Year Rings: Relive an Era

A life sim, one year per turn

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Explore 1978 Mainland China, 1965 Singapore and 1961 South Korea. Shape family, career and home, with eligible purchase credit toward an all-scenarios pass. What if you could live another life in a different era—and see where your choices lead? Year Rings is a life simulation set against real economic history. Build a career, care for your family, study, manage your health, and make simulated financial decisions as the world changes around you. EIGHT SCENARIOS, DIFFERENT LIVES Seven annual scenarios span America 1929–1989, Japan 1955–2015, Taiwan 1985–2045, Hong Kong 1997–2057, Mainland China 1978–2025, Singapore 1965–2025 and South Korea 1961–2021. A contemporary scenario, "2026: Present Tense", plays one Taiwanese year in 52 weekly turns. Experience the Great Depression, industrial growth, economic reform, financial crises and the technology era through personal choices. Historical research frames the events; prices, wages and outcomes also use simulation and interpolation. Future years are imagined, not forecasts. YOUR CHOICES REACH THE NEXT GENERATION Start from one of six social classes. Divide your time and money among work, study, family and health. Prepare for professional qualifications, support children through school and work, respond to relationship strain, and plan care for older relatives. At the end of a life, look back through the Life Review or continue through an eligible child. A HOUSEHOLD YOU CAN UNDERSTAND Read yearly reports of income, expenses, assets and debt. Manage separate homes and mortgages, see the rent saved by living in your own home, and give eligible property to adult children. Weigh business partnerships, health recovery and insurance within your household budget. DAILY LIFE, ONE REAL DAY AT A TIME Daily Life offers work, relationships and a simulated portfolio of 54 instruments, including U.S. and Taiwan indices, representative large-cap stocks and major FX pairs. Orders and settlement use the latest available demo closing price. This release uses local demo quotes, with no brokerage connection, real funds or real trades. FREE TO START Daily Life and the full "1990 Taiwan" scenario are free. Each of the six paid annual scenarios includes its first 10 in-game years free; "2026: Present Tense" includes its first 12 weeks. Optional one-time purchases unlock the rest. An all-scenarios pass unlocks current and future scenarios. Eligible verified scenario purchases can count toward the pass; availability, currency rules and the actual App Store price are shown before checkout. The three-scenario bundle covers America, Japan and Hong Kong only. Purchases can be restored with the same Apple Account. OPTIONAL STORIES AND AI The Special Elements Pack and Collector's Edition include Life Biography and the AI life companion. AI is off by default and requires iOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence available. On supported iOS 27 devices, it may use Apple's Private Cloud Compute, with on-device or template fallbacks. AI writes summaries and narration; it never makes your choices or changes the simulation. No ads or tracking. No game account is required, and saves remain on your device in this release. Year Rings is an entertainment simulation. Its stories and numerical models are not real financial or investment advice.

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• New scoring: your life is now scored against lives from the same era and origin. The review shows where you rank among peers, and the original five scores remain as your life data. Existing saves keep their original scoring. • Life goals: pick up to three era goals when you start, such as staying out of the 1989 mania or holding on through 2008. Yearly reports and the life review track which ones you achieve. • Challenge rules: Black Swan Era, Self-Made, Family Burden and Inflation Era. Each rule adds 5% to your official score. • Weekly challenge: no connection needed. Everyone gets the same seed, origin and rule each week, and your score goes to the weekly Game Center leaderboard. • Difficulty descriptions corrected: Realistic and Hardcore really do bring more misfortune and Easy brings less; the fast-forward note, which never existed in the game, is gone. • Echoes: each era scenario has 20 callback events — choices from years ago come back later in life. • Love and partners: date while single to raise your chance of a yes (shown when you propose); six spouse personalities each have upsides and costs; remarry after divorce or loss. • A classmate: someone born the same year into the same circumstances lives by the default choices. Year reports share their news and the life review compares your lives. • Visible odds: some choices now show the chance of things going well — choose first, see the result after. • Era endings and opportunities: each era has its own endings, with hints in the collection, and key years show an "era opportunity" on the main screen. • More stories: later-life events in the US and Hong Kong, and origin- and path-based stories in China, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. • Share cards now show the echoes and era ending of your life. • Seven new Game Center achievements: era endings, life goals, marrying after dating, challenge rules, beating your classmate, echoes.

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    Seller
    Wang LongWei
    Size
    112.5 MB
    Category
    Simulation
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 2 more
    • English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • 1961 South Korea (Full) $5.99
    • 1965 Singapore (Full) $5.99
    • 1978 Mainland China (Full) $5.99
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $0.99
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $0.29
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $0.99
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $3.99
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $6.99
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $9.99
    • All Scenarios Pass · Upgrade $9.99
    Copyright
    © 2026 Wang LongWei