I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (v2026.08.11)

A fragile human settlement on the alien planet Vertumna turns the coming-of-age story into a richly reactive sci-fi RPG. You guide a child from age ten through adolescence and early adulthood, balancing school, friendships, family tensions, exploration, romance, and the constant threat of an unfamiliar ecosystem. The tone shifts gracefully between warm, funny daily life and unsettling discoveries about the colony, the planet, and the protagonist’s strange ability to recall previous lives. Its watercolor art gives every forest, classroom, and dangerous expedition a distinctive hand-painted warmth.

Each month, you choose how to spend your time, whether that means studying, training skills, working a colony job, visiting friends, or venturing beyond the walls. Experiences become collectible memory cards, which are used in a clever hand-building challenge system for everything from passing a test to surviving an attack by hostile wildlife. Skills such as empathy, bravery, engineering, and perception open new event outcomes, while relationships develop according to both your decisions and the time you invest in people. Failure is rarely just a dead end: dying or reaching an ending sends you into another life, where retained memories reveal fresh paths and let you make more informed choices.

What stands out is how sincerely it treats consequences across many playthroughs; individual choices can reshape careers, romances, political disputes, survival prospects, and the colony’s entire future. Rather than relying on traditional RPG combat alone, it makes personal development and social decisions feel as consequential as fighting monsters. With hundreds of events, a large card collection, numerous jobs and skills, ten romance options, and nearly thirty endings, it rewards curiosity without demanding perfection on a first run. Fans of Disco Elysium’s character-driven choices, visual novels, or the repeating-life structure of games like The Forgotten City will find a thoughtful, emotionally sharp adventure here, while newcomers can enjoy it as an accessible narrative game with unusually deep replay value.