I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
- Developer
- Northway Games
- Publisher
- Finji
- Released
- 25 August 2022
- Age rating
- PEGI N/A
- UK price
- £20.99
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC, macOS, Nintendo Switch
Genres: role playing rpg , simulator , strategy , turn based strategy tbs , adventure , indie , visual novel , card and board game
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative life sim 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.
Best gaming PC for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist in 2026
Full buyers guide →Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.
Budget
£7991080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
£1,2991440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
£1,7991440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
£3,4994K · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 4TB NVMe SSD
Official system requirements
These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Finji on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7 (SP1+) / Windows 10 and Windows 11 | Windows 10 (64bit) and up |
| CPU | x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support. | Intel Core i5-4690k / AMD Athlon 3000G |
| RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| GPU | DX10, DX11, DX12 capable. | Nvidia GTX 970 4GB / AMD R9 290 4GB |
| Storage | 2 GB | 5 GB |
| DirectX | 10 | 11 |
Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.
Can your PC run I Was a Teenage Exocolonist?
If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel Core i5-4690k / AMD Athlon 3000G and your GPU is at or above Nvidia GTX 970 4GB / AMD R9 290 4GB, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.
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