I Was a Teenage Exocolonist News

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.

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]
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[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.
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[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

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

We're celebrating the sun with a tremendous trio of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist deals:

[h3]🏷️ Discount - 40% off the game[/h3]
Our lowest price yet!

[h3]🎮 Demo - playable for free this week![/h3]
The demo includes the entire first year of the ten-year game, and your savegame will transfer over to the full game if you buy it.

[h3]⏳ Deadline - to get your Nomi-Nomi plush[/h3]
Our month-long campaign for Nomi-Nomi plushes via Makeship ends July 2nd

Nomi has reached the minimum number of sales (🎉hurray!🎉), so these dolls will definitely get made, and will be shipping out in September. But we don't plan to make a second run or to sell them elsewhere, so this is your one-and-only chance to bring the one-and-only Nomi-Nomi into your home and heart. These are a limited-time pride month exclusive.

[h3]🏳️‍🌈Preorder your Nomi-Nomi here before July 2nd🏳️‍🌈[/h3]





More info and rainbow-Nomi goodness in the original announcement.

- Sarah :exosmile:

Our first round of ✨ limited-edition Exocolonist plushies ✨ was a big success, with Sols and Vrikis now nestled down in their new homes all over the land.

But someone felt left out. Someone who absolutely needed to be incarnated in plushie form.

[h2]🏳️‍🌈Pride Month Nomi-Nomi Plush🏳️‍🌈[/h2]

[h3]Get yours here before July 2nd 2024![/h3]

The first 200 sales will include a Steam key for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, and 10% of all sales go to the Trevor Project.


Nomi is a perfect fit for plushification. You know they'd want to own a doll of themselves.

[h2]🕒A Limited-time campaign🕒[/h2]

These Makeship campaigns run like Kickstarter: we need to reach a minimum order size of 200 for the dolls to get made, and there will only be a single run of them. They should start shipping out at the end of September.


Nomi enjoying some of their favorite hobbies: video games and old zines. Well, they would be holozines in Exocolonist, but these Art Disk back issues will do.


Nomi hanging out with their buddies Sol and Squidley Feeterson.

[h2]🌈Celebrating Pride in Style🌈[/h2]

Again, these dolls will only be for sale for one month, and you can preorder them here!

Because this is a Pride Month event at Makeship, each doll comes with a cute little detachable cape. Nomi's dress is detachable too, if you wanted to, say, design custom clothes for them. Just putting it out there. If you do customize your Nomi plush, please let us know!




Sorry about the rainbows. I can't seem to stop.

- Sarah ːr3fuelː