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Stranded on an alien world after a failed expedition, mine resources, craft gear, and explore a 2D survival sandbox.
Released 27 Jan 2014
Mine Alien Terrain
Craft Weapons and Gear
Build Survival Bases
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Developed by Sweet Dog Studios · Published by Sweet Dog Studios
After escaping a doomed human expedition in a pod, you wake on a distant planet with little equipment and a faulty AI companion. The world combines procedurally generated areas with handcrafted locations and creatures.
Explore the planet, mine blocks for resources, and hunt or gather materials. Encounter alien wildlife and other threats as you venture through unfamiliar environments.
Use collected ores and materials to craft weapons, armor, gadgets, furniture, and other equipment for survival. Building, equipment upgrades, and online co-op support further exploration and play.
Players praise the crafting and upgrade options, exploratory discovery, and sci-fi setting, with some also enjoying the variety of weapons and gadgets. Several reviews describe the game as fun despite concerns about its development pace, length, or clarity; opinions on its depth and polish vary.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse. Along the way, you'll be able to craft armor, weapons, gadgets and more to assist you in surviving in an inhospitable environment.
Sensing that an apocalyptic war was imminent, the United Nations executed a last-ditch plan to save what they could of the human race. Two spacecrafts were launched: a massive colony ship called the Hephaestus and a smaller, faster scout ship called the Hermes. The destination was a recently discovered earth-like planet with the potential to harbor life located roughly 14 light-years away. The Hermes reached the planet first in order to establish a presence in anticipation of the arrival of the Hephaestus.
Four years later, as the Hephaestus approached its destination a faint signal was detected from a nearby asteroid. Against their better judgement, the crew of the Hephaestus decided to investigate, and in doing so set in motion a chain of events that would ultimately lead to their destruction.
The good news is, you managed to survive by hitching a ride on a small escape pod just in the nick of time. The bad news is, everyone you knew and loved is dead, you have nothing but the clothes on your back, a standard issue multi-function wrist laser and a faulty artificial intelligence companion named AGIS. Oh, and the human race is probably doomed.
Probably.
An expansive world with a combination of hand crafted and procedurally generated content.
Online Co-Op Multiplayer
A bunch of weird alien creatures.
Some familiar creatures.
Chickens.
Mining, hunting, gathering.
Gobs of ores, materials and animal organs you can use to...
Craft all kinds of weapons, armor, gadgets, furniture, etc.
Signs of Life is now close to release. We have finished most of the content we originally planned for the 1.0 release, and we're currently tying up loose ends and tightening up the game.
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Achievements | 15 |
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| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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