- Autumn sale and new bundles! - 2 October 2026
🍃 It's raining here in Vancouver Canada. Is it a little dreary where you are too? Fall is a nice time to stay in, dig out a cozy sweater, and get into some wordy, thinky narrative games.🍂 Steam's annual Autumn Sale starts today and we're celebrating with our usual 50% discount, free trial, and as a bonus the entire Exocolonist soundtrack is up on loop here on Steam to listen to.🕹️+🕹️ We also just added a new bundle with 1000xRESIST to our growing list! It's one of those games that draws you into the shallows with its charming weirdness, then grips and sweeps you along through a wildly deep and emotional story beneath. Here's the full list of our bundles, with bonus discounts during Steam's Autumn sale:
- Choices Matter Festival - 11 August 2026
Our fourth Exoversary celebration continues all this week with a sale and free limited-time demo, and we are proudly part of the first ever Choices Matter Festival!Running from August 10th to 17th, the festival will include talks, announcements, demos and sales from select games which feature branching storylines and impactful decisions. We're honored that I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is included among these titles.Check out the Choices Matter Festival hereIf you need just one game recommendation from the fest mine is Date Everything. I've been playing it this week and it's what it says on the box - silly, fun, and wonderfully gay. Make sure you chat up the toilet. The effort they put into his dialog is just excessive.And don't forget we'll be celebrating our Exoversary this week with a developer AMA on Thursday, August 13th at 2PM PT / 5PM EDT, and plushie giveaways all week, all on the…
- Steam Workshop Update! - 10 August 2026
Happy fourth Exoversary everyone! We're celebrating 🍄🚀 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 🍄🚀 a bit early this year to coincide with the Choices Matter Festival and our first game update in, well, a while!🛠️ Steam Workshop Modding Support!I'm stoked to announce we've added Steam Workshop support to I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. This should make it a little easier for modders to share simple text-based mods which change story files or data files. These sorts of mods can translate Exo into other languages, or add new events to the game. Changing gameplay or adding new images is still a little more complicated, and for the meantime easier done via fan-maintained tools like ExoLoader.In addition to supporting Steam Workshop, you can now install text mods directly via the filesystem. Here's a guide on how to make, upload, and install story and data file mods:Exocolonist Workshop GuideAnd here's…
- Back to back festivals! - 5 May 2026
We're proud to be part of two festivals running back to back this May:🎴 Steam Deck Builders Fest🃏 May 4 - 11 Featuring games where you collect cards, build a deck, collect more cards, tweak your deck, collect more cards, and repeat and repeat cards Cards CARDS CARDS!! Yes, Exocolonist also features deckbuilding, where every card is a memory from your life. Featuring a 50% off sale.📚The Storyteller's Festival📖hosted by Two and a Half Studios May 11 - 18 Featuring narrative games, visual novels, and interactive fiction of all sorts. The Exocolonist demo will be live, including the first full year of the game.
- In Stars and Time Bundle - 16 April 2026
It's a time loop team up!Let me tell you about In Stars and Time, our \ (that's an Exoscript joke) in a new Steam bundle.In In Stars and Time, a party of heroes stands on the brink of saving the world, when everything suddenly resets. Trapped in a time loop, one character remembers every failure, every conversation, every crack in the story, and must slowly piece together a better path forward. Like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, it's a game about choices, relationships, and the often painful weight of memory.If you're here for emotional storytelling, found-family dynamics, and the quiet dread (or hope) of trying again, this bundle pairs two games that hit in very different ways, and linger for the same reasons.- Sarah ːnyaaː
- Springtime with Glowing Eyes Vriki - 16 March 2026
It's the 🌷Steam Spring Sale🌷and all over Vertumna strange wild things are growing. Wait, I mean they're GLOWING!I Was a Teenage Exocolonist's most popular 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.Exocolonist will be 50% off from March 19-26 for the Steam Spring Sale. The plushie campaign will keep running 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.Will there be more Exocolonist plushies? Is there another…
- Choose Wisely Festival - 8 December 2025
Do you love narrative games? Uuuuuuuuuhv course ya do. The more branching the better, right? Forget those mundane choice trees, we need multi-dimensional many-armed octopi looping their tentacles back in on themselves, referencing variables and setting groundhogs and all that.Confused? Don't worry about it. Just check out the Choose Wisely Festival here on Steam and make some choices that matter.I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will have a free demo available for the week. Play through the first year of your life on an alien planet, which takes about 2 hours, with replayability. (STILL no discount this time - sorry! It's festival season!) - Sarah ːnyaaː
- Games from Vancouver - 21 November 2025
We love Vancouver BC! Who doesn't - we've got the sea, the mountains, and more game studios per capita than should reasonably be expected. I grew up here and after 15 years away I was pulled back by the intense gravity of our indie game scene. Our local community is so creative and so diverse and welcoming, and we definitely aren't a big cult, just ignore what they post on bluesky. Half the Exocolonist team hails from here and we are all so proud of our fellow Vancouverites and their games. This week we're celebrating with a festival of Games from Vancouver. Check them all out here: 🏙️🏔️🎮🐋☕ Games From Vancouver fest Nov 21 - 30 2025 🌲🌸🌧️🚴♀️🍁I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will have a free demo available for the week. Play through the first year of your life on an alien planet, which takes about 2 hours, with replayability. (No discount this time - sorry! It's festival season!) - S…
- Happy Third Exoversary! - 25 August 2025
🍄🚀 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 🍄🚀 has been everyone's favorite solarpunk time loop stats-raising coming of age narrative/sim game for three years! As is tradition, we're celebrating our Exoversary with a half price sale, a free demo, a dev stream, and our biggest ever (physically big that is) plushie campaign!🎨🎙️ Developer draw & talkJoin us on Thursday, August 28 at 9am PT / 12pm ET on the Finji Twitch Stream for chatting and doodles with devs Sarah, Mei, Lindsay, and our host Aster from Finji. There will be giveaways!!🛒🕹️Sale and demoThe Exocolonist demo features the full first year of the game, and if you want to keep playing you can continue smoothly into the rest of the game with a 50% discount this week! 👾🧸Faceless and friendsWe're doing another limited time plushie campaign with Makeship! This time for a jumbo-sized faceless plushie that comes with two mini accessory s…
- Vente de Jeux Canadi(an/ens) Game Sale - 1 July 2025
Savez-vous que les devs who made I Was a Teenage Exocolonist sons Canadienne? C'est vrai bud, and so are more Steam games than you might realize. During this year's summer sale, we're celebrating our hoser status with 300 other Canuck developers and their ben bons jeux. They're aboot hockey, beavers, and maple syrup, just like Exocolonist, eh? 🍁Get out there and give'r, ferda!🍁 (sorry!)-Sarah
- Fan Merch and Mods - 14 March 2025
Not only has the I Was a Teenage Exocolonist fandom kept the story going with fic (336 works and counting on AO3), they’ve been busy modding the game and making rad fan merch. Northway Games has always granted permission for anyone to sell fan merch of our games using their own original art. It feels so amazing to have a piece of Exocolonist fandom hanging from my bag or dangling from my ears, out here in the real world. So here’s a showcase! (this is a repost from the Northway Games blog which is so popular it got 4500 spam comments last month when I accidentally broke the recaptcha) Official-ish Merch from Mei Mei’s wooden charms Exocolonist artist Mei (@bkomei) just announced preorders for the cuuuuuuuutest wooden character charms, with unique shapes and different pictures on the two sides. They’re so slick! I love that they’re in a different chibi style than Mei used in the game, bu…
- Visual Novel Fest - 3 March 2025
Do you need a break? To lose yourself in a fantasy sci-fi world? One that, while perhaps reflecting our own in some ways, does so in warm layers of distance and abstraction and comforting nonconformity? Then come with us, and forget about our shared real life problems for a minute. Let's hang out with some fictional teenagers out in space somewhere instead. I'm sure everything will work out just fine for them. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will be 50% off during the Visual Novel Fest from March 3 - 10, then again for the Steam Spring Sale on March 13-20. Don't miss all the other narrative games on sale this spring!
- The Storyteller's Festival - 17 February 2025
From February 17-24, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will be featured alongside the best recent and upcoming interactive fiction and narrative games on Steam. If you like stories that move you, choices that matter, and word counts in the hundreds of thousands, this festival is for you: 📖The Storyteller's Festival📖 2025 edition! Last year's festival included my personal recommends Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess. What will this year bring??? To celebrate the Exocolonist demo will be live for a limited time. It includes the first year of the game (about 2 hours of gameplay) and can be played multiple times. Happy reading! - Sarah ːnyaaː
- Save & Sound Music Festival - 4 November 2024
Join us on November 4-7 for SAVE&SOUND: an online music festival celebrating the fusion of innovation and artistry in gaming audio. 🐟🐡🐠 Don't miss: Exocolonist audio team A Shell in the Pit will be discussing their first in-house game Fish Game on Nov 4 at 1pm PST (10am CET) here on Steam. I love aquarium sims and this is for sure the best one I've played. The plants and hardscape customization is soooo good and they're still adding stuff all the time (but no breeding yet - IT'S HARD). 🎮 All week (Nov 4-11): the Exocolonist demo is up for a limited time. 🏷️Also all week: Exocolonist will be on sale! 🎶Also-also all week: We're streaming the Exocolonist soundtrack on Steam. Our soundtrack features two hours of tracks from fourteen artists, including Em and Gordon from A Shell in the Pit (who did our sound and trailers too). If you want to know more, I wrote a blog post about it! 🎉A…
- Two years and two new plush xenofauna! - 28 August 2024
We released 🍄🚀 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 🍄🚀 here on Steam just over two years ago! This week we're celebrating our Exoversary with a big 50% off sale (our deepest discount yet), a free demo, and the launch of two new plushie campaigns! 🎵 Oh, and we'll be streaming the complete soundtrack here on Steam, so sit back and listen while you gaze at these sweet balls of fluff n' stuff. The two featured specimens are: 🐸🐀Xenofelis monopodus (the common hopeye) Hopeyes leap around on a single foot, and live in colonies with up to 100 others. They love cuddles. 🐲🐛Xenosaurus polyped (the dillypillar) Dillypillars are generally solitary, and can grow up to 100 pairs of feet! This particular dillypillar is just a wee four-legged juvenile, named Socks for her white-colored feet. She loves cuddles too. ✨Get yours before September 25th✨ Crowdfunding-style campaigns We have one month…
- SimFest 2024 - 22 July 2024
Simulation games are my favorite genre. Debatably, the way I play some RPGs and strategy games by ignoring main quests or playing in sandbox mode probably makes them sim games too. Hold on, could EVERYTHING be a sim game? I mean they're all simulating something, right? Let's back it up. I just reinstalled the Sims 4, arguably King of Sims, which is ten years old and still in the top 30 most played games on Steam. I never played with dolls as a kid but hoo boy watching these poor creatures slapfighting and peeing themselves in public never gets old. Despite I Was a Teenage Exocolonist not simulating bladder-fullness, I still hope people get a similar joy from guiding Sol/Solane/Solanaceae through all the many possibilities of adolescence on Vertumna. Oh, right, and the game is on sale, with a limited time demo, for SimFest 2024 from July 22-29! - Sarah ːnyaaː
- Summer Sale with Nomi-Nomi! - 27 June 2024
We're celebrating the sun with a tremendous trio of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist deals: 🏷️ Discount - 40% off the game Our lowest price yet! 🎮 Demo - playable for free this week! The demo includes the entire first year of the ten-year game, and your savegame will transfer over to the full game if you buy it. ⏳ Deadline - to get your Nomi-Nomi plush Our month-long campaign for Nomi-Nomi plushes via Makeship ends July 2nd Nomi has reached the minimum number of sales (🎉hurray!🎉), so these dolls will definitely get made, and will be shipping out in September. But we don't plan to make a second run or to sell them elsewhere, so this is your one-and-only chance to bring the one-and-only Nomi-Nomi into your home and heart. These are a limited-time pride month exclusive. 🏳️🌈Preorder your Nomi-Nomi here before July 2nd🏳️🌈 More info and rainbow-Nomi goodness in the original announcement.…
- Limited time Nomi-Nomi plush! - 19 June 2024
Our first round of ✨ limited-edition Exocolonist plushies ✨ was a big success, with Sols and Vrikis now nestled down in their new homes all over the land. But someone felt left out. Someone who absolutely needed to be incarnated in plushie form. 🏳️🌈Pride Month Nomi-Nomi Plush🏳️🌈 Get yours here before July 2nd 2024! The first 200 sales will include a Steam key for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, and 10% of all sales go to the Trevor Project. Nomi is a perfect fit for plushification. You know they'd want to own a doll of themselves. 🕒A Limited-time campaign🕒 These Makeship campaigns run like Kickstarter: we need to reach a minimum order size of 200 for the dolls to get made, and there will only be a single run of them. They should start shipping out at the end of September. Nomi enjoying some of their favorite hobbies: video games and old zines. Well, they would be holozines in Exoco…
- LudoNarraCon 2024 - 9 May 2024
Time for one of my favorite yearly Steam events: LudoNarraCon, a festival featuring demos and discounts from story-rich games like our very own I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. This year's featured new games include some of my recent favorites: 🔮The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood 🎵Stray Gods 🗡️Slay the Princess 💰Final Profit Plus 50 other new narrative games, newly-minted demos, big sales on tons of older games, and two days of panels and fireside chats from devs. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will be 35% off from May 6 - 13, and our demo will be available for the week! This festival brought to you by the following Steam tags: Choices Matter Story Rich Multiple Endings Interactive Fiction Visual Novel Dating Sim Choose Your Own Adventure
- Deckbuilders Fest and Physical Cards - 25 March 2024
For one week only, the demo is live and game is on sale as we celebrate the best of deckbuilders on Steam! I LOVE deck building games. Some of my recent favorites (all roguelikes): 🛸Cobalt Core 🗡️Inscryption 🚂Monster Train 🐉Dream Quest (obscure but essential) 🃏Balatro (current obsession) But there will always be a special place in my heart (and a not insignificant part of my brain) for Magic the Gathering. It's been years since I've played online, but I have an unopened box of Lord of the Rings in my closet just waiting to be drafted. Something about the feel - and that smell - of glue and cardboard. So naturally when I was designing the deckbuilding component for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, I was already thinking about how to make a physical game out of it. Behold: you can buy it from TheGameCrafter.com for $14.99 USD! These are made to order (so it might take a while to ship) an…
