I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is available now!

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative deckbuilding RPG with a timeloop twist. Explore, grow up, and fall in love, over and over and over. 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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15 skills - will you focus on empathy and organization, or train up your toughness and bravery?
1000 story events - too much to experience in one lifetime, but luckily you'll have many.
25 jobs - goof off behind the counter as a depot clerk, or join a survey team and chart the Valley of Vertigo.
10 dateable characters - dogboys, aliens, hot politicians and cold-as-ice killers. Can you guess what your childhood friends will grow up to be?
200 battle cards - loosely based on poker rules, make the best hand from cards like Up to your Knees in Mud (adjacent cards get +1) and Testing on Humans (cards to the right become blue)
50 endings - find every way to die, aim to become Governor one day, or live a simple life as a botanist and let others take care of the monster-slaying.

Warning: This game deals with mature subjects and may not be suitable for all players. Please see our content warnings for more info.

Glowing Eyes Vriki plushie campaign

16 March 2026, 9:00 am

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist’s most popular Makeship plushie, the vriki, is back for a limited time! This upgraded second edition sports a jauntier mushroom cap with glow in the dark embroidery on the spots and eyes. So it can watch you. In the dark.

Get yours before April 6th 2026!

The glowing eyes vriki is a three week Makeship campaign. If we succeed in meeting the minimum 200 preorders, this glowing cutie will be made and ready to ship out in early summer. The plushie campaign will run through to the Easter long weekend and end on April 6, so make like a hopeye and bounce over to Makeship and catch your vriki before they’re gone again.