I Was a Teenage Exocolonist for ipod download

Your character is born aboard the first colonising spaceship, reaches the colony aged ten, and comes of age over the subsequent ten years of the game’s narrative, coddled, at first, in this nice, nice micro-society. Everyone’s super chill about it, nice and lovely, with a modern understanding of gender identity and a right-on, post-capitalist, vegan utopian answer to every problem in the universe. The story presents a future where a group of humans has cooperated well enough to send a peaceful mission into outer space to colonise a new planet.

All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game).

This is ornamented neatly with lightweight third-person exploration and an enjoyable card game mechanic, allowing a breather from the text and keeping momentum up.

The bulk of the story experience consists of reading concise flavour text, then picking an option for how your character acts. Nintendo Life’s interview with developer Sarah Northway following the release of the Steam demo gave a hint of the passion driving the game, and playing it on Switch certainly bears that out.Īt its heart, Exocolonist is a piece of interactive fiction in the most traditional, choose-your-own-adventure, Twine-game style. This is a game where the sheer word count and richness of presentation are a feat to behold, outstripping any text-based story game we’ve played in a long time.

It looks nice, sounds nice, features nice characters being nice to one another, and is so nice to the player that you’ll breeze right through it – for better or worse. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, the latest game from indie publisher Finji, developed by Northway Games, is a nice game. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist for ipod download