Steam app 1148760 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 20:19 UTC
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.
719 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
50 months, August 2022 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 436 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 283 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist was released on 25 Aug, 2022.
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50 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Oct 2021 to Aug 2026 · times in UTC
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sarahnorthwayI Was a Teenage Exocolonist Patch #3, version 2716 (March 16) is up now on Steam! This build restores some accidentally lost content, adds custom cursors, fixes issues with equipment bonuses and some statuses, and a bunch more small issues…
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EmAnnouncing our launch date of August 25th 2022! Yes, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is only a few months away! We were excited to announce our upcoming launch as part of this weekend's Guerrilla Collective showcase. To celebrate, the…
sarahnorthwayWhen you're not playing the limited-time demo, watch live streams of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist live all weekend during LudoNarraCon! We'll be hosting broadcasts from streamers around the globe enjoying the game - check back on this page…
Harris @ FinjiWatch me (Sarah) give a tour of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and show off some content from the full game, and some card challenges with powerful late game cards. Might be some light spoilers in there but mainly I'll be going over the…
sarahnorthwayI Was a Teenage Exocolonist Developer - and I still am. A dev, that is, not a teenager. Nope, I am a (mostly) developed human adult working on a card-battling life sim about growing up on an alien planet. Digging the demo? Have any…
sarahnorthwayWe’ve started the private beta test of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, and our first playtesters are kicking so much ass! If you’d like to join, swing by the Finji Discord, get your Exocolonist Fan role, and apply to be a tester on the…
Northway GamesEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
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| I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Soundtrack and Artbook | WindowsmacOSLinux | 19 Aug 2022 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | Exocolonist.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | Exocolonist.app\Contents\MacOS\Exocolonist | macos | ||
| Launch | Exocolonist.x86_64 | linux |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
|---|---|---|
WinMyDocuments | Exocolonist | * and below |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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