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Retrolife
Life Simulator Through Real Decades
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Life Simulator Through Real Decades
7 followers
Live a whole life year by year in the real 1950sā2010s of the USA, Germany or the USSR. Real news, era prices, family and heirs. A text life sim for iPhone.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Roman, the solo developer behind Retrolife.
I wanted to make a life simulator where the history is real instead of random. You pick the USA, West Germany, East Germany or the Soviet Union and a birth year between 1950 and 2010, then live a whole life one year at a time: school, a first job, love, children, retirement. Every year brings that year's news and prices and wages in the money of the era.
I'm launching today because it is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the night of 9 November 1989 a teenager in East Berlin can sneak out to the border or stay and watch it on television, an adult has to be at work at six, and a child in the West watches the grown-ups cheer at the screen. You can live that night from the East or from the West and compare.
What's inside: more than 1,600 events, 39 careers, 22 Game Center achievements, a family that carries on through your heir, in English, German and Russian.
Pricing, plainly: the whole life is free, with no ads and no account, and it works offline. Without Premium you play with no waiting until the hero is 28, then 10 years at a time with a 12-hour wait. Premium is a one-time purchase, $5.99 in the US, not a subscription: no waiting, family wealth and character of your choice, a rewind of one year three times per life, any decade from the 1950s to the 2060s as the look of the game, and the chance to live a life again from the same year.
For the Product Hunt community: the code PRODUCTHUNT unlocks Premium forever (Menu ā Settings ā Redeem a code). It works for three days and the number of codes is limited.
iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6823533194?pt=95985443&ct=producthunt&mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koropets.retrolife&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dproducthunt%26utm_medium%3Dpost%26utm_campaign%3Dlaunch
I'd love your feedback: which year or country would you want to live first, and what is missing?