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- Category
- Games
- Age rating
- 12+
- Price
- Free
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Released
- Nov 9, 2026
- Last updated
- 9 Nov 2026
- Size
- 119.5 MB
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Languages
- 3
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What's newin version 1.0.4
The world of Retrolife just got bigger and more accurate. • 1,667 life stories — 141 more than before. Another 464 were rewritten, and 262 now fit the age, country and year more precisely: a six-year-old in the 1977 USSR queues for New Year mandarins only beside the grown-ups, and a home phone shows up only once homes really had one. • Actions now have 276 outcomes, a third more, and events offer almost 3,500 choices. • New actions: Go to the cinema and, in the USSR of 1965–1991, Hunt for scarce goods. • Pay off a mortgage or a cooperative flat early from your savings — the button is on the Assets screen. • If the year still has actions left, moving on asks first and takes you back to them in one tap. • A baby is possible only while the mother-to-be is between 18 and 44. • Pets get names typical of their country. • Fixed: a blank line on the pet card in older saves.
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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.