# Deathday

> Live a whole 20th-century life in five minutes, one historical card at a time.

Deathday is a text-based historical life simulator where you are born in 1900 in one of ten real places and live through the century in about five minutes. Each card brings a historical event and two choices, and every run ends with a tombstone you can share.

## Key facts

- Developer: cheapsnack: https://unfoundgames.in/studios/cheapsnack
- Released: About September 2026
- Genre: Life Sim
- Tags: Story-Rich, Emotional, Learn Something, Daily, Short, Works on Phones
- Platforms: Web Browser
- Price: Free
- Session: about 5 minutes
- Players: Single-player
- AI use: The developer's Ko-fi bio calls them 'just another AI slop maker'.
- Languages: English
- Unfound score: not scored yet (we score a game only after a full playtest)
- Play in browser: https://deathday.online/
- website: https://deathday.online/

## Why Deathday is on Unfound

A top post of the past year on r/WebGames and a strong thesis fit: a short card-choice format pointed at real 20th-century social history, with sourced events and region-calibrated mortality.

What players say:
- Top post of the past year on r/WebGames (#94) · 18 upvotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/1wipcec/deathday_a_fiveminute_historical_life_simulator/
- Introduced by its developer on r/playmygame · 30 upvotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/playmygame/comments/1whybjy/deathday_born_in_1900_five_minutes_in_and/

Highlights:
- Ten real birthplaces across five continents
- Events sourced to historians and archives
- Daily, 90-second blitz and unlimited free-play modes

Keep in mind:
- Heavy themes: famine, war and early death are the point
- Text-based, so expect reading rather than action
- Made with AI tools, going by the developer's own Ko-fi bio

## About Deathday

Pick a birthplace, from Bengal and Galicia to the Ohio Valley, Shandong, São Paulo, the Gold Coast and the Uzbek SSR, and a second child is born the same night a few houses away. Year by year, cards bring wars, famines, migrations and policy changes, and you choose between two responses. There are no stats, points or difficulty settings.

The page says every card is sourced to a historian or archive and that death rates match each region's real 1900 life expectancy, so where you're born shapes how long you're likely to last. A daily mode gives everyone the same birth, a blitz mode runs a century in 90 seconds, and free play is unlimited. It's for history readers who want to feel how much a birthplace decided a life.

## FAQ

### Is Deathday free?

Yes. It's free in the browser, with no sign-up or download.

### Is Deathday based on real history?

Yes. The page says each card is sourced to a real historian or archive and each region's death rates are calibrated to its actual 1900 life expectancy.

### How long does a game of Deathday take?

About five minutes for a full century; blitz mode compresses it to around 90 seconds.

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Source: https://unfoundgames.in/games/deathday. Checked by Unfound Editors, last checked 2026-10-23.