Indie

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

96% positive of 4,459 Steam reviews

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Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, GOG, Epic, PlayStation, itch.io

Made by Northway Games. Published by Finji.

About the game

What sets it apart

Deckbuilding
Life Sim
Dating Sim
LGBTQ+
Card Game
Choose Your Own Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Choices Matter
Futuristic
Multiple Endings
Visual Novel
Sci-fi

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Indie

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

96% positive of 4,459 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, GOG, Epic, PlayStation, itch.io

Made by Northway Games. Published by Finji.

About the game

What sets it apart

Deckbuilding
Life Sim
Dating Sim
LGBTQ+
Card Game
Choose Your Own Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Choices Matter
Futuristic
Multiple Endings
Visual Novel
Sci-fi

What players say

Recommended
While this is a fun, well-crafted game, I feel this game does not succeed on all fronts, and any recommendation needs to be clear about genre. Personally, this was less of a "choices matter" roleplaying game and more of a digital boardgame with some narrative and dating-sim elements. What I mean by this is that while there is a story to discover, you aren't really playing a character. The artwork and writing clearly…
107 h played when written. 25 found it helpful.
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Recommended
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a very cute, caramel-coated game in the “a little bit of everything” genre. It’s part RPG with dialogue choices, part visual novel, part card game, part dating sim, and part simulator of turning a schoolkid into a person with the required stats. And in all of these aspects, the game is... tolerable? The best thing I can say about the card mechanics is that they’re optional and can be…
45 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a hard game to review. The game is essentially a visual novel in which you land on a new planet with a bunch of other survivors after earth has become uninhabitable. Over the course of ten in-game years, you decide how to spend each "month" by doing one specific action in one of the different buildings, like playing ball, or helping on the farm etc. which grows your skills and also…
3.1 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 12 found it helpful.
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