Retirement is a distant thing for young people, but recently young people seem to want to "retire early": don't want to work overtime, hate to go out and squeeze the subway, don't bother to find a partner, save money to buy a house, and don't count me. This kind of lying flat, mourning culture, and Buddhist culture is not exactly the Buddhist mentality of the old man who should retire at an old age.
"As long as I lie fast enough and flat enough, it's also an early retirement." This is not, even a domestic team has developed a "retirement simulator", specifically simulating the retirement life of the elderly to play for young people, many young players heard that they can "retire", the expectation value is immediately full.
Some people say that criticizing such young people for losing their goals and fighting spirit is a kind of self-denial that they must not be denied: "Young people can admit their fate, but they can't lie flat." "There are also people who try to excuse young people, believing that society is too inward-looking and that the uneven distribution of resources forces young people to choose to escape."
But for most young people, this kind of flattening is actually more of a "psychological massage": completely empty the anxiety accumulated at work, turn a deaf ear to all kinds of bad things in life, play games and brush dramas every day, and by the way, imagine and envision the retirement life of idle and idle clouds and wild cranes.
In response to this kind of longing for "retirement life" lying flat mentality of many young people, the domestic independent game development team Rethinking Studio has specially developed the "Retirement Simulator" to give young people the right medicine. Real life makes it impossible for us to really lie flat, but "Retirement Simulator" can really make you "retire" for a short time.
Since it is a simulator game that "everything can be simulated", the main gameplay of "Retirement Simulator" is naturally based on simulation. The producer "painstakingly" designed a "retiree cultivation plan": the player's daily action schedule will have different effects on the attributes of the protagonist, Fang Aiju. For example, calligraphy will increase Fang Aiju's temperament, painting will increase aesthetics, chess will affect thinking; choosing various part-time jobs will consume the mood to get paid; spending money to buy gifts is the main means of communication, sons, granddaughters, community ma sisters and a group of people waiting for players to please. In the course of the game, the community will regularly hold some painting and song and dance competitions to test whether the player's cultivated uncle is versatile. When the initial attributes are not enough, the result of the game is often one-sided criticism and extremely insulting.
The game provides a variety of character cultivation routes, making yourself a wanderer or a daily fan of the Internet celebrity, or becoming a new era ip man single-mindedly passing on martial arts, all determined by the player's usual activity arrangements.
In addition to the relatively high degree of freedom of simulation, "Retirement Simulator" also has a very strong role-playing content. The game has a very clear "against the black heart real estate developers to defend the community" main line and several side stories, the player also has dozens of characters including relatives, neighbors, former colleagues, etc., in the story has a very important role. Of course, players have the freedom to choose whether or not to experience the story.
In addition to giving young people the opportunity to experience a real "lying flat" retirement, another implication of the producer's development of "Retirement Simulator" is that he hopes to have an opportunity for young people to empathize with the elderly through the game, hoping that young people can really care about the life and psychological state of the retired elderly around them.
As for whether playing "Retirement Simulator" has met your expectations for a "lying flat" life, today the early access version of the game is officially launched on Steam, to experience the experience to draw your conclusion.