Crablike
A downloadable game
Crablike is a traditional dungeon-crawler roguelike, following in the footsteps of the original Rogue, where you play as a crab. The whole game takes place underwater, as you travel across the ocean to find the source of a mysterious corruption that is turning all sea life against each other. Do you have the cunning, strategy, and tenacity to survive in the hostile depths?
Of course you do. You're a crab. The pinnacle of evolution.
Features
- Procedurally-generated dungeon layouts
- Multiple towns and dungeons connected by an overarching ocean map
- Friendly NPCs who will aid you on your quest
- Randomized equipment and items
- Five types of crabs to play as - guardian, berserker, spearfisher, aquamancer, and lurker
- A wide variety of sea creatures, some fantastical and some based in the real ocean
- Bizarre behaviors of real animals faithfully reproduced in the game
- Inscribe runes onto your shell to imbue it with special properties
- Molt your shell to increase your potential and gain new abilities
- Sea anemones and clownfish are friends
- Learn real fish facts
- Multiple endings
Take up your weapons, don your armor, and descend into the depths. If anyone can save the ocean, it's a crab with a big sword.
Most recent update: v1.0.8
- Fixed a bug where unidentified items would display their effects in the description panel.
- Fixed a bug where the Metabolic and Ascetic runes didn't actually change your hunger rate.
- Added a check to prevent items with a quantity of 0 being generated.
- Friendly mobs that aren't already hostile are now immune to bolt spells.
- Enemies heal over time even when the player is on a different floor.
- Runic Circles give more detailed information about runes.
Download
Install instructions
Extract zip file and run "Crablike.exe". Requires the .NET Desktop Runtime to play.
Comments
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Just stumbled upon this roguelike and was wondering if there is a way to download older versions?
Hello! I'm afraid the older versions aren't available at the moment, and I'm not sure how itchio pages generally organize multiple versions of a game. Just for posterity, though, here's the very buggy initial release version.
Thanks for supplying a link to that download. I try to collect and archive roguelikes when I find them on an external harddrive, sort of like a gaming library and history of roguelikes past and present. If by chance you could upload previous versions from 1.0 onward to a mediafire folder, I would be very grateful, if not no worries.
Sure, I don't see why not. Here's all past versions, plus a number of pre-release builds for fun. No guarantees on quality or even completability.
That is awesome, thank you so much for doing that!
Pretty cool little rogue-like, I enjoyed it. All but the last floor was pretty easy and I beat it on my first try but that makes sense if this is just a little first couple floors demo. The abyssal priest guy was difficult and I felt he was pretty well balanced. I also liked the hag fish's slow down goo attack, that was cool.
I never got an item with a bad effect, which is interesting for a game with an identification system, though maybe I just didn't chug enough potions. I did get a charm of teleportation which I guess could have been dangerous if I had first used it at a base time.
Keep at it, could be really good if you keep playing into unique mechanics like with the hag fish or the star fish which I think could split on death.
I finished with 2072 points.
Thanks for playing! You are correct in that I balanced it pretty easy on purpose, due to this just being the first dungeon.
There definitely are bad items - you just got lucky. I'll probably make the ratio overall meaner in the final game.