Crab God preview – I will protect these crablings with my life
For the tiny little crablings of Crab God, life is hard. These microscopic creatures awaken to find themselves thrust into a harsh world of environmental deterioration and in desperate need of defense, food, and shelter. Breaking out of their eggs, they quickly grab their tools and go to work, under the protective eye of the kind, enormous Crab God.
You are the spirit's avatar in Crab God, providing the crablings with a helping hand as they travel and make their way to their next migration site. After assigning each crabling a mission, they will go about their everyday lives, protecting their region, worshiping the crab god, and eventually moving on. They will also assist in gathering food to bulk for a new migration.
The game's Steam Next Fest demo showed off the initial steps of this voyage, each migration accompanied with a charming sense of adventure. You will descend into deeper ocean depths as you gather resources and fortify your crablings. Each layer will be home to new dangers, so you'll need to create a plan of action and then tweak it when new species jeopardize your tranquility.
Your crablings will acquire new skills with every level, enabling them to increase their movement speed, health, attack power, and other attributes. They are all given names, so it won't take long for you to start referring to your little hunting buddy Snippy as your friend. The game's crablings are cute, and it's simple to develop a bond with them.
Crab God makes you want to do right by your crablings
By design, Crab God is adorable, and every crabling is a cute friend you want to keep safe. In addition to developing your plan to advance, you'll do it out of concern for the well-being and security of your crablings. As you navigate the game's migration map, your flock will expand as well, so you'll constantly have space in your heart for new crabling companions.
At first, strategy systems seem simple, with players playing the part of idlers, giving responsibilities to crabs and guaranteeing progress in each game biome. However, as you go farther, you'll have to consider your options more carefully.
Your ultimate objective is to move in order to protect the Crab God's egg, but you also need to think about raising soldiers to guard your colony's perimeter at night. You'll need to provide space for farmers to cultivate crops, worshippers to honor and maintain the health and happiness of the Crab God, and gardeners to plant their crops. The key is balance.
This strategy has some similarities to the Cult of the Lamb in that you're essentially training a flock of followers and using them to further your migration objectives. Although there is less of a cult element in this game, similar managerial structures and a cutesy-horror vibe should not be missed.
The game's crablings are quite adorable, as was already noted, but along the way they'll encounter terrifying monsters like long-legged spiders and other terrifying creatures.
It's also important to note that the demo provided additional insight into the developer Chaos Theory Games' plans to have the game have an actual environmental impact. In addition to being adorable and whimsical, Crab God was thoughtfully designed to take into account actual migration patterns and the biodiversity of ocean biomes.
For the game's release, Chaos Theory has also teamed up with dots.eco, a company that tracks virtual in-game milestones in order to plant trees, clean up the ocean, and save species. Upon starting the demo, a tracker will appear on the screen which will show you the environmental impact and goals that players of Crab God have achieved.
GamesHub was informed about this endeavor by Nico King, Executive Creative Director of Chaos Theory, who stated, "From the beginning, we wanted Crab God to positively impact the planet." We made the early decision to contribute a portion of the game's earnings to environmental causes. But we also wanted to make sure that the user could clearly see the causes we were supporting—ideally, we wanted to include them into the gameplay itself.
Crab God's environmental impact is already noticeable, even with its new Steam Next Fest demo, and that's a beautiful thing. You will be able to influence the real-world environment each time you play the game, which is a great reason to give it a try if you need one.
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