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Canary in a Crater

Canary in a Crater is an asteroid-delving 2D platformer about digging deep, uncovering valuables, and fighting off hungry alien snails. Spend your hard-earned credits on a wide variety of unlockable gadgets and upgrades to get you deeper and deeper!

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Release
May 18, 2021
5 years and 77 days ago
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7 user reviews7 reviews71.4%

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About the Game

Canary in a Crater is an asteroid-delving 2D platformer about digging deep, uncovering valuables, and fighting off hungry alien snails. Spend your hard-earned credits on a wide variety of unlockable gadgets and upgrades to get you deeper and deeper!

Features:

Randomly generated deep asteroids to explore

-Where and how you mine is up to you!

High-tech delving tools like Turbolifts and Teleporters

-Transform your asteroid with your unlocked gadgets!

Falling boulders, deep pits and hungry aliens to avoid

-Constant vigilance is required to stay alive!

Asteroid scanner to see a mapping of your entire mine

-Export your asteroid scan to share with friends!

Steam Achievements

-15 goalposts and challenges to try for!