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! 🦀

Hey Crabbies,

As we scuttle towards one month since the launch of Everything is Crab, our team wanted to check in with some news and reminders on what’s to come. A Japanese spider crab-sized thank you to everyone who has played, supported, and spoken with us already – we’ve been blown away by it all! We’re constantly gathering your feedback and looking at how it can be addressed in the game. Speaking of which…

Following the first post-launch hotfix in May, we’re now working on a more significant update for June. As well as further bug-squashing, this update will bring in changes and gameplay tweaks that are driven by community feedback. This includes rebalancing some Evolutions, with the goal of making more build archetypes even more viable and discoverable.

More Evolution + Specialisation options and other minor mechanics will be made, also encouraging you to mix things up. Changes to Metaprogression will be made too, facilitating the unlock of new evolutions and enabling new archetypes faster. Difficulty adjustments will be made so that many archetypes are less RNG-dependant and less tempted to spec into survivability, resulting in more consistently powerful Darwins!

The above is just the beginning in terms of addressing feedback, resolving commonly-reported issues, and making Everything is Crab even more enjoyable. Each patch and update will come with changes that aim for this goal. For example, we know lots of folks would love to see a ‘mid-run save’ option, and the ability to open your trusty Codex mid-run. Changes to the Splicing options have also been mentioned. We’re keen to address all of these, and you'll even get to see some of these already in 1.1 (which is coming 🔜™️)

We know there’s more we can address, such as variety in enemies and maps, and even more Evolutions. Frustration points like some heavy-handed enemies at the start of a run, and bosses being less aggressive after surrendering, are noted too. We’re looking forward to further addressing all these and seeing what you think!

The changes above are just part of Everything is Crab’s roadmap of fun ‘n’ games over the coming months. More Quality of Life improvements, content drops, and even Twitch extensions are all on the way. Check out our roadmap blog to see more.

Community Evolution Competition

A reminder that we are running a competition in our Discord for an Evolution created by one of you to appear in the 1.2 patch which will end on 12th June See here for details

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Cheers Crabbies, we're looking forward to the 1.1 update later this month! 🦀

Hey everyone, starting RIGHT NOW in our Discord, and running until Friday, 12 June 2026 at 1pm CEST, you will be able to submit an idea for a new evolution to be added to the game in a future update. We know a lot of you have had new evolution ideas for Everything is Crab, and we want to give you all a way to submit them and be part of the selection process! At the end of the competition, there will be two rounds of voting: firstly, an internal vote for Odd Dreams Digital & Secret Mode, and then the top ten will have a second round of community voting, where ONE WINNER will be selected. Rules:

1. Competition ends on Friday, 12 June 2026 1pm CEST
2. One submission per member
3. Your entry must be submitted as a singular forum post in the #⁠evolution-competition channel (in our Discord)
4. No use of AI tools or programs allowed
5. Nothing NSFW or offensive
6. Describe what the Evolution does
7. Describe/draw how it will affect Darwin’s look, if it does

Welcome, but not required:

• What real-life animal does it come from?
• Describe/draw the artwork for the icon
• A fact for the back of the evolution card

We can't wait to see your Evolution submissions, resulting in one of your ideas making it into the actual game!

400,000 Crabs strong!!

We’ve officially passed 400,000 sales in under two weeks. That is absolutely incredible, and we’re so grateful to everyone who’s joined the swarm so far.

Thank you all again for the incredible support! Stay crabby friends 🦀