I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, narrative RPG with card-based battles, coming to Switch

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, a coming-of-age narrative RPG with card-based battles, is heading to Switch. Publisher Finji and developer Northway Games made the announcement today and confirmed that a release is planned for August 25, 2022.

On Switch, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist will let players use the touchscreen for ease of play especially with the card component of the game. UI has also been designed for accessibility and readability on the smaller screen.

As for the game itself, “I Was A Teenage Exocolonist will ask you to spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.”

Here’s some additional information:

Growing up in humanity’s first extrasolar colony, you and your family are refugees from Earth flung into a new world of wonder and danger. You have your whole life ahead of you: Will you become an engineer and bring modern technology to this jurassic planet? Or cultivate the alien plants and live in harmony with exotic nature? Battle the massive beasts which rule Vertumna, or nurture future generations of humans?
Your decisions matter; whether to study, learn to play an instrument, obey your parents or sneak out to explore the hazardous jungle. Adolescence is full of awkwardness and clumsy mistakes, but everything you learn will make you – and your colony – stronger. Your memories, decisions and friendships will be at your side when strife is near, becoming collectible cards used for everything from taking a math test to escaping the jaws of a wild snapbladder.
A strange connection to an orbiting wormhole causes you to remember events from your past lives. It’ll take many lives to find every ending and ultimately a way to save both your colony and the planet.
Key Features
800 story events – too much to experience in one lifetime, but luckily you’ll have many.
250 battle cards – loosely based on poker rules, make the best hand from cards like Up to your Knees in Mud (adjacent cards get +1) and Testing on Humans (cards to the right become blue)
30 endings – find every way to die, aim to become Governor one day, or live a simple life as a botanist and let others take care of the monster-slaying.
25 jobs – goof off behind the counter as a depot clerk, or join a survey team and chart the Valley of Vertigo.
15 skills – will you focus on empathy and organization, or train up your toughness and bravery?
10 dateable characters – dogboys, aliens, hot politicians and cold-as-ice killers. Can you guess what your childhood friends will grow up to be?

We have a trailer for I Was A Teenage Exocolonist below.

The game will debut digitally on Switch via the eShop later this summer.

Source: Finji PR