I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

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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.

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Developer:
Northway Games
Publisher:
Finji
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
25 August 2022
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (65)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (3825)

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Description

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:

  • 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.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
Processor:
x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
2 GB available space

recommended*

OS:
Windows 10 (64bit) and up
Processor:
Intel Core i5-4690k / AMD Athlon 3000G
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia GTX 970 4GB / AMD R9 290 4GB
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
5 GB available space

User reviews

tangwayornoway1
Recommended | 11 May 2026
14.4h played

The game play is unique for this kind of game and is engaging enough to hold my attention. The story is fine. I enjoyed it. The idea of the gardeners and humanity struggling to find a place in a new world not meant for

Helpful: 6
masterplum
Not recommended | 18 May 2026
14.9h played

This is a pretty difficult review to write correctly. This game felt oddly not for me. I think the phrase I am looking for is this game felt so inclusive that it felt exclusive. I think the problem I had was it is a

Helpful: 3
Friendlypizzarolls
Recommended | 16 May 2026
38.2h played

This game is criminally underrated. There are so many phenomenal aspects of this game, art is absolutely stunning, the speculative biology rivals series like Scavengers Reign, the soundtrack is absolutely perfect and

Helpful: 2
krye5
Recommended | 25 May 2026
25.1h played

Holy smokes what a ride. I played through my first playthrough and had a blast. Absolutely a wonderful game. It's a "choose-your-own adventure" book mixed in with a deck builder. However, your deck consists of card

Helpful: 2
Bears, The Porter
Recommended | 16 May 2026
29.0h played

Was looking for a good and comfy after-work type of game to just chill out to when tired. This hit the spot. Despite being a very left-leaning game...with a love for soy, pronouns, gays, and other hippy stuff... it's

Helpful: 1
Kats and Flowers
Recommended | 23 May 2026
20.2h played

I VERY rarely complete games, even great ones. But I couldn't step away from this until it was finished. The more I played, the more I was drawn in, and the complexity of the emotions in the story made me catch my

Helpful: 1