Dark Souls-inspired Another Crab’s Treasure is the first crustacean Soulslike

Developer Aggro Crab revealed its next game, an adventure inspired by Dark Souls called Another Crab’s Treasure ,, in which players play as a hermit and attempt to recover its shell. This was shown during Nintendo’s Indie World stream. The hermit crab can find armor from the ocean, including cups and cans.

Like Aggro Crab’s debut game Going Under, a satirical take on the dungeon crawler set in the “cursed ruins of failed tech startups” where office junk served as weapons, Another Crab’s Treasure will goof on the “Soulslike” genre. (That is the brand of action games inspired by FromSoftware’s Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne.) Aggro Crab jokingly called its new game a “Shellslike” during its reveal, which showed a heroic hermit crab battling other crustaceans armed with, and decked out in, manmade sea trash.

Another Crab’s Treasure will maintain the challenging difficulty of Soulslike games, its creators says, as players battle ocean fauna with forks, knives, chopsticks, and over 50 potential scavenged items that can serve as temporary shells. The combat-heavy game of Crabs is made possible by their built-in weapons, the pinchy claws and natural strafing ability.

Another Crab’s Treasure will be released sometime in 2023, and will be available on Nintendo Switch and PC.