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
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All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (2396)

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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

Elbowblade
Recommended | 03 Jun 2026
12.5h played

Ahh my new Crack. I recoomend tho that they make npc creatures randomly evolve based on how often their species and genus and class are getting killed off. less often a creature dies less often it evolves. Coding that

Helpful: 0
Multay
Recommended | 03 Jun 2026
21.1h played

pressure 18 onwards is the most unfun experience imaginable on this entire planet. i feel like i would rather use a cheesegrater on my weiner than continuer trying that. when you are not doing those runs the game is

Helpful: 0
Skull'N'Bullins
Recommended | 03 Jun 2026
5.3h played

Cute, cartoony, and charming. Gameplay lands somewhere between “EVO: Search For Eden” minus the story, and the early sections of Spore before it becomes an RTS. Runs are short and satisfying. Eager to see where this

Helpful: 0
bauman.steam
Not recommended | 02 Jun 2026
22.7h played

Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite is a cute concept with some fun early runs, but it quickly becomes repetitive. After 20+ hours, it feels like there’s little left to discover - the same enemies, the

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moth
Not recommended | 02 Jun 2026
27.6h played

its fun but the challenges are waaaay too difficult, especially since some pretty basic unlocks are tied to them. edit: okay. editing to say specifically the second-to-last challenge is bulls**t. the basic game is

Helpful: 0
tlonelyg
Recommended | 03 Jun 2026
15.1h played

If you like Spore's cell stage, this is basically that but just better. It gets pretty damn hard once you hit "Pressure 10", and you need to really focus on just going for the most overpowered upgrades or you'll just

Helpful: 0