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Commerce · September 3, 2026

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Financial RPG — build empire, kill debt

What it does

Ledger & Life is a free top-down financial RPG where you walk through a living world and make real money decisions over 120 months to achieve financial freedom. Choose from 4 characters, battle debt bosses with financial decision cards, upgrade your home as your net worth grows, and learn real budgeting, debt payoff, and investing strategies while having fun. Built by someone paying off $53k in debt who wanted a better way to learn finances. Play free now!

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Ledger & Life is a free top-down financial strategy RPG where you control a character navigating real life money decisions over 120 months (10 years) to achieve financialfrom debtfreeempire.itch.io

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