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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG 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.

What works

  • Deep, meaningful narrative with branching choices
  • High replayability with multiple endings
  • Inclusive character customization and representation
  • Engaging card-based gameplay integrated with story
  • Beautiful art and immersive soundtrack

Things to keep in mind

  • Some find romance options shallow or limited
  • Repetitive elements in later playthroughs
  • Story pacing can feel rushed near the end
  • Card game mechanics may feel simplistic or luck-based
  • Requires significant reading and attention

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Pirate's Fate

  • Winds of Change

  • Cabernet

  • Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall

  • Digimon Survive

  • Little Goody Two Shoes

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist but with less of a community feel

  • Girls of The Tower

  • Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2

  • Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

  • The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

  • Love Esquire - RPG/Dating Sim/Visual Novel

  • Fantasy of Caocao 2

More violent

Games that feels like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist but with more combat and destruction

  • Battle Suit Aces

  • Outcast Tales: The First Journey

  • Thea: The Awakening

  • The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily

  • Wildermyth

  • Fantasy Maiden Wars - DREAM OF THE STRAY DREAMER -

More social

Games that feels like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Worlds of Aria

  • Across the Obelisk

  • Sunderfolk

  • Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip

  • Pyre

  • Monster Prom 4: Monster Con

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist but with less leadership over others

  • Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them

  • MECHANICA: A Ballad of the Rabbit and Mercury

  • Magical Diary: Horse Hall

  • Arcade Spirits

  • Griftlands

  • BROK the InvestiGator

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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026