Signs of Life

Game overview

Survival, crafting, and a mystery on an alien world

Signs of Life is a 2D sci-fi survival game about getting stranded on an alien planet, making useful things out of whatever you find, and slowly realizing the place has a much bigger story than you expected.

A different wilderness each time, with story locations built by hand

The caves and landscape change when you start a new world, giving you plenty of room to mine, build, and wander. Ruins, facilities, and other important places are built by hand, so the story still has real locations, clues, and surprises to find.

Build a survival toolkit

Gather and mine

Collect ores, plants, components, and unusual biological materials.

Craft and construct

Create weapons, armor, tools, gadgets, furniture, workstations, and building materials.

Experiment

Combine human technology with alien artifacts, drones, cybernetics, and creature organs.

Screenshots

A player exploring the surface with mountains, alien trees, and gear visible in the inventory.
Explore wide surface biomes, dig down anywhere, and bring whatever tools seem like a good idea at the time.
A player inside a dark station orbiting a planet, inspecting gear and access equipment.
Hand-built ruins and stations hide story clues, useful technology, and plenty of reasons to keep poking around.
A player with a sword in a cave beside an ant and an underground chamber.
Cross the surface, dig through cave systems, and search places that were here long before you.
A player using a purple scanning beam inside an underground facility.
Combine human technology with alien artifacts, drones, cybernetics, and creature organs.
A player confronting a large creature in a dim cave lit by scattered lamps and machinery.
This one is closer to a boss fight than a wildlife encounter.

The colony mission goes very badly

Humanity sends two ships toward a potentially habitable planet 14 light-years from Earth. The scout ship Hermes arrives first. Four years later, the colony ship Hephaestus stops to investigate a faint signal from a nearby asteroid... and is destroyed.

You survive, and make it to the planet with little more than your clothes, a wrist-mounted laser, and an unreliable AI companion named AGIS. Staying alive is the first job. Finding out what happened, and what was already waiting on the planet comes next.

Available now in Early Access

Play in single-player or with friends online. Learn about co-op, hosting, and world saves, and check Steam for current pricing.

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