I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (2022)

Northway Games

Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5

3.93 from 69 ratings

296 members have it in their collection · 6 playing now · 131 backlogged · 64 wish listed

How long? Main story 14h (from 2 logged playthroughs)

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.
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Release dates

  • Aug 25, 2022 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
  • Aug 25, 2022 (Europe) PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
  • Aug 25, 2022 (North_America) PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
  • Aug 26, 2022 (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
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5 stars
24
4 stars
24
3 stars
14
2 stars
6
1 star
1
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QueerCityWitch

Status QueerCityWitch Oct 29, 2025

Just finished my sending playthrough, 2.5 years after the first. Still a tearjerker. Gonna at least give it another go to try to get the good ending.

clari_nete_

Review clari_nete_ 5/5 · Jul 11, 2025

Muy buena historia

Me encantó este juego, el arte, la música, la historia y los personajes. Es un juego que te sorprende con la narrativa, te deja sin aliento y he llorado más veces de las que me gustaría admitir. Es cierto que el juego de cartas no es muy complicado y depende de que tengas una buen mazo. El bucle también es …

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Me encantó este juego, el arte, la música, la historia y los personajes. Es un juego que te sorprende con la narrativa, te deja sin aliento y he llorado más veces de las que me gustaría admitir. Es cierto que el juego de cartas no es muy complicado y depende de que tengas una buen mazo. El bucle también es muy largo como para ser rejugado varias veces, yo creo que a partir del segundo run no apetece hacer más pero aún así el primer run es tan impactante y merece tanto la pena que yo lo jugaría aunque sea solo por ello.

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clari_nete_

Status clari_nete_ Jul 11, 2025

Me encantó este juego, el arte, la música, la historia y los personajes. Es un juego que te sorprende con la narrativa, te deja sin aliento y he llorado más veces de las que me gustaría admitir. Es cierto que el juego de cartas no es muy complicado y depende de que tengas una buen mazo. El bucle también es …

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Me encantó este juego, el arte, la música, la historia y los personajes. Es un juego que te sorprende con la narrativa, te deja sin aliento y he llorado más veces de las que me gustaría admitir. Es cierto que el juego de cartas no es muy complicado y depende de que tengas una buen mazo. El bucle también es muy largo como para ser rejugado varias veces, yo creo que a partir del segundo run no apetece hacer más pero aún así el primer run es tan impactante y merece tanto la pena que yo lo jugaría aunque sea solo por ello.

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Juleske

Review Juleske 5/5 · Nov 24, 2024

Well damn

I got this for my birthday from a friend - she hit the jackpot with this one.

Princess maker style calendar management with cute graphics and an amazing setting? Sign me up! Extremely well written, beautiful art, evocative characters, and then the twist that makes replaying (or load up an old save and diverging from there) so interesting and worthwhile. …

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I got this for my birthday from a friend - she hit the jackpot with this one.

Princess maker style calendar management with cute graphics and an amazing setting? Sign me up! Extremely well written, beautiful art, evocative characters, and then the twist that makes replaying (or load up an old save and diverging from there) so interesting and worthwhile. I played around obsessively for a weekend until I got all the interesting endings. Honestly, I have to admit the game made me cry multiple times, usually on the endings. Very touching, very well done.

The card game is fine. It's actually quite elegant in its simplicity, and you can really puzzle over it in the late stages of the game. It does get repetitive on multiple playthroughs. The idea of have memories as playable game cards is genius and very evocative.

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Bliceheart

Status Bliceheart Apr 1, 2024

That was one of the longest loop games i have ever played.

I've not even hit half the outcomes in my two playthroughs, but having clocked in at just under 24 hours, i don't have it in me for a third run.

The game is honestly lovely though, and one of those that is so complex i find myself flabbergasted …

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That was one of the longest loop games i have ever played.

I've not even hit half the outcomes in my two playthroughs, but having clocked in at just under 24 hours, i don't have it in me for a third run.

The game is honestly lovely though, and one of those that is so complex i find myself flabbergasted at how it was programed.

Awesome music and themeing

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Jasyla

Review Jasyla 3/5 · Mar 6, 2023

Something doesn't work for me

As a visual novel where you choose your path and form relationships, this is a pretty good game. The writing is good and the characters are well rounded.

As a card game? Pretty brain dead. The card game is so easy it may as well not be there.

As a time looping game? The loop is waaay to long for …

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As a visual novel where you choose your path and form relationships, this is a pretty good game. The writing is good and the characters are well rounded.

As a card game? Pretty brain dead. The card game is so easy it may as well not be there.

As a time looping game? The loop is waaay to long for me to ever try a new path.

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