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.

Crablike is far from complete; what's out so far is just a demo. In the demo, your goal is to reach the last floor of the Ocean Forest, retrieve the Shadow Pearl, and escape the dungeon alive.

Features present in the demo:

  • Procedurally-generated dungeon layouts
  • Randomized equipment and items to bring you victory
  • Three types of crabs to play as - guardian, berserker, or spearfisher
  • A wide variety of sea creatures, some fantastic and some based in the real ocean
  • Bizarre behaviors of real animals faithfully reproduced in the game
  • Sea anemones and clownfish are friends
  • Press ? when targeting a monster to open wikipedia and learn more about fish

Features to expect in the full game:

  • Multiple towns and dungeons connected by an overarching ocean map
  • Friendly NPCs who can aid you on your quest
  • Another four crab classes: Lurker, Aquamancer, Necromancer, and Hermit
  • Apply runic inscriptions to your shell to give yourself great powers at a price
  • Molt to increase your level cap and gain new powers
  • Multiple endings
  • Legendary weapons and more fearsome unique bosses
  • Grapple with water pressure in the extreme depths
  • More, weirder fish

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.

StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorQuinn2win
GenreRole Playing, Educational
TagsRetro, Roguelike

Download

Download
Crablike Demo v0.5.0.zip 6 MB

Install instructions

Extract zip file and run "Crablike.exe". Requires the .NET Desktop Runtime to play.

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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.

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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.