FutureTopia is a free app from Purple Planet about the big stuff nobody really explains: picking work that fits you, and making money work for you instead of the other way around. Everything lives in one place, futuretopia.app, and the parts work together.
Two-minute animated stories about Fadal's first years on Floor 47. You make the choice at the end of each one.
Each episode becomes a month of your own life. Split your pay, sail the sea chart, and watch your boat grow from a life ring to a ship.
The Break Room game. Stop Professor Zuldarr's robot sea creatures from stealing the world's sunken treasure.
Go to futuretopia.app. The home page has three big buttons: ▶ Watch the episodes ⛵ Play FutureTopia Dr. Diggs.
The episodes and the game are two halves of one story. In the game's Story mode, every episode becomes a month of your own life, with your own money on the line. You can start with either one.
After you choose at the end of an episode, tap Live it in FutureTopia ⛵. Your choice comes with you: the money moves, your meters move, and some choices come back months later as echoes.
When your game reaches an episode's month, a bar above the card offers ▶ Watch Episode 3 (about two minutes). Watching is encouraged, never required. When you come back, your month picks up on the same card.
Choose in the episode first, and the game card says "You chose A in Episode 2" with that option outlined in gold. Choose differently in the game, and the episode remembers: next time it says "In your FutureTopia game, you chose B." Every episode keeps one choice.
The episodes page shows Your FutureTopia game: month 7, Canoe with a button to continue, and each episode card shows You chose C. In the game, ▶ Episodes sits next to Payday, and each episode's log links to its Learn more page.
futuretopia.app/episodes · short animated stories, about two minutes each
FadalAbout 22, brand-new budget analyst. That's you.
Norman FizzywigCareer mentor, counting the days to retirement.
Nicole MaloneMoney mentor, an engineer who rarely looks up.
Nate PlanterSpends everything. Has a very big truck.
David BeetheadVP of Protocol. Always. Follow. Protocol.| Season | What it's about |
|---|---|
| 1 · Year One | The first job, the first credit card, the first paycheck (Episodes 1–8) |
| 2 · On Your Own | An apartment, an emergency, a credit score, and Nate finally asking for help (9–18) |
| 3 · Money That Works | Investing, a market crash, a layoff, a counteroffer, and someone new (19–28) |
| 4 · Build Something | A side business, burnout, a big question, and Norman's last day (29–38) |
Each episode is a motion comic: painted panels with camera moves, characters who pop in, and speech bubbles that type out line by line. Episodes with recorded voices play the audio, and every spoken line also appears on screen.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| ▶ Play | Starts the episode once it has loaded. |
| Tap the picture | Skips ahead. If a line is still typing, the first tap finishes it and the next tap moves on. |
| ⟲ Back | Goes back one panel (hidden on very small screens; use the Left Arrow key on a computer). |
| ❚❚ / ▶ | Pause and resume. |
| 1× | Playback speed: 1×, 1.25× or 1.5×. Voices speed up too. Remembered for next time. |
| 🔊 / 🔇 | Sound on or off. Remembered for next time. |
| ✕ | Back to all episodes. |
| Dots at the bottom | One dot per panel, so you can see how far along you are. |
On a computer: Space Enter or → skip ahead · ← goes back one panel.
Near the end of every episode, Fadal faces a decision: A, B or C. There are no wrong answers. Every option has a real upside. Pick one and a short scene shows what happens.
Every episode has a short page with the real-life version: The short version, Run the numbers (example math), Try it this week (one small thing to do), and Go deeper links to free government and non-profit sites. We don't sell anything and we aren't paid for links.
Open You at 30 from the top of the episodes page, or tap 🚚 See yourself at 30 after Episode 6. Change the numbers (your age, the truck payment, the used-car price, an example yearly return) and compare two futures side by side.
Everything is worked out on your device; nothing is sent anywhere. Example only: returns aren't guaranteed, and the math leaves out insurance, gas and repairs.
futuretopia.app/play · the money game, set on Purple Planet's open water
FutureTopia turns the show into a game you live month by month. Every paycheck is a turn. Your choices echo for years, and your boat on the sea chart is the scoreboard. A visit takes 3 to 10 minutes, and the game saves after every month.
| Jar | What goes in it | Under the jar |
|---|---|---|
 Needs | Rent, food, gas, the bills that keep the lights on. Put in less than your bills and the rest goes on a card. | Your bills this month |
 Fun | Joy money. Subscriptions are paid from here first, so they quietly eat your fun. | Experiences, or what your subscriptions cost |
 Cushion | Your emergency fund. Surprise costs come out of here first. Money you don't place lands here. | Months of bills saved |
 Debt | Minimum payments first, then extra goes to the highest interest rate. Miss a minimum and your hull gets a hole. | This month's minimums |
 Sails | Investing. Once your job offers a 401(k) match, the match is added for free. | What's invested, or the match |
A mentor may add one line while you plan: Nicole about money, Norman about life. If your bills plus minimums are more than your pay, Set sail shows how much comes out of your Cushion this month.
| Meter | What it measures | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
 Net worth | What you own minus what you owe. | A student loan starts you below zero. That's normal. |
 Cushion | Months of bills you could pay with no paycheck. | The first step up for your boat. |
 Credit | A simplified 300–850 score: paying on time, how much of your card limit you use, how long you've had credit, new accounts. | Shows new until you have credit and building for your first six months. Updates a month late, like the real thing. |
 Energy | Your time and stress. | Run out and you burn out: a rest month with no events. |
 Joy | A good life, not just a rich one. Fun money keeps it up; it drifts down on its own. | Things give a short spike; experiences last. |
 Crew | Your people: Nate, family, friends on Floor 47. | Showing up for people keeps it up. |
Tap any meter on the chart for a one-line explanation.
Boats unlock on cash flow and cushion, not on how rich you look. Step back below a rule and your boat slips back a stage until you fix it.
Treading waterThe start, or high-interest debt bigger than savings
PaddleboardOne month of bills in the Cushion
CanoeNo high-interest debt + 3 months of Cushion
SailboatInvesting 3 months in a row, and expected returns reach 5% of your pay
MotorboatExpected returns reach half of your spending
ShipExpected returns cover your spending. Room to carry others.
Some choices come back later, named with the month they came from: "Echo · from month 6." Take the card with autopay and an apartment may skip your deposit a year later. The game never says which choice was right.
Some options start a 30-second mini-game. Fine Print Hunt: tap the hidden fees and traps in a contract before time runs out. Scam or Legit: swipe messages left for scam, right for real. Doing well can save you money. Losing never ends your run. Practice both anytime from your binder. More mini-games are on the way.
Every 12 months: your numbers, your barnacles (scrape off forgotten subscriptions), your sticky notes, and your Freedom score so far.
Tap the sticky-note button on the chart for your notes from each episode, mini-game practice, and every choice you've made.
The Break Room game · in the app, at drdiggs.net, and coming to iPhone and Android
Professor Zuldarr was a brilliant professor of robotics until he was fired for building robots for evil. Now he roams the oceans with an army of robot sea creatures, stealing the world's protected sunken treasure.
The World Archaeological Federation calls Dr. Diggs, deep-sea archaeologist and expert digger. He dives to each site and builds a defense before the robots arrive. Your job: help him keep every coin.
| Tower | Cost | What it's good at | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Harpoon | 60 | Cheap, quick single shots. Can hit manta rays. |
 | Ink gun | 65 | Slows robots down. Can't hit mantas; eels and squid ignore ink. |
 | Coral castle | 15 | Blocks a square so robots walk the long way. Can't be destroyed. Upgrades add a small attack. |
 | Cannon | 110 | Splash damage for groups. Can't hit mantas. |
 | Bunker | 60 | Tough: robots can't destroy it. It shoots back, too. |
 | Stun gun | 95 | Stuns a small area. Stunned robots can't shoot. |
 | Torpedo | 130 | Long range. Hunts the toughest robot. |
| Robot | Watch out for | |
|---|---|---|
 | Little crab | Weak, but it shoots your towers. A couple of harpoons near the entrance handle a swarm. |
 | Medium crab | Slow, with a hard shell. Slow it with ink and keep firing. |
 | Big crab | Harpoons bounce off. Bring cannons and torpedoes. |
 | Eel | Fast and ignores ink. Stun it or out-damage it. |
 | Large shrimp | Tough and slow. Make the path long with coral castles. |
 | Small shrimp | Tiny, fast, in swarms. Harpoons and cannons; a torpedo is wasted on these. |
 | Squid | Squirts its own ink, so yours does nothing. Cannons work. |
 | Manta ray | Flies over castles. Ink and cannons can't aim up; harpoons, stun guns and torpedoes can. |
 | Drone sub | Boss of Dive 5. Lots of armor: stun it and pile on everything you have. |
 | Prof. Zuldarr | Final boss, Dive 10. He came himself. Save Dig for when he gets close. |
Robots shoot back and can wreck most towers, but every tower is repaired at the start of each wave. Tap a robot in the Next wave preview to read its tip. 🛡 means your current towers can't hurt it.
Tap the round DIG button, then tap the path. Diggs pops up and hits every walking robot nearby (it can't reach flying mantas) and stuns them for 2 seconds. The gold ring refills in 30 seconds.
From Dive 3, before waves 2 to 5 you Pick a boost from three cards: a treasure map (+75 coins), sharper harpoons, thicker ink, a bigger cannon blast, longer stuns, faster torpedoes, tougher bunkers, or Diggs's coffee (Dig recharges faster). The wave waits while you choose.
Tap a tower and choose First (closest to the treasure, the default), Strongest (the torpedo's default) or Closest (to the tower).
| # | Dive | Where | New this dive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pirate ship | Caribbean Sea | Harpoon, ink gun |
| 2 | Titanic | North Atlantic | Coral castle |
| 3 | Three-mouth cave | Pacific coast, South America | Cannon · boost cards begin |
| 4 | Reef | Great Barrier Reef | Bunker |
| 5 | Volcano | Undersea volcano, Pacific | Stun gun · Boss: the drone sub |
| 6 | Stone army | East China Sea | Torpedo (all seven towers) |
| 7 | Cargo ship | Lake Superior | Manta rays |
| 8 | WWII sub | Arctic Ocean | Three entrances. The toughest dive. |
| 9 | Steamboat | Cape of Good Hope | Three entrances |
| 10 | Greek temple | Aegean Sea | Three entrances · Final boss: Zuldarr |
Stars: ★★★ = no treasure lost · ★★ = 5 or fewer lost · ★ = a win. Win a dive to open the next. Each dive also has an optional challenge (for example, "Win with 4 towers or fewer"). After Dive 2 you unlock the Daily dive (the same dive for everyone that day), and beating Zuldarr unlocks Endless.
Dive 5, the volcano. The drone sub is the first boss.
Open Settings on the title screen (or from the pause menu): Music, Sound effects, Vibration, Reduce motion (stops screen shake), and Captions Off / S / M / L. Diggs's and Zuldarr's lines always appear as captions unless you turn them off.
Dr. Diggs in the Break Room and at drdiggs.net has no ads, ever. The standalone phone app is also free and pays for itself with ads:
Nobody gets every choice right. Fadal doesn't, Nate definitely doesn't, and even Nicole had a few storms. The point of FutureTopia is to try things where mistakes are free, so the real ones get smaller.
FutureTopia, Purple Planet and Dr. Diggs © 2026 CVEP, LLC. Characters © Jason Bennecke. All rights reserved.
This guide describes the FutureTopia app as of November 2026. More seasons and features are on the way; the in-app Help always has the latest version.