Northway Games

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative life sim with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Released: 25 August 2022
Developer: Northway Games
Publisher: Finji
Engine: Unity
Perspective: Text
Age rating: PEGI 12 · ESRB T
Controller: Full controller support
Metacritic: 91/100
Steam recommendations: 4,362
Platforms: PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Mac · Nintendo Switch
Genres: Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Adventure · Indie · Visual Novel · Card & Board Game
Also known as: Exocolonist
Estimated owners: 200,000–500,000 (est.)

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Player rating: 24
Ratings counted: 96.3%
Steam reviews: 50
Achievements: 1
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Crossplay System requirements 4 GB RAM Download size 2.0 GB Steam Deck Verified

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

The story

Growing up in humanity's first extrasolar colony, you and your family are refugees from Earth flung into a new world of wonder and danger. You have your whole life ahead of you: Will you become an engineer and bring modern technology to this jurassic planet? Or cultivate the alien plants and live in harmony with exotic nature? Battle the massive beasts which rule Vertumna, or nurture future generations of humans? Your decisions matter; whether to study, learn to play an instrument, obey your parents or sneak out to explore the hazardous jungle. Adolescence is full of awkwardness and clumsy mistakes, but everything you learn will make you - and your colony - stronger. Your memories, decisions and friendships will be at your side when strife is near, becoming collectible cards used for everything from taking a math test to escaping the jaws of a wild snapbladder. A strange connection to an orbiting wormhole causes you to remember events from your past lives. It'll take many lives to find every ending and ultimately a way to save both your colony and the planet.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist