Games like Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
If Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite is your kind of game, the closest matches are Biovoid, Hell Bug and Rogue Runner — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, intense and punishing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite is a 2026 action-strategy indie simulation where players survive as a creature within a procedurally generated living ecosystem. Developed by Odd Dreams Digital and published by Secret Mode, the core loop revolves around hunting, fleeing, and scavenging to adapt and thrive across multiple runs. Players select from over 125 evolutions and specializations to build unique creature combinations, adjusting their approach as survival challenges intensify. The game's premise centers on carcinisation, the evolutionary phenomenon where disparate species tend toward crab-like forms, tasking players with either achieving this biological endpoint or facing natural extinction. The title holds a 76% positive rating from over 5,400 Steam reviews and is verified for Steam Deck play, available at $9.99 USD.
About Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite: 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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Biovoid
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Top pick for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Hell Bug
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Second-strongest match for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Hell Bug is a simple roguelite shooter where you build a swarm of chaos from the remains of your enemies. Designed as a basic arcade style experience, you focus on crushing mutant bugs and unlocking defeated bosses' children, as powerful new allies. Each bug has a story, some shouldn't be told.
Rogue Runner
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Third-strongest match for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Stop running and you die. Combine fluid parkour mechanics with roguelite TPS combat in a procedurally generated world. Master the movement, break the loop, and escape the Machine of Improbability.
Dash Bang Rift LLC
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Ranked #4 for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Take over your grandma's company Dash Bang Rift LLC in this high-stakes action roguelite/roguelike where you out-math the apocalypse. Experiment with volatile Rift Mod stacks to transform standard weapons into god-tier destruction before the rift overwhelms you. Finish your shift—or die trying.
Seedovia
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Ranked #5 for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Seedovia is a rogue-like dungeon crawler where you traverse room after room, fighting challenging monsters. Chain your weapons, collect game-changing passive upgrades, and equip items to create unique builds and become increasingly more powerful.
Dream Fortress
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Ranked #6 for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
A survival roguelike where you kill hordes of aliens while gathering resources, crafting gear, and building fortresses on an ever-changing planet. After asserting dominance, recruit your team of aliens to devastate other players in a strategic autobattler.
Coal LLC
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Shares difficulty scaling and roguelite progression with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Ranked #7 for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Katanaut
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Shares difficulty scaling, build variety and an intense mood with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Ranked #8 for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.
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Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Action with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite.
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Steam Engine Simulator
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Frequently asked about Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
- Is Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite cost?
- Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite are Biovoid, Hell Bug, Rogue Runner.
- Who developed Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite?
- Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite was developed by Odd Dreams Digital and published by Secret Mode.
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