Official press kit
Stranded on a planet that was not empty
A 2D sci-fi survival game about being stranded on an alien planet, building a life out of whatever you can find, and uncovering a mystery that started long before you arrived.
Available now in Early Access.
Press information reviewed September 23, 2026
Media
Press assets
Current gameplay screenshots for Signs of Life are available below for editorial use, alongside the existing logo assets. The press kit ZIP includes all nine original screenshots, both logos, and the fact sheet.
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Logo stamp
Compact transparent mark suitable for small editorial layouts and link treatments. 231 × 82 pixels.
Download PNGDownload original PNGs: Outdoors · Pioneer Station · Ants · Scan · Tortoise · Alien relic · Night camp · Pioneer engineering · Torch-lit cavern
Developer and publisher
Sweet Dog Studios
Sweet Dog Studios makes and publishes Signs of Life. The game has been on Steam Early Access since 2014. Bug reports and player feedback go into the live game.
Press and business contact
playsignsoflife@gmail.comFor interview requests, review access, asset questions, or other coverage needs.
About the game
What the player is dropped into
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 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.
Development
Release history
January 2014
Early Access begins
Signs of Life enters Steam Early Access. The team is small; players file bugs and requests in public.
December 2025
Update 25
A major update adds the main story and ending, expands the alien side of the game, and reworks how new worlds and character progress unfold.
Editorial use
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