137

137 is a game about running a mysterious underground factory without a name or body, while trying to keep your components and mind intact. When the facility’s threats overcome you, you regain consciousness to find that everything you know has changed, and must find your bearings again.

Runs and the facility

Each run has a changing map layout, with 12 regions to explore. Rooms and visual elements respond to how you play, while threats adapt in real time to your actions. Procedurally generated puzzles grow more difficult as a run progresses, and difficulty both affects and is influenced by your actions. You can find over 100 unique items that modify the facility’s functions.

Uncover the story

The story emerges across multiple runs from several sources. Different endings permanently change aspects of that save file’s gameplay. Data chips found throughout the facility can be scanned to read archived experiment logs, and item descriptions explain how each item fits into the world. As you encounter threats, you can complete a bestiary that explains how to fight them, where they come from and what purpose they serve the facility.

Industrial horror

The game takes place in a retro-styled industrial environment that responds to gameplay in real time. Its computer-oriented gameplay can be navigated with a keyboard or mouse, and its horror ambience has an adjustable volume mixer, including an option to mute jumpscares. The game also includes references to other characters and works in the Azurnian lore.