Survive the planet. Figure out what happened. Probably.

About the game

Stranded, equipped, and slightly doomed

Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and handcrafted content. Players explore mysterious locations, mine for resources, and encounter strange creatures, some of which do not want to kill them and eat their corpse.

Humanity launched the colony ship Hephaestus and the faster scout ship Hermes toward a potentially habitable planet 14 light-years from Earth. Four years after the Hermes arrived, the Hephaestus investigated a faint signal from a nearby asteroid and set in motion the events that destroyed the ship. The player escapes with little more than their clothes, a multi-function wrist laser, and a faulty artificial intelligence 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

• Authored and proceduralExplore an expansive world that mixes generated terrain with handcrafted locations and story spaces.
• 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.