I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Northway Games · 2022 · Choices Matter, Life Sim, Dating Sim, Deckbuilding, Visual Novel
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive96% · 4,34291Metacritic
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About I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
✦ AI summary
Build a life on an alien colony where every choice shapes your future and those around you, earning collectible memory cards that unlock new possibilities across multiple lifetimes. With 800+ story events, dozens of endings, and the mystery of why you keep remembering past lives, this beautifully hand-painted adventure blends coming-of-age storytelling with strategic card gameplay.
The Choices You Make, Make You.
Growing up in humanity’s first extrasolar space colony means navigating a new world full of wonder, danger, and beauty. Explore the wilderness, study, fall in love, discover strange creatures, and deal with the consequences of your actions. Your choices will directly affect the lives of your friends and the fate of the colony. What kind of world will you help make? Will you survive to enjoy it? Why do you remember doing this before?
Growing Up on an Alien Planet
You have your whole life ahead of you. Will you spend it studying in school, or diving into the intriguing flora and fauna of this new world? Will you introduce space-age technology, or live in harmony with nature? Will you battle massive beasts, or nurture future generations? Realized in brilliant watercolor, the world of Vertumna is yours to explore.
Your Pasts and Your Futures Matter
Everything you learn and experience will make you and your colony stronger. You will thrive and you will make mistakes. These formative moments - your memories, decisions, and friendships - become collectible cards you carry with you. Each season brings new obstacles on Vertumna. The battle cards you earn from your experiences give you new options for overcoming these challenges, whether that is navigating relationships, learning new skills, exploring the planet, or staying alive. Every decision counts, during this life and the next.
How Many Lives Will YOU Live?
The cosmos is full of incredible mysteries, and your ability to remember your past lives is one of them. There are dozens of different endings to your story. How many lives will it take to save both your colony and the planet? Are you ready to wake up again?
Features:
Growing up in humanity’s first extrasolar space colony means navigating a new world full of wonder, danger, and beauty. Explore the wilderness, study, fall in love, discover strange creatures, and deal with the consequences of your actions. Your choices will directly affect the lives of your friends and the fate of the colony. What kind of world will you help make? Will you survive to enjoy it? Why do you remember doing this before?
Growing Up on an Alien Planet
You have your whole life ahead of you. Will you spend it studying in school, or diving into the intriguing flora and fauna of this new world? Will you introduce space-age technology, or live in harmony with nature? Will you battle massive beasts, or nurture future generations? Realized in brilliant watercolor, the world of Vertumna is yours to explore.
Your Pasts and Your Futures Matter
Everything you learn and experience will make you and your colony stronger. You will thrive and you will make mistakes. These formative moments - your memories, decisions, and friendships - become collectible cards you carry with you. Each season brings new obstacles on Vertumna. The battle cards you earn from your experiences give you new options for overcoming these challenges, whether that is navigating relationships, learning new skills, exploring the planet, or staying alive. Every decision counts, during this life and the next.
How Many Lives Will YOU Live?
The cosmos is full of incredible mysteries, and your ability to remember your past lives is one of them. There are dozens of different endings to your story. How many lives will it take to save both your colony and the planet? Are you ready to wake up again?
Features:
- Use memories of past lives to explore 800+ story events.
- Discover more than 250 battle cards as you grow up on an alien planet.
- Play your best hand in challenge encounters to ace your math test or escape from a wild snapbladder.
- Make friends, fight with your parents, go on dates, fall in love, and save the colony.
- 29 wildly different endings based on the choices you make each month.
- Pick from 25 colony jobs, like goofing off as a depot clerk, or surveying the valley.
- Grow into 15 skills, including bravery, toughness, organization, and empathy.
- Get to know 10 dateable characters, including dog-boys, aliens, hot politicians and stone cold killers.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
After beating this game, I cannot in sound mind recommend it. The game takes place over 10 years and of those years the first 4 are the only ones that don't breeze by with no weight. I LOVED the first 4 years and honestly, year 4 feels like the climax of the story. There's actual meaning to your time and you need to be really on top of what you do and what stats you have, what you're unlocking, and how much you're exploring and succeeding at the end of it is incredibly satisfying. HOWEVER, after that, nothing seems to matter as much. I got a good ending passively, I just picked up colony defence points as I went through the game and ended up being rewarded with 6 paragraphs telling me how I won the big battle with no real threat. I was so unsatisfied by this that I turned the game off without reading the ending stuff. the next day I came back and reloaded the whole year. I was still disappointed. After year 17, it feels like you're spoon-fed every way to beat the game while also having no idea how to get there, and only one feels like it would be in any way climactic but I honestly can't be bothered to go back again. None of the characters have any kind of development, they're …1 found this helpful
Good writing and fun lil stat raising game, I enjoyed that multiple playthroughs could feel different but will say some character / routes seemed heavily favored based on attention and complexity they had.
An overall good game. Fun gameplay, gorgeous art, compelling storyline. However, the romance is rather lackluster, and while the game is designed for replayability, even by your second playthrough things become tedious and boring as not enough changes to keep things new and refreshing. I'd recommend you play this game as long as you're not buying it mainly for the romance/dating-sim elements. 8/10
I love it
I really loved this game. Despite the name of it, it's actually quite serious and really well explored setting and story, and every ending I got made me want to fight more to do more on the next playthrough. A+ writing and storytelling, a very addictive stat building/princess maker type visual novel =)
it was fun but also bittersweet
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