Sapa: Naija Survival Simulator

Watch a life go by.

29 seconds, with sound.

Every year, a new decision.

Sapa is a text game about one life in Nigeria. You live it one year at a time.

Press +1 year
One year goes by. The life log tells you what it did to you.
Answer what life brings
Sometimes life stops and asks. It is project defence day. Do you defend with confidence, rehearse with a friend, or submit and pray?

Age 14 End of term report

Dad reads the report twice, removes his glasses, cleans them, reads it again.

The life log at age 25. Some lines of the year have a green highlight. Below the log are six bars, from Happiness to Fame, and the +1 year button.

A decision at age 22, with the title Project defence. The supervisor asks who wrote the report. The three answers are: Defend with confidence, Rehearse with a friend, Submit and pray.

23 ways to make it.

There are 23 career ladders. Each rung asks for something first, like an age or some fame. Apply when the table is in your favour.

Football
Music
Tech
Medicine
Law
Politics
Trade
Farming
Transport
and more

Age 16 Pressure at home

Pressure is how diamonds are formed. You are not a diamond.

The Work screen with the Music ladder. The rungs go from Street freestyle up to Label boss. A yellow mark says You are here beside the rung Star, which pays 455 million naira a year.

Family will call.

When you start to earn, relatives call and ask for money. Let it ring, say you have none, send half or send everything.

You can marry and raise children too. The People screen shows how close each of them is to you.

Age 25 The roof is crying

Mum: 'The rain is coming and the roof has started to cry.'

The People screen: Mum and Dad, two brothers, a wife and three children. Each person has a closeness number and a green bar.

An incoming call from Mum. She says the roof has started to cry and that zinc and a carpenter cost 76,000 naira. The four answers are: Let it ring, Say you have none, Send half, Send everything.

How will your story end?

One day the life ends. A burial programme tells your life back to you: the ladders you climbed, the house you built, the people you left behind.

Each life ends with one ribbon. There are 50 to collect.

Age 73 Celebration of life

Joseph died at home, shouting at a referee on TV.

The burial programme of Chief Patron Joseph Ogbonna, 2026 to 2099, aged 73. It tells his careers, his house, his five children and how he died. Below it are the buttons Share and Start a new life.

Good to know

FreeEvery path, event and ribbon.
OfflineA life plays with no network.
No accountYour lives stay on your phone.
50 ribbonsEach life ends with one.
A challenge each weekEvery player gets the same start.

About money

On iPhone there is one optional purchase, called Odogwu. It adds a custom start, three more save slots and a frame for the share card. It gives no advantage in a challenge.