I Was a Teenage Exocolonist will take you on an emotional ride again and again. Each playthrough is a unique experience and each life you lead can end differently. It may take you multiple playthroughs to see all the endings the game has to offer. But how exactly do you do that for every lifetime? Here’s a breakdown of what objectives you have to hit to reach each of its 29 endings. Each new ending you unlock that will add new illustrations to the gallery and different outcomes to its narrative in its epilogue.

There are two types of endings: standard career endings when you reach age 20. Then both good and bad special endings, some of which end the game before age 20. Which career ending you’re given is calculated based on times worked in the required job (x 3) + times worked in a secondary job (x1.5) + level of skill (x0.7). There is a minimum threshold of 5 times worked required job and 50 in skill.

Feel free to go for different skill levels across the board but prioritize the specific one(s) that are mentioned for each ending as the one that comes out on top at the end of your life run since they are required to unlock it. It needs to be said but spoiler alert for all the endings.

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Career Endings

Governor	Garrison
Expeditions	Living Quarters
Geoponics	Command
Engineering	Others

Special Endings

Negotiated Peace	Green Vertumna Forever
Tangent’s Cure	Run Away
Joined The Gardeners	Disabled The Array
Transcended Time	All For Naught
Stratospheric Destroyed	Life On Earth

 

Career Endings

Governor

Became governor. Succeed in overthrowing Lum while having a high relationship with Marzipan.

Garrison

Career Endings	Narrative Requirement	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Xeno Hunter	Do not negotiate peace with the attacker.	Hunt in the Swamp	Defence Training	Combat
Sportsball Hero			Sportsball	Toughness
Military Hero	Do not negotiate peace with the attacker.	Guard Duty	Lookout Duty	Combat

Expeditions

Career Endings	Narrative Requirement	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Astronaut	Requires a good relationship with Vace. Agree to accompany him when he talks about wanting to return to space	Survey the Ridge	Engineering Classes	Bravery
Explorer		Survey the Plains	Explore Nearby	Perception
Collector	Do not negotiate peace with the attacker.	Survey the Ridge	Forage the Valley	Organization

Living Quarters

Career Endings	Narrative Requirement	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Prolific Parent	Must pick “I want lots of children” whenever asked by – Parents, Tammy, Rex	Babysitting	Cooking	Empathy
Pulp Novelist		Assisting the Governor	Humanities Classes	Creativity
Entertainer	Rex must’ve built his bar/cafe. Perform the Photophonor.	Barista	Practice your Photophonor	Bravery

Geoponics

Career Endings	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Botanist	Research Xebotany	Study Biology	Biology
Xeno Whisperer	Tend the Animals	Relax at the Park	Animals
Farmer	Work on the Farm	Shovel the Dirt	Biology

Command

Career Endings	Narrative Requirement	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Lawyer		Assisting the Governor	Humanities Classes	Persuasion
Architect		Work at Construction	Engineering Classes	Youghness
Merchant	Has the conversation about society with Marz and pick “I think capitalism is good actually.”	Work in the Depot	Deliver Supplies	Organization

Engineering

Career Endings	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Doctor	Assist in the Medbay	Biology Classes	Empathy
Roboticist	Repair Robots	Engineering Classes	Engineering
Professor	Tutor Children	Humanities Classes	Reasoning

Others

Career Endings	Required Job	Activity	Skill
Rebel			Rebellion
Hobbyist		Relax at any location

 

Special Endings

Negotiated Peace

Requirements:

1. Meet and befriend Sym outside the colony.
2. Go with Sym to meet the Overseer.
3. Bring the Overseer’s offer back to the colony. Must have either Marz or PC as governor.
4. During Glow season in the 10th year, clear three successive challenges (persuasion, reasoning, animals).

Green Vertumna Forever

The Colony was destroyed.

Requirements:

1. Befriend Tang
2. Find out about the plague
3. Do NOT do anything about it

Tangent’s Cure

The Xenos are no more

Run Away

You never return.

Requirements:

1. Date Dys.
2. During the ninth year, do not prevent Dys from planting the bomb.
3. At the beginning of the tenth year, find Dys, talk to him, and select the option to run away with him.

Joined The Gardeners

When you return to yourself, you are different.

Requirements:

1. Date Dys.
2. Find out about Sym
3. During the ninth year, do not prevent Dys from planting the bomb.
4. At the beginning of the tenth year, find Dys in the new boss event at the end of the ridge. Select the dialogue option to talk to Sym first, then select the option saying you want to be a gardener too.
5. Collect the materials and you can transform.
6. Complete the story event to reach this ending.

Disabled The Array

Vertumna’s protectors are gone.

Requirements:

1. Unlock hunting in the swamps by talking to Rhett on the ridge.
2. Explore the swamps with Vace three times over the next years to clear the boss events.
3. Go to the Expeditions menu and talk to Rhett. He will send you to Engineering to talk to Convergence about designing a virus to disable the Array. Then go back and talk to Rhett again to unlock the final boss event in the swamps.
4. Explore the swamps again and clear a series of events to gain access to the Array and upload the virus.

Transcended Time

So this is how it all began.

1. Meet and befriend Sym outside the colony.
2. After you unlock ‘sneak out during Glow’, explore to the end of the area to find an event with a Faceless standing on the hill under the wormhole. You will need to have low stress and/or multiple stress-reducing perks/gear. Wait.
3. When the event reaches the two options, select the second option.

All for Naught

Requirements:

1. Unlock Hunting in the Swamp
2. Either Save Professor Hal or have 30 Engineering
3. Clear the event of Survey the Ridge or Get Sym to Bring you to the Overseer
4. Clear the event in the Swamp. The first will be a unisaur but the second will be the Underground Facility
5. Work with Rhett
6. Once this is completed and you have the bomb, you can hunt for Noctilucent for the key. However, stop before the 3rd battle.
7. Then play the game normally until you reach the end.

Stratospheric Destroyed

The wormhole is closed. Forever.

Life On Earth

This doesn’t feel right.

 

 WAS A TEENAGE EXOCOLONIST

You have your whole life ahead of you. Will you spend it studying in school, or diving into the intriguing flora and fauna of this new world? Or will it be spent on introducing space-age technology, or live in harmony with nature? Will you battle massive beasts, or nurture future generations? Realized in brilliant watercolor, the world of Vertumna is yours to explore.

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist is out now on the PlayStation 4|5, Nintendo Switch, PC – Steam, Mac

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist Guides

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