# Retrolife: Life Simulator — Growing Up in Real History

> Growing Up in Real History (iPhone/iPad app by Roman Koropets.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retrolife-life-simulator/id6823533194 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Roman Koropets](https://appshunter.io/developer/887759194)
- Category: Games, Role Playing, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 119 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), Russian
- Released: 2026-11-09
- Data updated: 2026-11-01

## What is Retrolife?

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.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retrolife Premium | $5.99 | one-time |


## Is Retrolife safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Retrolife.

## Is Retrolife legit?

Retrolife: Life Simulator appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Retrolife is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-09

No release notes.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-11-09

• Pick your exact birth year when you start a life
• The yearbook shows how many stories you have discovered
• Tips and cards no longer cover events
• New illustrations for sports and outdoor stories
• A new app icon
• Smoother performance and bug fixes

### 1.0.2 — 2026-11-09

• Optimized for iPhone Duo: the game fills both the outer and the inner display
• Event cards and the start screens fit better on short screens

### 1.0.3 — 2026-11-01

• Schulden lassen sich jetzt abbezahlen: Ein Teil des Einkommens geht zuerst an sie, und die Zinsen stehen auf dem Geld-Bildschirm.
• Code einlösen: Aktionscodes direkt im Menü eingeben.
• Geteilte Karten enthalten jetzt einen Link zur Website des Spiels.
• Der Lebensstart nutzt durchgehend eine Schrift, die Knöpfe springen nicht mehr.
• Textkorrekturen auf Deutsch und Russisch.

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