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May 8, 2026·Odd Dreams Digital·
77%Mostly Positive · 7k

The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!

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Analysed Sep 16, 2026

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  • Worth knowingProvides enjoyable runs for a few hours but feels shallow over longer play.
  • Worth knowingLater pressure levels suffer from harsh difficulty and balancing problems.

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  • Gameplay

    10 opinions · 5 positive · 1 mixed · 4 negative

  • Content

    6 opinions · 1 positive · 2 mixed · 3 negative

  • Challenge

    4 opinions · 4 negative

  • Value

    6 opinions · 3 positive · 3 negative

  • Story

    3 opinions · 3 positive

  • Visuals

    3 opinions · 2 positive · 1 negative

  • Developer support

    2 opinions · 1 positive · 1 negative

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About Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

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About the Game

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Set in a living ecosystem, 'Everything is Crab' is a cute, challenging, highly replayable action roguelite. Make animal inspired evolutionary choices to concoct your own unique creature every run, both mechanically and visually.

It's Spore meets Modern Roguelites

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As everybody knows, eventually, every organism ends up evolving into a crab. Right?

Well, except for you. Choose your own evolutionary path and strategy to thrive and defeat convergent evolution. Take that, science!

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Over 125 abilities combine to create a plethora of different builds and playstyles: Become a wily trickster, a ferocious predator, a gregarious leader, a nimble nomad, or take on any number of other survival strategies.

Legs! Claws! Pincers! Wings! More Legs! Fur! Tail! Scales! Tentacles! I SAID MORE LEGS!!! Build your formidable, visually awkward chimera or get Darwin'd in the process.                                           

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125+ evolution based abilitiesEndless possibilities and visual combinations
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Strategy-defining evolutions
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Many viable survival strategies and playstyles
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A living, thriving ecosystemMany different critters with their own goals and strategies, each of them with several stages of evolution
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Four distinct biomes with different rules, climate events, points of interest, flora and fauna
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Night and day cycle          
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Huge meta-progression layerDifficulties system (if you dare!)
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Genetics (starting Characters), which can be combined to create endless starting character combinations
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Challenge Scenarios to push your adaptation skills to the limit
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More evolutions
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Track your findings, meta-progression and achievements in the Codex
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Have a Crabby day!

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