Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

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About the Game 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 [link deleted]'s Spore meets Modern Roguelites As everybody knows, eventually, every organism ends up evolving into a crab.

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Developer:
Odd Dreams Digital
Publisher:
Secret Mode
Engine:
Unity 6
Release date:
08 May 2026
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (700)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (3046)

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About the Game

Section Header with text "The Animal Evolution Roguelite"

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

Section Header with text "Beat Carcinisation"

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!

Section Header with text "Evolve, Adapt, Overcome"

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 abilities

    • Endless possibilities and visual combinations

    • Strategy-defining evolutions

    • Many viable survival strategies and playstyles

Pixel art portrait of a cow.          Pixel art portrait of a sloth.          Pixel art portrait of a camel.

  • A living, thriving ecosystem

    • Many different critters with their own goals and strategies, each of them with several stages of evolution

    • Four distinct biomes with different rules, climate events, points of interest, flora and fauna

    • Night and day cycle          

  • A variety of bosses that may (or may not) appear with each run

  • Huge meta-progression layer

    • Difficulties system (if you dare!)

    • Genetics (starting Characters), which can be combined to create endless starting character combinations

    • Challenge Scenarios to push your adaptation skills to the limit

    • More evolutions

  • Endless runs

    • Prove your survival skills to unlock Endless runs, ditch the timer, and outlast the apocalypse! 

  • Track your findings, meta-progression and achievements in the Codex 

A bouncing hare.

Have a Crabby day!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
1.8 ghz with SSE2
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
DX11, DX12 capable
Storage:
2 GB available space
Sound Card:
Integrated

recommended*

OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
3.5 ghz with SSE2
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
DX11, DX12 capable
Storage:
2 GB available space
Sound Card:
Integrated

User reviews

Annabelle Siles
Not recommended | 18 Jul 2026
89.9h played

Not gonna lie, first off, I do like this game a lot and have put 90+ hours into this game. I cannot recommend this game because it frankly ASTOUNDED and SURPRISED me that this game isn't in beta! This game feels

Helpful: 2
vabolo
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
53.3h played

Very fun roguelite, games are quick and builds become quite varied as you unlock more ability drops. My only point of criticism is that the enemies become a bit repetitive, but otherwise I keep going back to this game

Helpful: 0
AlexOhKay
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
8.2h played

I had no idea this game existed until the Game Grumps played it. I'm glad it piqued my interest because I have played this non-stop for like 8 hours. Very easy-to-understand gameplay loop, that has a lot of potential,

Helpful: 0
TheWimp
Recommended | 17 Jul 2026
11.8h played

How else would i fulfill my lifelong dream of making the world's tiniest beaked, mushroom-infested, winged scorpion, able to devour a hippo in two seconds. This game is all kinds of charming, and my kind of dumb.

Helpful: 0
Avion_Prime
Not recommended | 16 Jul 2026
5.3h played

Everything may be crab now, but hopefully it gets better! But without joking, barely anything is crab in the game. The game mode is an eternal push to higher difficulty through a repetitive gameplay loop that starts and

Helpful: 1
goldbandwebcap
Not recommended | 18 Jul 2026
6.4h played

I kind of wish I could give this a neutral review. It's fun for a bit, but there's nowhere near as much replayabilty as you'd expect. I've played for about 6 hours and at this point I'd rather play Balatro (where I have

Helpful: 0