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Colony 37

Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources. Spend your money on buying various trinkets and instruments that will help you along the way to earn even more profit.

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Developer
Valen
Publisher
Valen
Release
September 23, 2025
313 days ago
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Very Positive198 reviews95.5%

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Colony 37 is a mining game with a heavy emphasis on exploration, loot hoarding, and simplified survival mechanics. Explore the hidden depths of a long-forgotten colony, find out the reason why it was abandoned, and earn plenty of credits, items, instruments, and a lot more.

  • Procedurally generated block-based world with a depth of 600+ meters. 

  • 10 underground biomes with their own threats and goods you can find.

  • Story-driven gameplay.

  • Dialogue system with small quests and rewards.

  • Hidden underground structures that moves the story forward.

  • Radiation, darkness, and lack of oxygen are your constant enemies.

  • Perk system.

  • Each biome has its own set of resources for you to gather. 

  • Each biome contains its own set of items that you can find in underground chests.

  • The lower you go, the more valuable resources become.

  • Sell all of your found resources back at the base.

  • Even if you didn't manage to bring back your resources, each destroyed block provides you with experience that you can spend on upgrading your character.

  • Players can equip 3 instruments and 10 miscellaneous items. What kind of character build you want to make is completely up to you. 

  • 40+ instruments starting from pickaxes and shovels and ending with flamethrowers, dynamite, drills, and advanced firepower.

  • 200+ trinkets that you can buy or find. Some of them boost your character's stats (damage, health, movement speed, etc.), while some of them allow you to create explosions with each hit, teleport, or even fly.

  • 20+ consumables that are acting as emergency boosts of health/oxygen/energy in a tricky situation.

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