I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

I'm surprised I haven't reviewed this game yet - anyway OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT!!

SPOILER MENTIONS: This game is hands down one of my absolute favourites. The art is phenomenal and Mei did a fantastic job bringing the characters, the illustrations, backgrounds and xenoflora/xenofauna to life. The characters are fantastic and diverse, they are so incredibly human. What that means to me is, they can make some awful choices but also while doing so want to take care of, protect, show love for others. No character is 100% bad (maybe besides Lum but that's fine) OR 100% good (although, Tammy is a super sweetheart). They just exist and are trying to survive and it leads to show what humans can do when but in these situations. Your choices are important, incredibly so and the thing I enjoy is that, you can play according to your own moral compass but you also can challenge yourself by choosing the opposite (and if you wanna 100% this game, unfortunately, you gotta become a fascist and have the potential to bully other characters). It's a safe way to show humanity with all its faults and all its strength. There's extremists in every direction, there's characters who aren't the same after events. SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! ||If you don't manage to save your father by curing the shimmer but are able to stop the famine and save your mother, she will never be quite the same and will refuse to mourn or talk with you about your dad, she'll just continue to work and work which can leave Sol feeling abandoned. (I could be mistaken and this happens eventually but to my knowledge this does not happen.) If you save your dad but not your mother, he'll mourn with you, he'll chat with you and continue to be cheerful (after a period of time post mourning) and be your biggest support. I think people unfairly dislike Flulu because of this, I love her character more because to me, she's doing her best with the skills and resources she has. Unfortunately, there is very limited mental health support for the people of Stratos and Flulu has so much trauma, pain and grief she just puts everything into her work. Workaholism is seen in most characters in my opinion. There is no one to do councilling for a long while with Stratos because of the unfortunate and untimely demise of the woman who had that job.|| You have characters who are hypocritical, characters that are incredibly extreme in some of their actions but you have the constant choice to try to solve and help mend issues in-between characters. You as the player have that power, your choices matter. You will not like everyone, that's by design but I can tell you that if you don't keep playing and playing, challenging your prespections of those characters, you will never fully comprehend the utter beauty and sheer humanity of them and the world. I think some people want their characters incredibly black and white, good or evil but you're not going to fi d that here. What you're going to find is the grey, the middle ground, the true meanings of Ying & Yang. All of it in a fantastical melancholic package of total emotional turmoil and an ambition to replay, again and again and again. I cannot praise this game enough. Please do yourself a favour and play this game. Play it as much as you can and explore all of the routes, challenge your biases and own morals to have fun in this fictional masterpiece.

Jogo muito divertido e viciante. Já estou na segunda run e não consigo largar

One of my favorite games of all time, amazing story, amazing art, amazing soundtrack. I would describe it more as a "choose your own adventure" but your choices do still matter! It highly rewards replaying and you will always experience new events and dialog. A large portion of the endings are just different flavor text at the end with the same technical ending. However the endings that are different are wildly different. There is a lot of writing though, and the story and characters are very interesting! The primary mechanics are your stats, card challenges, and your mood. Stats are upgraded through different dialog choices and events you choose to do every month, card challenges use your deck of the cards you collect, and your mood is essentially stamina. Game is broken up into seasons and months, you can only do so many actions before your mood is too low and you much relax to regain it. The deck building is fine, you aren't actually choosing that many cards, they kind of just happen and a lot of the challenges are either easy or impossible from the start, but there's still strategy to it, you get used to it very quickly, you can choose to make them easier or harder in settings, and you're rewarded for every success. Game definitely shines in it's story, you get attached to the characters and invested in the world very quickly, you can romance (or hate) many of the characters and all of them fit very clear archetypes. Every playthrough you unlock more information about the people, the world, and yourself. Highly highly recommend!

Gosto de como a sequência de acontecimentos se desenvolvem a partir da minha escolha, é difícil algum jogo me divertir assim mas realmente gostei deste! Os personagens são perfeitos, a ambientação incrível e a trilha sonora é viciante. Uma pena que os meses se passam rápido, queria poder aproveitar para fazer mais coisas em cada estação; cada tarefa que faço leva um mês inteirinho.

Probably one of the best games I've ever played

Very good game