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Another Crab's Treasure Devs Already Working on Next Game

Joshua Duckworth — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:00:18 GMT

Another Crab's Treasure, a Soulslike game featuring a colorful story with some dark undertones, releases on April 25. Not only is anticipation at an all-time high because it's a day-one release for Xbox Game Pass, but because the core concept for a Soulslike game is something so unlike others in the genre. It'll be interesting to see how that translates to gameplay at release, but it's fair to say that it's a promising concept.

Another Crab's Treasure Devs Talk Shell Design, The Glock, and More

Katelyn Kivel — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:00:14 GMT

When Game Rant spoke to developers at Aggro Crab, the team behind Another Crab’s Treasure, taking a dive into the lore of why firearms can operate underwater was understandably a priority. In Another Crab’s Treasure, an upcoming underwater Soulslike game, the player takes on the role of a crab after the cast-off trash of the human world becomes the most critical resource of crabkind. That includes not only the trash fashioned into shells by the hermit crabs, but the weapons they can use to defend themselves and their haul. Although players won't find it scattered along other weapons in the game, protagonist Kril can pull out a Glock whenever he needs to solve a problem.

How Another Crab's Treasure Breaks a Golden Rule of Game Development

Josh Cotts — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:00:14 GMT

There are developers and games that try to abide by certain unwritten rules of game development, and then there is Aggro Crab and its upcoming Soulslike, Another Crab's Treasure. By and large, Another Crab's Treasure is unlike any Soulslike game ever made and will likely be the only one of its kind for quite some time — unless Aggro Crab chooses to develop another.

How Another Crab's Treasure Balances Blocking, Parrying, and Dodging

Gemma Johnson — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:00:13 GMT

Another Crab's Treasure is a Soulslike game with a crab protagonist named Kril and an underwater setting, both leaps and bounds away from the typical Soulslike formula that most fans are familiar with. However, indie game studio Aggro Crab pushes the boundaries of the genre with its upcoming Soulslike game on Xbox Game Pass, consoles, and PC. Often, indie games are where a lot of innovation in game development takes place, so while Another Crab's Treasure playfully differs from Soulslike tradition, fans may also be curious to know how it also makes use of features more commonplace in the genre, specifically combat mechanics.

How Another Crab's Treasure Comments On Pollution

Adrienne Romero — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:30:13 GMT

Another Crab's Treasurewill take players into the depths of the sea as they follow the journey of a lone hermit crab, Kril, who is set on reclaiming his home. In Another Crab's Treasure, players are not only taken on a dark-fantasy adventure, but they also witness how the underwater society that the creatures have always known changes after trash starts contaminating their habitat.

Another Crab's Treasure's Bobbit Worm Explained

Katelyn Mitchell Jewett — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:00:13 GMT

Many terrifying creatures call the ocean their home, but few are as nightmarish as the Bobbit Worm. This sinister predator lurks beneath the sand, ready to devour fish, coral, and more in its powerful jaws. It makes a terrifying foe to fight in the underwater Soulslike game Another Crab's Treasure, a fact which the developers took full advantage of. Developer Aggro Crab re-imagined Another Crab's Treasure's Bobbit Worm as a tough Dark Souls-style enemy for protagonist Kril to face.

Another Crab's Treasure: The Life Force of Umami Explained

Adrienne Romero — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:00:14 GMT

Like in any fantasy game, there are always questions about how characters gain their specific skills or unique superpowers. In Another Crab's Treasure, the answer is no different: it comes from a different life force. Of course, the explanation can't be simplified to just that and, for Kril, the hermit crab protagonist, learning new abilities in Another Crab's Treasure doesn't come that easy either.

Another Crab's Treasure Devs Detail Its Underwater Setting

Katelyn Mitchell Jewett — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:00:14 GMT

The upcoming underwater Soulslike game Another Crab's Treasure is dedicated to portraying many different aspects of the ocean. From colorful coral reefs to the darkest depths of the trenches, protagonist Kril will have quite a vast and varied world to journey through as he seeks to recover his shell, clear his debt, and save his home tide pool. Aggro Crab, the developer of Another Crab's Treasure, knew pretty much from the start that they wanted to make an underwater game. This vision led to an undersea setting that was cohesive and fun to explore while also bringing in that trademark Dark Souls difficulty.

Another Crab's Treasure Devs Talk Putting a Colorful Twist on Soulslike Games

Joey Brown — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:00:14 GMT

Another Crab's Treasure is undoubtedly one of the most unique Soulslikes to hit the genre in quite some time, flaunting a bubbly nautical aesthetic and a cast of aquatic creatures as opposed to skeletons, demons, and monsters. The game cleverly leverages the trash-inhabiting lifestyle of hermit crabs by making garbage the foundation of its equipment system, leading to a Soulslike arsenal with surprising variety both mechanically and visually that also touches on very real issues with underwater pollution and climate catastrophes.

How Another Crab's Treasure Devs Chose Which Sea Creatures to Include

Katelyn Mitchell Jewett — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:00:14 GMT

Another Crab's Treasure is a game about crabs - but it's not just that. Protagonist Kril will encounter a wide variety of sea creatures as he journeys to clear his debt, find his shell, and save his tide pool home from the Duchess of Slack Tide.As players journey through Another Crab's Treasure, they will encounter allies and enemies ranging from shrimp, eels, and fish to the nightmarish Bobbit Worm. Deciding which sea creatures to include, developer Aggro Crab Games revealed, involved considering both their abilities and how they worked as Dark Souls-style enemies.