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Evolve a small creature in a living ecosystem, eating, fighting or fleeing as you build mutations to survive each roguelite run.
Released 08 May 2026
Eat to Evolve
Charm Enemies Into Allies
Scavenge Between Hunts
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!
Developed by Odd Dreams Digital · Published by Secret Mode
You begin each run as a small creature in an ecosystem shared with other animals. To survive, you can hunt, flee from predators, or scavenge food and remains.
Level-ups offer evolutionary choices that change your creature’s abilities, stats, and appearance. Combine adaptations with attacks and movement skills to shape a build, or charm other creatures to fight alongside you.
Runs unfold across biomes with different conditions and a day-night cycle, with bosses appearing along the way. You can unlock starting genetics and further options, raise the difficulty, take on challenge scenarios, and unlock endless runs.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its cute, playful presentation, the visible changes to their creature as it evolves, and the satisfying loop of feeding, choosing upgrades, and trying another run. Some appreciate experimenting with combat, evasion, and social builds. Recurring criticisms are that runs, enemies, and effective builds can feel repetitive, and that higher difficulties become punishing without adding much variety.
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
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!
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.
125+ evolution based abilities
Endless possibilities and visual combinations
Strategy-defining evolutions
Many viable survival strategies and playstyles
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
Have a Crabby day!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 40 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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