. Your Empire changes the seat
You play the ruler of a fantasy empire. Empires, peoples, rulers and faiths are invented, with names that sound like no real language. Only the cities are real: 4,396 of them, with their real borders, so every patch of land belongs to someone
More than 8,500 events in 23 kinds, from coups and plagues to prophets and comets. Event texts are drama with dark humor, so a starving city and a very bad idea can share a paragraph. A 50-year reign meets about 150 to 250 of them
Neighbors attack, your commanders propose invasions, a prophet founds a faith in your country and an event may offer you a parliament or a revolution. Every other empire is run by a bot, so great powers rise and fall without a script
A ruler lives 60 to 100 years. At normal speed one real minute is one game year, so a game takes 1 to 2 hours, and the server keeps it so you can close the tab and come back from your phone
Every ruler dies, and the reign is judged: people, land, wars, the rarest facts and an epithet earned by your choices. The final card is an image made for social media, and leaderboards rank the best reigns
Your Empire is not built on real statistics about people. It will not tell you how many children are born in your country, and it has no reflective questions at set ages. If that side of 1 in 8 Billion is what stayed with you, that game is the right place for it. Your Empire is the other thing: a story about power that you get to mess up
Pause it, speed it up and see what a crown does to a life
Free, in your browser on desktop and phone. Guest play, no download
Facts about 1 in 8 Billion come from its official site as of October 2026 and may change while the game is in beta
| Your Empire and 1 in 8 Billion side by side | 1 in 8 Billion | Your Empire |
|---|---|---|
| Who you play | A person born at random into one of the world's people | A ruler of an invented empire, young, a man or a woman by chance |
| Where it comes from | Real statistics from 172 countries (UN, World Bank, WHO and others) | Only the 4,396 cities and their borders are real. Empires, rulers and faiths are invented |
| The start | A random birth | A random country, 2 to 5 real neighboring cities and a random ruler |
| One life | Yes, lived to its end | Yes, 60 to 100 years, ends with the ruler's death |
| Session length | You pick about 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1.5 hours | 1 to 2 hours. One real minute is one game year, and you can resume any time |
| Pause and speed | Pause, 1x up to 16x | Pause, x1, x2, x5, x10 |
| What you do | Set a focus for each year and answer decisions about school, work, love, moving abroad and medical care | Choose one of 2 to 6 options in events, the only input |
| What you watch | Four meters: health, happiness, knowledge, relationships | A top bar with treasury, population, army, stability, age and year, and arrows for immediate effects |
| Tone | Reflective, with a question at ages 5, 15, 30, 50 and 70, and an option to leave out frightening scenes | Drama with dark humor: wars, plots, plagues and faiths |
| The ending | The life ends and can be shared | A final card with an epithet, a chronicle of the reign and leaderboards |
| Languages | 16 | English now, 12 more being added |
| Price and platform | Free, in the browser (beta) | Free, in the browser on desktop and phone, no purchases in the current version |
Facts checked on 27 October 2026 against each game's official page or store listing. Prices and features change, so confirm on the official page
The quickest way to compare is one reign. It takes an hour or two, and you can pause whenever you like
Free, in your browser on desktop and phone. Guest play, no download
you want an ordinary life based on real data, a session you can size to your evening and questions that make you stop
you want to hold power for once, with wars, plots and reforms, a map of real cities and jokes in the dark
you like asking two different questions: what is it like to be anyone, and what would you do with a crown
BitLife, Reigns, Crusader Kings III, Tropico 6 and Spent each fill a different gap. We wrote a fair paragraph about each one
Games with a similar shape follow one character through a life. Your Empire does it for a ruler of an invented empire in the browser, BitLife does it for an ordinary person on phones, Reigns and Crusader Kings III do it for monarchs, and Spent covers one month of money trouble. The similar games page has an honest paragraph on each
The game's own site is 1in8b.life, and 1in8b is its short name. Several look-alike sites use similar names, so check the address before you play. Your Empire is a separate game at yourempire.cc and is not affiliated with it
Yes. In Your Empire you rule an invented empire on a map of 4,396 real cities, from a young ruler's first year to the day the ruler dies. You choose how to handle 3 to 5 events a year and the world answers. Reigns, Crusader Kings III and Tropico 6 also put you in charge, in other ways
No to both. Your Empire is an independent game with no link to 1 in 8 Billion. It does not use real statistics about people either: only the cities and their borders are real, while empires, rulers and religions are invented
Yes to both. Your Empire runs in the browser on desktop and phone with no download, you can play as a guest with a nickname, and the current version has no purchases
A game of Your Empire takes 1 to 2 hours. At normal speed one real minute is one game year, and a ruler lives 60 to 100 years. 1 in 8 Billion lets you pick about 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1.5 hours. Your Empire has no such setting, but you can pause, run at x2, x5 or x10, and come back later because the server keeps your game
It is a different mood. 1 in 8 Billion is reflective and built on real statistics, and players say it made them cry. Your Empire is drama with dark humor: wars, plagues and plots happen, but they are written to be a little absurd. The ruler still dies, and the final card and the chronicle look back at the reign
English is the source language. Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, French, German, Japanese, Arabic, Indonesian, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese are being added, and anything not yet translated shows in English. 1 in 8 Billion offers 16 languages, so for some languages it is the better fit today
Facts checked on 27 October 2026 against each game's official page or store listing. Prices and features change, so confirm on the official page
Your Empire is an independent game. It is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by any game on this page. The names belong to their owners, and this page uses no logos or screenshots from them
This one has a crown, a treasury that is never quite full and an heir you do not trust
Free, in your browser on desktop and phone. Guest play, no download
