Survive the planet. Figure out what happened. Probably.

About the game

Stranded, equipped, and slightly doomed

Signs of Life is a 2D sci-fi survival game with a world that changes from one new game to the next, plus story locations built by hand. Players explore, mine, build, and meet strange creatures, some of which do not want to kill them and eat their corpse.

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. The player escapes with little more than their clothes, a wrist-mounted laser, and a faulty AI companion named AGIS.

On the planet below, survival grows into exploration, construction, combat, and an investigation into what happened before the colony ship arrived. Ores, materials, and animal organs become weapons, armor, gadgets, furniture, and tools for reaching deeper into the world.

Key features

A dense little alien world

• A new world, with hand-built surprisesThe wilderness and caves change each time, while ruins and story locations are carefully built by hand.
• Build a survival toolkitMine, hunt, gather, and turn unusual resources into weapons, armor, gadgets, furniture, and more.
• Meet the wildlifeEncounter strange alien creatures, familiar animals, and more chickens than the fate of humanity strictly requires.
• Follow the mysteryInvestigate ruined facilities, intelligent alien cultures, and the events that doomed the Hephaestus.
• Play togetherExplore and survive alone or with friends through online co-op, with online PvP support.
• ExperimentCombine conventional technology with strange biology, alien artifacts, drones, cybernetics, and other questionable ideas.

Media

Press assets

The trailer and screenshot collection are currently being refreshed for the road to 1.0. Current gameplay media is available on Steam; downloadable high-resolution additions will appear here as they are completed.