The Away Team: Lost Exodus
A space text adventure where your decisions shape the crew's survival
Underflow Studios · Released Jul 22, 2016
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 73% of 111
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 4 years ago
- Jan 4, 2022
What is The Away Team: Lost Exodus?
You play the AI aboard Earth's final interstellar ship, seeking a new home for its crew in a single-player science-fiction text adventure. You navigate randomized sector maps, select planets and stations to visit, send crew members with different traits on missions, and make decisions in written encounters while managing food and fuel.
For you if...
- +you enjoy science fiction built around difficult moral choices
Not for you if...
- −you prefer action-heavy games with little required reading
What players say
73% of 111 reviews are positive
Players praise the writing and science-fiction stories. Common complaints concern shallow exploration, restrictive choices, and crew deaths whose causes seem arbitrary.
Screenshots and trailer
The Away Team: Lost Exodus system requirements
Minimum: Shader 1.1 support, 2 GB RAM, 1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run The Away Team: Lost Exodus?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 or higher 32bit
- Processor
- 1 ghz
- Graphics
- Shader 1.1 support
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7 or higher 64 bit
- Processor
- 2 ghz
- Graphics
- Shader 2.0 Supprt
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Does The Away Team: Lost Exodus have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does The Away Team: Lost Exodus run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 21
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Full audio: English.
Does The Away Team: Lost Exodus use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Dialogue Heavy
- Adventure
- Choices Matter
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Artificial Intelligence
- Interactive Fiction
- Exploration
- Atmospheric
- Story Rich
- Sci-fi
- Pixel Graphics
- Indie
- 2D
- Text-Based
- Space
- Singleplayer
Recent updates
- Jan 3, 2022 · The Away Team v2.13
- Oct 1, 2020 · 2.12 Released
- Sep 2, 2020 · v2.11 Released
- Apr 4, 2019 · v2.9: Time keeps on ticking
- Mar 7, 2019 · v2.8 Released: Resolution selection improvements, minor tweaks
1 DLC available.