IndieRPGSimulation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 22% of players who started
Started playing 83% of owners
Steam reviews 96% positive of 4,892
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 20h it's 1 in 70 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- At least 22% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “That Was Scary” (Reach the end of age 10) and “The Heliopause” (The Helios Lands in age 15): from 100% to 88% of starters.
- 83% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 4,909 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 24h for positive, 8.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (83.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- That Was Scary Reach the end of age 10 100%
- The Heliopause The Helios Lands in age 15 Most players quit here 88% −12
- The Paradox Get the Transcended Time Ending ≥22% −66
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (50)
story milestone ending side
- That Was Scary Reach the end of age 10 100%
- You Are the Champion Win a Vertumnalia event 98%
- What's Out There Sneak Out to explore 91%
- The Heliopause The Helios Lands in age 15 88%
- Petting Pets Pet your Pet 73%
- The Princess and The Bear Saved Tammy 71%
- Wake Up Again Start your second life 69%
- Who... or What... Meet Sym the Gardener 67%
- His Little Tomato Helped Tangent cure the Shimmer disease 63%
- To Engineering! Saved Professor Hal 62%
- The Chief Surveyor Saved Uncle Tonin 51%
- Hungry No More Ended the famine 49%
- Friendliest Friend Get 5 relationships to 5 hearts 48%
- No Rain Today Stop Tangent's engineered plague 46%
- Tangent's Focus Unlock Tangent on the Main Menu 45%
- Dys's Secret Unlock Dys on the Main Menu 44%
- It's a Coup! Replace Governor Lum 41%
- Sym's Curiosity Unlock Sym on the Main Menu 40%
- I Hate You! Reach 100 Rebellion skill 39%
- Against all Odds Kill a Faceless 37%
- Ding Ding Ding Ding! Reach 100 in all 4 skills of one type 34%
- Matchbreaker Break up Anemone and Vace 34%
- Cal's Strength Unlock Cal on the Main Menu 33%
- Anemone's Loyalty Unlock Anemone on the Main Menu 33%
- Marz's Ambition Unlock Marz on the Main Menu 28%
- Tammy's Care Unlock Tammy on the Main Menu 27%
- Peace on Vertumna Negotiate with the Gardeners at the end of age 19 26%
- Hard Win Streak Win 10 card games in a row in hard mode 23%
- The Paradox Get the Transcended Time Ending 22%
- Rex's Hug Unlock Rex on the Main Menu 19%
- Green Vertumna Forever Get the Tangent's Cure Ending 17%
- High Score Score 75 in a single hand 16%
- Ran Away Get the Ran Away Ending 15%
- Fives Flush Get a flush of five 5s 14%
- Nomi's Enthusiasm Unlock Nomi-Nomi on the Main Menu 12%
- Blow It Up Get the Disabled the Array Ending 12%
- Transformation Get the Joined the Gardeners Ending 11%
- Come Between Them Prevent Cal and Tammy from dating 11%
- Life on Earth Get the Life on Earth Ending 11%
- There Are Four Pets Own four different pets at once 9.7%
- Vace's Confidence Unlock Vace on the Main Menu 9.6%
- Matchmaker Help Nomi confess their love to Rex 8.3%
- Hard? Impossible! Win an Impossible challenge in hard mode 7.9%
- All The Friends Unlock all characters on the Main Menu 6.9%
- All For Naught Get the Colony Destroyed Ending 5.4%
- No More Dreams An experimental treatment for your delusions 5.1%
- Mono Deck Have a deck of cards of a single color or wildcards 4.7%
- Now That's Value Get a single card to value 50 or higher 3.7%
- Collect Them All Unlock every card in the gallery (a lot more than 151) 1.8%
- Every Possible You Get all 29 Endings 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.