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Grow up in an alien colony through seasonal work, exploration, relationships, and memory-driven card challenges.
Released 25 Aug 2022
Grow Up on Vertumna
Turn Memories into Cards
Explore Alien Wilderness
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG 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.
Developed by Northway Games · Published by Finji









You guide Sol from childhood to age 20 in humanity’s colony on Vertumna, an unfamiliar planet filled with strange life and growing challenges. Your choices shape Sol’s skills and relationships, as well as the colony’s future.
Each season, choose how to spend limited time: study, work a colony job, explore the wilderness, or spend time with friends. These activities develop skills and relationships while bringing new events and challenges.
Experiences become cards used to resolve challenges ranging from tests to dangers in the wild. After a life ends, memories can carry into a new run, opening different options and outcomes across many possible endings.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its character-focused writing and emotionally affecting story, along with the many outcomes and details revealed through replaying. Reviews also frequently appreciate the card challenges and art, while some find the routine repetitive, progression hard to read, or romance less developed than expected.

| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 91/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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