I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

During my first run through i absolutely fell in love with Dys, so of course i had to dedicate my life to him and at age 17 at 85 friendship HE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DISAPEARED! I was so distraught i had to listen to Laufey and wallow in my sorrow. 10/10 - killed both my parents, lost my man, and then became a professor.

It is perfect cozy game for me - gorgeous art style, beautiful music and pleasant gameplay. Writting is pretty solid, though some paths are clearly better than others. Worth my time and money (especially on sale).

Zwykle odnoszę się do The Game Awards z dużą rezerwą, głównie przez to jak stronnicze są względem gier z dużym budżetem. Ten problem jednak nie istnieje w trzech kategoriach. Best Indie i Indie debiut to wiadomo good stuff, ale jest jeszcze jedna. Games for Impact to w założeniu potworek, jak można ocenić jak bardzo dobre przesłanie ma gra? Nominacje w tej kategorii są jednak zwykle bardzo ciekawe. Tam też znalazłem dzisiejszą produkcję. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist była w tej kategorii nominowana zapewne przez swoją inkluzywność, zwłaszcza dla osób LGBTQ+. I to na pewno widać, gra ma estetykę nierozerwalnie skojarzoną z inkluzywnością właśnie. To może odstraszać, nie tylko z powodów nietolerancji, ale też pewnej błahości i powierzchowności w prowadzeniu fabuły. Takie gry bywają z tym kojarzone. Pragnę tutaj rozwiać te obawy. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist potrafi uderzać w nas trudnymi wyborami i stawiać nas przed ciężkimi wydarzeniami. Dobrze miesza się to z uroczą tolerancją. Tematycznie gra przedstawia historię nastolatka żyjącego na kosmicznej kolonii (duh). Kierujemy rozwojem tej osoby w wieku 10 do 18. Doświadczamy więc zarówno problemów małej społeczności, w kolonii (polityki, chorób, obrony przed obcymi), jak i dojrzewania naszej postaci (szkolnych dram pierwszych miłości, dojrzewania). Niesamowicie wciągnąłem się w historię, ale ostrzegam, że nastoletnie historie mnie chwytają często, nawet gdy są niedojrzałe, bo sam miałem dość surowe emocjonalnie lata nastoletnie. Gameplay to połączenie visual novelki, time managementu i karcianki. Wybieramy jak nasza postać ma spędzić miesiąc, czy przez naukę, ekspedycję, czy pracę. To polepsza nasze statystyki i daje nam nowe karty wspomnień. Te statystyki są następnie używane w konwersacjach. Co zaś z kartami? To trochę taki pokerowy deckbuilder gdzie musimy ułożyć karty o jak największych wartościach w najkorzystniejsze figury. Nie sama rozgrywka jest tu istotna, a to że te karty symbolizują nasze osiągnięcia. Fajnie tak wygrać challenge używając kart takich jak oblany sprawdzian z pszyrki, pierwsza miłości i spotkanie z przyjacielem. To bardzo utwierdza przeczucie, że nasze działania mają impact. Kompletnie się tego nie spodziewałem, ale znakomicie się bawiłem w I was a Teenage Exocolonist. Oczywiście to nie gra dla każdego, ale myślę, że połączenie wholesome wątków wciągającej historii może kliknąć dla wielu osób. Dla mnie na pewno tak było.

This game makes me want to play on repeat over and over again. Pathing is fairly easy to understand, but not so obvious or boring that you don't want to do another run-through and make one of the other decisions. Overall, a really cool concept of replayability, and nice music!

esse jogo devia ser muito mais popular do que ele é, 10/10, estou obcecada

This story is a surprisingly dense experience; my second playthrough felt meaningfully different from my first, and I think there's a good deal I still haven't uncovered. The characters start out as immature children, and grow over time (though how and whether they do so depends in part on how you engage with them). I think perhaps the best way I can express my review is through a text I sent to a friend: [i]Currently obsessed with I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, which is more or less what it says on the box. Basically a visual novel/choose your own adventure style, living on an alien planet from ages 10-19. Surprisingly on-point for my life given the colony's survival is jeopardized by various disasters and people dying left and right. All your kid cohorts are either annoying, cloying, or boring, and yet somehow pretty likeable? My favorite is the cold, workaholic trans (-gender, -genic, -humanist, -etc.) girl who tolerates my presence because she recognizes my competence, and shows her affection by allowing me to assist with her studying/research. At one point she was lamenting the fact that she was stuck in a corporeal human body and I told her she was lovely just the way she was and she wasn't amused but later on she ultimately agreed to date me anyway after I walked through all the reasons it made sense and she agreed she was sort of intrigued.[/i] I do have a caveat to add to what would have otherwise been an unambiguously positive review. While the characters are generally very well-done, and there are limits to your agency in shaping the story (which is good and appropriate!), it didn't always feel (to me at least) that their character arcs from prologue to epilogue were either clearly telegraphed or fully coherent. The one that shattered my interest in fully plumbing this game's depth is best expressed in a later text to my friend after talking about some other stuff (some spoilers redacted): [i]But, ugh, you said "tangentially related" ... [spoiler]Her name is Tangent. And even my ice queen warmed up and[/spoiler] got compelling by the end. But then in the epilogue, [spoiler]she spirals into depression, breaks up with me, crashes out at her job, and dies in her early 60s.[/spoiler] But the cool thing about the game is that it's a sort of time loop where you can replay and make different choices or accomplish things more easily with foreknowledge, producing different results, until you feel you've "lived your best life." I was all stoked and determined for another run, where I could figure out how to [spoiler]stop her twin brother from vanishing and help her fix her relationship with him (which seemed more likely to improve her mental health than the alternative change of helping her succeed in creating a pathogen to genocide all native life forms on the planet). But I just found out that *no matter what you do*, she will *always* leave you and *always* die in her early 60s.[/spoiler] I am DEVASTATED I hate this game now what is the point of me trying to live again if my best life can't be lived??? :,-("[/i]

I cannot recommend this game enough. I don't want to provide any spoilers, but if you love exploration, narrative-driven games (and you don't mind or even love a card element), then this is the game for you. Every character has a story that's worth exploring, and even hundreds of hours in, I am still making new discoveries. If I could force everyone to play this game, I would.

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