2026-08-11 07:16 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2026-08-10 17:08 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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 c
2026-05-05 00:54 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2026-04-16 21:35 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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 (
2026-03-16 16:12 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2025-12-08 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2025-11-21 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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: 🏙️🏔️🎮🐋
2025-08-25 17:26 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
🍄🚀 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
2025-07-01 16:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2025-03-14 02:05 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2025-03-03 18:01 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2025-02-17 19:17 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2024-11-04 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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
2024-08-28 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37830808/18d3a0de36eaf9645895a4484a05f096ed0616d3.jpg The two featured specimens are: 🐸🐀Xenofelis monopodus (the common hopeye) Hopeyes leap around on a single foot, and live in colonies
2024-07-22 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · sarahnorthway
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 simul
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