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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

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4.2/5

( 16 Reviews )

4.2

16 Reviews

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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Description
The Choices You Make, Make You. F 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 direc...
Genre:
Role-playing - Simulation
Tags:
Story Rich, Role-playing, Sci-fi, Turn-Based, Simulation, show 12 more... Choices Matter, Management, Visual Novel, Survival, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure, LGBTQ+, Dating Sim, Card Game, LifeSim, Deckbuilding, Trading
Critics reviews
100 %
Recommend
Wccftech
9/10
Rice Digital
Polygon
User reviews

4.2/5

( 16 Reviews )

4.2

16 Reviews

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Product details
2022, Northway Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11, x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support...
DLCs
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Soundtrack and Artbook
Time to beat
11.5 hMain
26 h Main + Sides
102 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
The Choices You Make, Make You.

F 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.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
11.5 hMain
26 h Main + Sides
102 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Role-playing - Simulation
Tags:
Story Rich, Role-playing, Sci-fi, Turn-Based, Simulation, show 12 more... Choices Matter, Management, Visual Novel, Survival, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure, LGBTQ+, Dating Sim, Card Game, LifeSim, Deckbuilding, Trading
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.13+)
Release date:
{{'2022-08-25T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Northway Games / Finji
Size:
1.4 GB
Links:
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Game features
Cloud saves
Controller support
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
DLCs
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Soundtrack and Artbook
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Critics reviews
87
Top Critic Average
100 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
Wccftechby Nathan Birch
9/10
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is an engrossing social sim that offers up deep roleplaying and a wonderfully-realized universe, with fun collectible card game mechanics as a bonus. Perhaps more importantly, it’s one of the best distillations of growing up I’ve ever encountered in a video game. It doesn’t matter if you’ve left the era long behind, don’t miss out on getting these teenage kicks.
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Rice Digitalby Lilia Hellal
I may have some complaints about the game’s overall design choices and gameplay mechanics, but I will certainly give it another playthrough or two and may well change my mind. If that ends up being the case, you’ll all be the first to know, as there’s a ton of potential here. And in the meantime, if you like what you’ve seen and heard so far, you’ll almost certainly find something of worth here — so I encourage you to check it out for yourself.
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Polygonby Nicole Clark
Teenage Exocolonist rounds out to a moving, challenging coming-of-age story with genuine stakes and exceptional replayability. If you don’t like the way things went — and in early playthroughs, you probably won’t — there’s always your next life. There are more friends to be made, more crises to avert. With 30 potential endings, the options abound.
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Posted on: September 5, 2025

plantpaladin

Verified owner

Games: 118 Reviews: 12

Great Visual novel with some ok gameplay

You can either run it as either a Visual novel or increase the difficulty of the cards so it becomes harder to choose and you have to cope with failures. After the first playthrough you get option to act depending on what you know will happen.

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Posted on: September 18, 2025

Ikoian

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Games: 76 Reviews: 1

Part VN, part deck builder

As someone who isn't a fan of ether genre, I absolutely love this!

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Posted on: September 18, 2025

MrMirhen

Verified owner

Games: 33 Reviews: 2

A deeply moving coming of age story

This indy game won me over with is gorgeous artwork, compelling writing that perfectly mirrors the age of the protag. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and overflowing with creativity and the funny parts hit as well as the tragic ones. It leaves me wondering WHY can't we get this level of quality from triple A titles with an infinitely higher budget.

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Posted on: February 19, 2023

sashawz

Verified owner

Games: 16 Reviews: 2

Beutiful game our whole family loves!

I'm writing this review as spouse and kidlet play. Extra bonus for Linux.

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Posted on: January 2, 2023

Excelion44

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Games: 40 Reviews: 1

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Requires Mac OS 10.15+. Unable to play on my system (keeping older OS for other games.)

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