Everything Is Crab

Everything is Crab is such a unique take on the Survivors style Roguelike, with all sorts of ways to evolve your creature and keep its belly full.

If you’ve ever wanted to live a version of your life where you spend a bunch of time just eating things you find on the ground and then randomly evolving, then good news, because Everything Is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelike is here to fill your very specific niche.

Older readers of this website may remember of a game from two decades ago named Spore. Developed by the creator of Sim City and The Sims, it was a promising game where you would be able to live the legacy of a creature’s evolutionary line, starting from a single-cell organism, up until it became a fully intelligent spacefaring species. What felt like a promising idea ended up being a collection of small and unfocused minigames for each stage of its evolutionary line. But what happens when y...

More a novelty than your next roguelike obsession, but it has enough creativity and left-field ideas to be well worth experiencing—especially if you're still pining for the lost potential of Spore.

A great foundation for a proper roguelike in the future.

Everything is Crab combines Roguelike gameplay with Spore-like evolutions to create something that feels wholly unique. That doesn't stop the game from falling into the trap of having a bit too much RNG. It's visually interesting with a fun art style that showcases those evolutions well, but gets weighed down by some of the more pressing issues. All in all, Everything is Crab is a good game that is hopefully well on the way to becoming a great game.