Hey Crabbies, we've got a handful of exciting updates to share, so let's dive right in! 👀

Welcome TM!

We're excited to announce that ODD is expanding to include a Tech QA on our core team!

TM (previously a moderator on our Discord) has already spent a huge amount of time helping the community as a mod, reporting bugs, providing feedback, and generally being an all-round fantastic crab. After working closely together for quite some time, bringing him on board felt like a natural next step. Many of the bugs, balance issues, & general weirdness that slips through the cracks will now have an extra set of very experienced eyes looking over them before they reach your claws!

Stat drop?!

We always love digging through the data and seeing what sort of chaos you've all been causing in-game. So, just as we did during the Playtests, Demo and after launch, we're sharing another analytics snapshot! 📊 -# Note: Data is true as of 8th Oct 2026 and doesn't account for anyone who opted out of telemetry

Here's some highlights:

• Over 27 million runs have been played so far
• More than 4.2 million victories have come from killing the final boss directly
• Standard continues to hold onto its crown as the most popular Genetic overall

More to come in the following days...

Halloween is coming

Spooky season is creeping ever closer, and we thought it'd be the perfect time for our first ever Everything is Crab Pumpkin Carving Competition

We're calling on all artistic Crabbies to grab a pumpkin, a carving knife, and perhaps a reasonable amount of health and safety awareness, and create the most crabtastic pumpkin you can imagine.

How it'll work

• Submit your carved pumpkin as a forum post in a dedicated competition channel (coming soon) on our Discord
• Once submissions close, the community will be able to vote for their favourites
• You can vote for as many pumpkins as you'd like, so show some love to all the entries that deserve it!
• The Top 3 Community Voted Pumpkins will earn a special prize (still being finalised!)

But that's not all...

The Dev team will also be awarding a special Developer's Choice winner. This won't necessarily go to the most technically impressive carving. Instead, we'll be searching for the pumpkin with the highest possible Crabbyness Factor. Whether it's Darwin, an Evolution, a giant crab claw, or something so wonderfully cursed that it belongs in a P20 run, we want to see your most crabby creations.

We'll share full rules, deadlines & prize details closer to Halloween, but consider this your warning to start planning your masterpieces now.

We genuinely cannot wait to see the unhinged pumpkin-based horrors this community comes up with 🦀🎃

Charlie the Dolphin Update

In case you're not aware, we (ODD) adopted a Dolphin from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation charity a while back. You've been asking for updates so here it is: > Charlie, bless him, tries to be nice to the ladies – just like his mum taught him, but he tends to be a bit of a dope and sometimes outstays his welcome. I came across him on a rough day in the Chanonry Narrows while I was aboard the Mischief RIB. He was following Spirtle and her latest lovely calf VERY closely, and he was being a bit of a pest, so Spirtle gave him a few sharp slaps with her tail to get the message across, and he moved back a bit.

A cheeky little bugger that one!

Update 1.3!

Now for the part you have all have been waiting for!

We're entering the final stretch of development for Update 1.3 and we're happy to confirm that 1.3 is currently planned for ||REDACTED November||! 🦀 However, we've got something **MAJOR ** to announce near the end of the month

Until then, keep on Crabbing 🦀 from all of ODD

Hey Crabbies, I'm back with some more fun ways to play! Below are 4 fun ways to change up how your runs feel and try out weird and wonderful ways to play Everything is Crab 🦀

** Click each of the below titles to see the 4 videos**

#11: Spider-Crab, Spider-Crab

Spider-Crab, Spider-Crab, does whatever a Spider-Crab does 🦀🕷️

If you love high‑mobility builds, slipping around enemies and straight‑up stunting on everyone, you’ll definitely want to check this one out :P

#12: Try and Catch me!

A great way to turn the tides mid‑run is to slowly pick off anything and anyone that dares to chase you!

If you want to turn the tides in style this is the right Starterpack for you! ✨

#13: Release the babies

Why fight yourself when you can get your child monster spider-babies to do it for you?

Spawn a bunch of babies and have them take out your foes. Great for getting boss aggro off of you too! The only question is: Will you step in and help them fight? Or run for the hills and take home the BadParent award in this run?

#12: Get Sniped!

An incredibly deadly archetype! This one lets you wreck havoc from afar with your tongue and recover HP via Leech: Vasodilators when up close and personal.

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Remember that these are just the Starter Packs to get the build rolling. Let me know if there are any other combos we should highlight 🦀

Hey Crabbies We've got a small Hotfix today that fixes an issue with the Boss Fruit not giving Branching Evolutions, not being able start the game and and some controller snap navigation issues.

Full patch notes: Can be found here

High Level Overview

• Fixed a major issue preventing the game from starting up if the Resume Run save file was corrupted.
• Fixed various issues with Snap Navigation sometimes not allowing selecting certain buttons (e.g. Genetics & Evolutions)
• Fixed various issues relating to Alt Tabbing
• Collecting a Branching fruit at the same time as a Regular level up will now reward the player with a Branching Evolution as intended.

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That's all for now, cheers from all the ODD team and see you in 1.3 🔜™️

Hey Crabbies, it's finally time: 1.2 is now live! Check your Steam/Epic/Stove Library to play the latest & greatest version 🦀

Full patch notes: Can be found here

High Level Overview

• 💪 Four new evolutions, including the 3 winning community designs
• 🐣 6 new Specialisations
• 🧬 2 new Genetics
• 👗 5 new free Cosmetics
• 💾 Mid-Run Saves in Endless, Challenges, and regular Pressure Runs
• 🎮 Controller Snapping and UX Improvements
• 🖱️ Accessibility Settings for the cursor
• 🌍 More elements in the World Map Generation
• 🪳 Many Bug Fixes

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We genuinely cannot wait to hear your thoughts on this version and we'll be back with a new 1.3 update 🔜™️

Have a Crabtastic day everyone, Cheers from the ODD Team 🦀

Less than 24 hours to go until 1.2 releases!

In the meantime, I'd like everyone to meet Darwin: The (not always so) friendly neighbourhood spider-crab-spiney turtle with ripped abs blob thingy! This ability can be an absolute blast to play! I'm sure you'll also latch onto it tomorrow 😉

A small teaser today Crabbies, but only 2 days left until 1.2!!! 🦀🥳

Remember that there's more to discover in each of these teasers than just the obvious thing we're showing...

Did you spot anything interesting in today's video?

Hey Crabbies, I come bearing some great news:

1.2 will release on the 13th of August (in 3 days!)

Until then, let's keep this hype train going with today's teaser! 👀

Howdy Crabbies, ready for another teaser for the upcoming 1.2 update??? This one is a personal favourite of mine! 🦀

Let me know your thoughts on this and remember to be on the lookout for non-obvious additions too 🕵️

Hey Crabbies, here's today's teaser for the upcoming 1.2 update!

Any guesses what these new Genetics will do? 🦀

Hey Crabbies, 1.2 is just around the corner (figuratively speaking).

We've got some pretty cool stuff we'll be adding and I'll be sharing the daily teasers with you between now and release.

Each one has several additions, some of which should be obvious at a 1st glance and some decidedly more hidden for you to sleuth out! 🦀

Lets start with this one... What does everyone spot in this initial teaser? 🕵️

Hey Crabbies

We’ve got a whole pile of updates for you today, so let’s get right into it.

Everything is Crab on GeForce NOW

Everything is Crab is now available on GeForce NOW. You can already jump in and play through cloud streaming! 🦀

1.2 Teasers & Crab Rolls

1.2 is coming 🔜. That means official teasers will be starting very 🔜

For now, we are having some fun in our Discord with what we call Crab Rolls. I'm posting the info on that below for those interested:

Every day for a week starting today we will roll 2d6 (dice) on video and send you the first half of the reel without revealing the results in the #👀teasers Discord channel. Along with it, we’ll open a poll so you can collectively decide which number you think the dice will land on.

You have 24 hours to vote! Once the poll closes, we’ll post the full unedited roll so you can see exactly what happened. The server’s official guess will be the number that receives the most votes.

If either die matches the server’s guess, the server wins and everyone (even if your personal guess was different!) gets an early bonus content video which may be an early 1.2 reward, it may be a devfail or possibly an inside devlife video or something else entirely... Who knows⁉️

To clarify, you will have six attempts to win and a maximum of three early teasers to unlock!

The 1st one is already available for voting 🎲 GL & HF friends!

Steam Sale

Last but not least! Everything is Crab is currently 20% off on Steam. If you haven’t picked it up yet, now’s a great time to check out the sale.

If you want to show your support towards us (a tiny team doing our 1st project as a studio), we also have 13% off of the Supporter Pack bundle (it doesn't have a gameplay impact but does unlock some cool unique cosmetics and lets us know the game/team has supporters!)

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Stay crabby friends 🦀

Hey Crabbies 🦀

Today, we've had a small Hotfix go live for Everything is Crab that fixes some highly reported community bugs, and the community evolution competition has opened up to community voting!

We also held our AMA last Friday; later this week, we'll be posting the Q&A's here for everyone to be able to read! For now, a recording of it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IdPyvmz8Zw

Patch Notes

• Fixed stoner Specialisations not activating if gained while unequipped
• Fixed key movement input bindings resetting after restarting the client
• Fixed Twitch extension sometimes sending dual polls, causing it to break
• Fixed input device rapidly swapping between keyboard and mouse
• Fixed boss fruit not always being consumed if collected on the same frame as eating other food
• Fixed Stubborn tooltip not always showing on POI and Evolution menus

And if you missed it, we recently released the HUGE 1.1 update, so be sure to check out all the additions and changes in Everything is Crab (10 pages worth!)

Community Evolution Competition

The submissions have been voted on by the teams at Odd Dreams Digital and Secret Mode. We've narrowed it down to the top ten, but the evolutionary path is now in your hands!

Vote here: https://forms.gle/gAZtY4bMkNz23DuV9

Vote by ranking every submission from 1 to 5 stars, 1 being "Not Keen" and 5 being "Love Love Love". Voting closes on Monday 13th July 12 pm BST.

• Sticky Tongue by .telandria -Shoutout to .playpal for a similar submission
• Feathers by very_crunchy5668 -Shoutout to chiggymeese1_32287, piratequeen1017, and vodka_my_beloved for similar submissions
• Camouflage by .prof_v
  • Shoutout to catgirldragon151, imjay_, moonfry, snegglepuss, and onelonemelon for similar submissions
• Scent Glands by Skunkrocker
• Lamp by thedertiz
  • Shoutout to .arjayjay for a similar submission
• Roar by wrenderdraws
  • Shoutout to digitalkibou for a similar submission
• Spinnerets by abelhawk
• Pedal Glands by _de3
  • Shoutout to eezda and asher_delmasca for similar submissions
• Lithophagy by mykoloth94
• Batsian Mimicry by queenofbones
  • Shoutout to lob_is_lob and diggerahkor for a similar submission

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That's all for now, thanks Crabbies! 🦀

Ask Us Anything & MORE

Hey everyone,

To celebrate our 1st patch/update (1.1), we are hosting a brand new Ask Us Anything event this Friday (3rd July) at 18:30 CEST (09:30 PDT)

The AMA will last for around an hour here in the Discord server

^(yes we know Ask Us Anything is more "AUA" but "AMA" is well known/established so we'll stick with that 😁)

Have a burning question you want us to answer? Simply send in your questions ahead of time through this form: https://forms.gle/xaYvx44LLYFcgYk47

Please note that we will try to answer as many as we can but depending on the volume we receive, we may be limited by time. But we'll try to get through them as best we can! 🦀

Once we go live, you can watch the whole thing in the "Events 🎉" channel on our Discord

If you want to add the event to your Discord calendar, use this link:
https://discord.gg/eic?event=1521256014509375540

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We hope you've all been enjoying 1.1 so far and keep your eyes peeled in the near(ish) future for updates on 1.2 🫣

Have a Crabby day friends!! 🦀🦀🦀

Hey everyone, dev from Odd Dreams Digital (creators of Everything is Crab) here.

We just released a massive 1st patch and feel it's a good time to share the game with you all 🦀

No idea what Everything is Crab (AKA "EIC") is? It's:

The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 135+ 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!

In summary: eat, evolve, survive and create unique looking and playing creatures with every run!

Here's an early version of the 1.1 update from one of our players/big fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0sEOFUA9r4

Familiar with the game?

Full patch notes can be found here:

• Steam Patch Notes
• Discord Patch Notes

Fair warning: there's a LOT to read through!

High Level Overview

• 8 new abilities (2 new Evolutions & 6 Specialisations)
• 10 new Achievements
• 8 new Cosmetics
• Official Twitch Extension support
• Big balance pass (Enemies, Evolutions, Genetics, you name it!)
• Splicing 2.0
• Rebinding support
• New Accessibility options
• Majorly improved meta-progression unlocks of Evolutions
• Tonnes of Quality of Life improvements
• New mechanics and reworks of existing ones (oh hey there Courting you're looking mighty fine today!)
• Loooots of bugfixes!

There's actually 10 pages of Patch Notes so the above is a tiny part of all that.

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If you are a new or returning player, we'd love to hear your thoughts 💖

Have a Crabtastic day everyone, Cheers from the ODD Team 🦀🦀🦀

Hey everyone it's finally time: 1.1 is here! Check your Steam Library to play the latest & greatest version of Everything is Crab 🦀

Full patch notes can be found here:

• Steam Patch Notes
• Discord Patch Notes

Fair warning: there's a LOT to read through!

High Level Overview

• 8 new abilities (2 new Evolutions & 6 Specialisations)
• 10 new Achievements
• 8 new Cosmetics
• Official Twitch Extension support
• Big balance pass (Enemies, Evolutions, Genetics, you name it!)
• Splicing 2.0
• Rebinding support
• New Accessibility options
• Majorly improved meta-progression unlocks of Evolutions
• Tonnes of Quality of Life improvements
• New mechanics and reworks of existing ones (oh hey there Courting you're looking mighty fine today!)
• Loooots of bugfixes!

There's actually 10 pages of Patch Notes so the above is a tiny part of all that.

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We genuinely cannot wait to hear your thoughts on this version and we'll be back with a new 1.2 update 🔜™️

Have a Crabtastic day everyone, Cheers from the ODD Team 🦀🦀🦀

Hey Crabbies, last update/teaser before we go live in 12 hours!

Today's teaser may feel small but it's going to have big impacts as a new mechanic in 1.1 and beyond!

Any thoughts on what it may be?

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If you're keen to see a tiny sample of the updates coming in 1.1, check out the 1.1 Release Date & Teasers Part 2 post.

See you in 12 hours 🦀🦀🦀

Hey Crabbies,

Sorry for the late post today, we finished wrapping up the 1.1 build earlier this morning and I may have fallen into a deeper "10 minute nap" than I had planned 😅

Here's the teaser from our Discord & Socials from today (full video can be found in any of them if you're interested).

For those of you that aren't convinced by Stoner (and there be many!) this should help make it a bit more appealing. I cant reveal what these Specialisations do (although I'd love to see your guesses!!), however I can say that they're some of the more unique ones that will be in the game for 1.1!

Tomorrow will be our final teaser before the big update!

If you're keen to see a tiny sample of the updates coming in 1.1, check out the 1.1 Release Date & Teasers Part 2 post I made yesterday.

I'll catch you all tomorrow (sooner rather than later this time 😁) 🦀

Hey Crabbies, I'm back with another big update!

When's 1.1? I need it Noooooooow!

You've heard rumours of 1.1 coming 🔜™️ and they are indeed true!

We will be releasing on Thursday 25th at 10am BST (yup in just 3 days! 🦀)

What's new in 1.1?

Lots! Honestly there's a HUGE amount coming in 1.1 (we're currently trimming down 10 pages of the full Patch Notes 😵‍💫)...

Here's a few of the highlights:

New Evolutions and Specialisations

• New Passive and Ultimate evolutions
• New Specialisations for Leech, Spur and more
• Not yet including the winner from the Community Competition; we're still clawing through all 450+ entries!! This will arrive in 1.2 with a poll sent out beforehand for everyone to vote on which of the shortlisted 10 will be added

Balance Changes

• Players will gain up to 1HP for every level up
• Many Evolution buffs

Splicing 2.0

• Once Splicing is unlocked, it will always be available in Pressure runs!

Quality of Life Improvements, Including:

• Rebinding support
• Codex accessible during runs
• Mutagen points and a screenshot option appearing in the pause screen
• Night brightness adjustment option in Settings

Bug Fixes, Including:

• Mushrooms XP is now increased by Herbivore and Vegan
• Endless runtimes showing the wrong number of minutes into the run
• Numerous adjustments to attacks, enemies and evolutions
• Plus many, many more!

Twitch Extension

Help shape Darwin's evolutionary path when a streamer plays with the Everything is Crab Extension!

May Madness

We were in the top 12 releases in all of Steam in May 🤯

More Teasers

Also included in the attached pictures are some screenshots of today's daily 1.1 teaser (full video can be seen on our Discord)

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Cheers Crabbies,

See you tomorrow for the next Teaser update and on Thursday for 1.1! 🦀🦀🦀

Hey Crabbies!

Over on our Discord we've been posting some Teasers daily so I thought I'd grab some screenshot grabs from the videos we've posted so far for those of you who don't have access there.

There's a lot of hidden little improvements in these screenshots/videos in addition to the obvious bigger reveals/teases.

Stay tuned for more updates 🔜™️

Cheers 🦀

Hey everyone, we're back with some extra amazing news today

500k Crabbies

It's been just over 1 month since we launched and we've just hit 500k sales 🤯 🏆 🔥

We're as chuffed as can be! Your love and interest of the game is helping ensure we go the extra mile(s) to add as much cool stuff as we can in the upcoming updates (I'm really excited for our 1.1 big update in the coming weeks!)

500k... absolutely bonkers in ~1 month! Now lets see if we can share the word of crab with the rest of the world 🦀 🦀 🦀

Stats from month 1

Similar to how we did during the Playtests and Demo, we want to occasionally share some stats of how the game is going so far overall.

-# Note: The actual numbers will be higher than this as it doesn't account for anyone who opted out of telemetry but this should give a pretty good indication

-# Note: This data was true as of 8th June 2026 so slightly outdated but we wanted to capture a snapshot of it at 1 month in

Runs

• More than 16 million runs have been played by ~500k players!
• ~440 million Evolutions have been chosen
• That's an average of ~879 Evolutions per person across their runs ❤️‍🔥
• 10% of players have played at least 20 hours & 1% of players have played 50+ hours already 🤯

Evolutions

• 🤤 Unsurprisingly, Saliva reigns once again the most used Evolution making up ~4% of ALL choices
  • It has a ~32% Chosen rate (when offered) 👀
• 🐍 Constriction is currently the least used Evolution at ~0% of ALL choices with a mere ~16% Chosen rate (when offered) 🪦
  • This one makes sense as you need to beat all Tier 7 Challenges to unlock it (changes to that coming in 1.1! Hoping to see it pick up some fans soon 🤞)
• 🫎 Antlers is the least Chosen (when offered) Evolution with a tiny pick rate of only ~10%
  • For those of you in this category: I really encourage you to try it, it has a 40% win rate when chosen and can create some very interesting archetypes due to the self-damage mechanic!

Challenges

• Chaos Theory seems to be the easiest Challenge for everyone at a massive ~50.6% win rate!
• Boss Rush & Wounded are the most difficult with ~2.6% and ~2.4% win rates respectively
  • People find Unintelligent Design a bit easier at ~3.8% win rate

POIs

• 75.5 million POIs were visited making that an average of ~151 POIs visited per player!
• ~17 million of those visits were to Mud Pond alone (that's 22% of all visits to just that! 😵‍💫)
• 🪷 Lotus Plant was the least visited at only ~2 million visits (or just ~2.7% of all visits)

Genetics

Across all runs:

• Most picked Genetic: Standard at ~19.5% of all picks
  • Followed closesly by Spawn of Chaos at ~12% of all picks
• Least picked Genetic: Underdog at 0.1% of picks (that's depressing to see given how good it is 😂)
  • 2nd least: Precocious at 0.5% of picks (but this makes sense given the unlock condition is P20)

Genetics Stats from the most experienced of Crabbies

The above was for everyone, lets take a look at our best players playing at P20:

• Highest win rate at P20: Pacifist at ~15%
  • followed by Minimalist at 14.2% and Vegan at 14%
• Lowest win rate at P20: Spawn of Chaos at 4.2%
  • followed by Simple at 5.1%

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I hope you found these stats interesting & entertaining! Be sure to let us know if you want to see more stats like this in the future! -# we won't do it every month but can do it from time to time on special occasions or on a semi-regular basis based on interest levels 🙂

Cheers Crabbies, have a Crabtastic day! 🦀