Any Human Ever

What is Any Human Ever?

Any Human Ever draws one random life out of the more than 100 billion people estimated to have ever lived. It builds each life in stages, starting with a birth year and a location, then presents a story based on real population data. The result is a quick, data-driven glimpse at an imaginary but plausible human life.

Editor takes

Finally, a gacha where the real endgame is collecting lives across all of history—gotta draw 'em all, and the gallery proves it.

Perfect for a commute: one tap and you're reading a stranger's whole life while you wait for the train to move.

The best clue here is 'a year, a place, a life'—three words that open a story, and I'd fill that in with pen.

How to play Any Human Ever

Choose “Draw a random life” to begin. At each step, you can accept the randomly selected birth year and location or redraw until you want to continue. After the life is drawn, you can read the story, share it, or save it to a gallery of up to 100 lives.

Tips & strategy

• Redraw freely: each step (year, location, life) can be rerolled if you want a different starting point.
• Keep in mind that random births skew recent because of exponential population growth, so very old dates are rarer.
• Save interesting lives to your gallery; it holds 100 lives, so you may need to remove one later.
• If a story feels off, redraw the life within the same year and location for a new result.
• Share a life if you want to show a particular combination to someone else.

Frequently asked questions

Where to play

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