I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

I love this game it has completly taken over my life each play through i just dicover more and more, I never get board of playing. One of the best game i have ever played

I think what sells this game to me is that it utilizes its setting to drive its character relations. And by setting, I don't mean strictly the sci-fi coding but the environment in which the characters live, one that's heavily tied to a utopian philosophy that could functionally exist in a multitude of settings. The alien planet is more in service to this concept than it is an exploration of its sci-fi premise, but both do tie neatly together to explore the implications of its premise. What I like about this is that it's not treating the merits of its utopia at face value without dismissing its merits. The philosophy preached by the community is not abhorrent, and in practice, the narrative doesn't imply that its followers are deceptive or hypocritical. People do enjoy genuine freedom and prosper from it, the community does genuinely care about the broader needs of everyone, it is genuinely a progressive society where no one is judged on their birth, etc. But where it gets spicy is tha...

I really enjoyed the story. The stat raising aspect can hit a bit of a wall towards the end of runs where you're maxed out on the ones you want but end up going back to the same sections, but as a whole it's a really good system. The characters are charming, some unexpectedly so. You can only focus on a few friendships a run, so picking different friends is a really simple way of keeping things fresh. They all evolve so well through the years, it's great. The story itself is fun. You do want to make sure you go outside the walls early though, it seems like most things need a little of it, but other than that it's pretty good about letting you make decisions on what's important to you. The world feels really alive, especially on your first run when everything is new but on later runs there's enough going on to keep it fresh. Different choices DO affect the story, some more than others. But also it feels like the story affects the character, you're not just transplanted in. And you w...

It's generally a very good visual novel style game where your decisions very much matter to the story. Music, writing, all great. However, I could barely get through it because it forces LGBQ++ visions down it's own throat so hard the writing occasionally choked on it. I debated another play through to see how other branches work out, but I just...can't. They had trigger warnings in the main menu for every normal thing humans must deal with during their life, but they missed one: half of the cast being some form of LGBQ++, and making sure you know it.

Women, who sneer at my gifts and decide no longer to be cold roughly two and a half years past the point I no longer cared? Check. Teachers, who take my successes as personal insults and waste their mediocre talent on snide remarks instead of helpful input? Check. An economy, which dies and turns to dust around me and can't care less, whether I have learned at the age of 16, what there is to learn in my specialization? Check. Parents, who call me "potato" and have less influence on my growing up than a hippopotamus farting in a pleasant summer rain shower? Check. Yeah, I think it's safe to say Exocolonist gave me a pretty fair facsimile of what I grew up with. Then again, when do we get to the point, where any of this is actually entertaining?!?

This game gives me feelings.

never cried so much because of a game before

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I love Dys I am autistic maybe...

unfortunately a heartwrenching banger