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Visual Novel Fest

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 on sale this spring!

The Storyteller's Festival

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:

[h2]📖The Storyteller's Festival📖[/h2]

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 multiple times.

Happy reading!

- Sarah ːnyaaː

Save & Sound Music Festival

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 be on sale!

🎶Also-also all week: We're streaming the Exocolonist soundtrack on Steam.

Our soundtrack features two hours of tracks from fourteen artists, including Em and Gordon from A Shell in the Pit (who did our sound and trailers too). If you want to know more, I wrote a blog post about it!

🎉Also-also-also all week: listen to rad soundtracks and amazing sound design in the other festival games.

Hosted by Bedtime Digital Games and a group of amazing creators, the live SAVE&SOUND show will stream here on Steam, and on Twitch and Youtube. See the official site for more info.

Two years and two new plush xenofauna!

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.



[h3]The two featured specimens are:⁠[/h3]

[h3]🐸🐀Xenofelis monopodus (the common hopeye)⁠[/h3]
Hopeyes leap around on a single foot, and live in colonies with up to 100 others.⁠ They love cuddles.

[h3]🐲🐛Xenosaurus polyped (the dillypillar)⁠[/h3]
Dillypillars are generally solitary, and can grow up to 100 pairs of feet!⁠ This particular dillypillar is just a wee four-legged juvenile, named Socks for her white-colored feet. She loves cuddles too.





[h3]Crowdfunding-style campaigns[/h3]

We have one month to get a minimum of 200 orders. On September 25 the campaign ends, and if we've met our goal then every plushie will be made-to-order for our backers. After that, no more will be made!

The estimated shipping date is December 14th so you miiiight get yours in time for the holidays, but if you're planning to gift one to somebody, maybe have a nice card ready just in case your xenofauna is a little late.



[h3]Limited time only[/h3]

Socks and the hopeye are the final Exocolonist plushies we have planned to make. I may always change my mind later, but you've been warned, these might be the last!

So if you get one (or both for a 10% discount) maybe don't play with them in the garden like I did with these two samples. They have dirt all over their butts now!





Come join us on Discord to celebrate with the devs!

- Sarah ːexosmileː

SimFest 2024

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 simulating bladder-fullness, I still hope people get a similar joy from guiding Sol/Solane/Solanaceae through all the many possibilities of adolescence on Vertumna.

Oh, right, and the game is on sale, with a limited time demo, for SimFest 2024 from July 22-29!

- Sarah ːnyaaː