Retrolife: Life Simulator

Be born in 1950, 1975 or 2010. Grow up in the USA, in West or East Germany, or in the Soviet Union, and live a whole life, one real year at a time. Retrolife is a text life simulator set in the real decades of real countries. Every year brings that year's news, illustrated, and the small things people actually lived with: the first home computer, the cooperatives of the late Soviet years, the night the Berlin Wall came down. A LIFE, YEAR BY YEAR • Pick a country and a birth year from 1950 to 2010 • School, the army or alternative service, college or trade school, your first job, love, children, retirement • 39 careers with real steps up the ladder • Prices and wages in the money of the year: dollars, Deutsche Marks, East German marks, rubles, euros • More than 1,400 life events with choices that change your health, happiness, money and the people around you REAL HISTORY AS YOUR BACKDROP • Real news of every year, with illustrations • Historical turning points: the first man in space, the missile crisis, the Wall going up and coming down, the 1991 coup, the dot-com crash, the 2008 crisis. What they mean for you depends on how old you are • Life does not stop at today: future eras run up to the 2060s YOUR FAMILY, YOUR DYNASTY • When you die, your heir carries the family on • A family tree that grows across generations • Echoes of the past: something from your childhood comes back decades later GOALS, KEEPSAKES, FRIENDS • Life goals and a challenge of the week • A yearbook, a life chart, an album and a passport of eras • A tear-off calendar with a page for every day you play • "Live it better than me": share a life code and let a friend start the same life • Postcards to share your story • Music for every decade FAIR AND OFFLINE • Free to play: every country and every decade. Premium is a one-time purchase, no subscription • No ads • Plays fully offline, no account needed • Premium adds: no waiting for more years, a choice of family wealth and character, rewinding a year, and the style of any era Retro risograph-style illustrations. Play in English, German or Russian. Rated 13+: romance, light crime, occasional alcohol and tobacco. History is shown through everyday life.