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Signs of Life
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“I've seen the game about on the web for a while and decided to buy it purely because of my love for games such as Starbound and Terraria. I was not disappointed. SoL doesn't feel nearly as expansive as Starbound (Which i will try to avoid comparing it to, though the two are very…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“"Controls are disgusting. the text is too small to read easily. and in general I am less then impressed" this was my initial take on this game but since I posted this the developer has asked me questions about my experiances and has been incredibly helpful. if a single man can…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Alright, so we have here Signs of Life. Same genre as Terraria and Starbound, but with similar elements trying to spin it off in different ways. The manipulator tool requires gem fragments to use better and better, which is a nice element. The background story is relatively…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-24.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Signs of Life Update 27
Hey folks, Update 27 brings post-game colony management, expanded controller support, clearer tutorials and interaction prompts, and improvements across co-op, performance and modding to the main bran
Signs of Life Update 26
Hey folks, got a new update for you on our path to a 1.0 release. Expect an official announcement sometime soon with the release date and a new trailer :) This update is mostly about stability and fix
Signs of Life Update 25
Hey folks, it's been a while, but we've got a new update for you to try out. First of all, I apologize for the long delay between updates. The last few years have been weird to say the least. The goal
Signs of Life Update 24
Hey folks, we've got a new update ready for ya. This update is largely about tying up loose ends in the various gameplay systems and cleaning things up as we get closer to release. The high points are
Signs of Life Update 23
Hey folks, we have a new update ready to go. The main goal with this update was to add a new area to explore, and to do a better job of introducing some of the mechanics related to the intelligent ali
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Adventure · Survival · Crafting · RPG · Indie · Action · 2D · Space · Building · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 14 |
| Official site | http://www.playsignsoflife.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Dual-Core 2 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 Compatible Graphics Device Storage: 1 GB available space