A 2-player crab PVP combat game. Supports controller and/or keyboard.
https://lukesteski.itch.io/crabby-game
November 28th to 30th, 2025
Theme: Evolution
Most Promising Game Award
Audience's Choice Award
Justine Dyker
Kate Lacerna
Geet Loomba
Luke Steski
We were inspired by the natural phenomenon of Carcinisation, an oddly common pattern in evolution where crustaceans convergently evolve towards looking like crabs.
This was first described in 1916 by the zoologist and carcinologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab." It has been observed over and over and has since been memorialised in many extremely specific but very good memes. A similar phenomenon is evident in insects, where beetles represent about 40% of arthropods and 25% of all animal species described so far, prompting similar jokes about evolution loving beetles.
Our game pays tribute to these darlings of evolution. As you play, you will unlock new "evolutions" to make your crab the crabbiest of crabs.
Evolution loves crabs and so do we. Crabs, evidently, are the ideal form.
Written in GDScript using Godot v4.5
All assets pulled from free-to-use Itch.io sources