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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Still need some tuning. I suppose that a few puzzles needs some hint, but is really fun.”
— a player, Steam review · 616 hrs played“The chillest 2D open world block digger survival crafting game I had the pleasure to play. I found it to be easy, relaxing, carefree and fun to play multiple time with self-imposed rules. The game admittedly always has the same main things that I must do in each playthrough, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 45 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
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 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
Signs of Life Update 22
Heya folks, we've got a new pretty significant update ready. Our intention with this update is to improve on a lot of the foundational parts of the game, improve the ease of use of various mechanics a
What We're Working On (January 2021)
Hey folks, it's been a bit since our last update and I know we can be kinda quiet when we're busy behind the curtain, so we wanted to give you an idea about the stuff we're working on. Revamped Mining
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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