I'm begging more devs to do this: indie gives out the prototype of its great Soulslike – "Do not tell me if you run into a bug I will hunt you down I do not care"

Oct. 4, 2024

“No takesies backsies if it does not run well!”

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Another Crab’s Treasure, this year’s shellfish soulslike, won over hardenedFromSoftveterans and genre newbies alike with its sillier, lovelier take on the Dark Souls formula - and you can now see what it looked like years before all the crabtastic acclaim.

Another Crab’s Prototype has all the charming quirks of the full game condensed into a shorter stint - human rubbish gets recycled as shells that you can block and parry with, for example. But the biggest difference is that the prototype also features a voice-over from a David Atennborough-like voice who narrates your every move as if he’s also been sucked into the Stanley Parable offices.

Another Crab’s Treasure developers were so sick of clones that they resorted “to just making fun of the guy” who ripped off their crab-tivating soulslike.

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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.

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