Space to Grow

Metasepia Games

About this game

Jack and Kelly, the space colony newlyweds of Our Personal Space, are embarking on a new adventure—parenting! Be an authoritarian tiger dad, a laid-back buddy dad, or anything in between while also planning your farm to carefully meet your family's and community's needs.

Lead your community as you navigate between several factions: the rich megacorp R.E.T. and its miners, your fellow colonists, and a group of maverick farmers who leave the safety of the colony to live on their own. Your parenting decisions will affect your child's competence, independence, and attachment, which ultimately lead to one of four endings.

Features:

■ Parent your daughter from her infancy to adulthood.
■ Parenting options based on modern child psychology and parenting research.
■ Three different factions to negotiate between.
■ Interactive dialogue where you decide Jack's attitude and approach to his family, farm, and community.
■ 150,000 words with branching options leading to one of 4 endings.
■ Customizable farm where you balance crops for calories, nutrition, and value.

Ratings and reviews

I love this game! 😭 I wasn't sure what to expect since I immeadiately completed it after finishing the first game (Our Personal Space) but it's amazing. The farming mechanics are fun, the storyline is great, and I get to see all of the characters I missed from the prequel. The childcare aspect was frustrating but rewarding. I think in total it took me 4.2 hours to complete the game. Overall very satified with this 10/10 would play again.

Here I am, years later after the first game. Once again, the story is amazing and, I would play it over again several times. I love the new addition of the helpful lifestyle advice the story gives, and I slowly got used to the new art style and character redesigns. Update: The issue got fixed and I can give this game 5 stars!

Overview Full disclosure: I am married to one of this game's developers! That said, here is my honest review. I feel that this game fills a really excellent niche that I haven't seen much elsewhere. It delivers a mix of visual novel, simulation, and choose-your-own-adventure elements, and provides a fun what-if romp filled with parenting decisions, space colonization struggles, farm management tradeoffs. Play this game if you: * Enjoyed the first game in this series (it's free, go play it). * Generally enjoy visual novels or choose-your-own adventure stories. * Think a game about farming and parenting on a space colony sounds fun! Don't play this game if you: * Only like the very best AAA games with tons of action and eye candy. * Think visual novels are terrible and boring. * Played the first game in the series and didn't like it. I left a much more detailed review on Steam and Itch.io covering additional aspects such as gameplay and graphics, where more space is allowed.

What's new

Built with Ren'py 8.1.1 to improve compatibility.