I hope none of you might be allergic to shellfish, as a result of Shrimp Recreation is strictly what it appears like: a recreation about shrimp! And but that may be a full bastardisation of what it’s, for you don’t merely play as a shrimp, you might be piloting a shrimp, or SHRIMP (Submersible Hydrodynamic Analysis Built-in Marine Platforms), and you have to survive a hellish underwater panorama crammed with sea creatures that attempt to see your life ended and “Lovecraftian bosses.”
There’s a trace of video games like Armored Core to be discovered right here, extra so in motion mechanics. You do not pick components to your shrimp, however you do pilot it as if it had been a mech, zooming across the seascape, taking pictures at different fishes and the like together with your talents. These talents are primarily based on components like fireplace and earth, or mild and darkish, and you’ll even combine and match them to a sure diploma. Additionally, you will discover, amazingly, that you may play the sport’s marketing campaign in six-player co-op, or you possibly can check out its PvP modes like “Shrimp Royale, Shrimp Tag, and Seize the Turtle!”
Shrimp Recreation at the moment has a demo on Steam that I spent a little bit of time with after recognizing it in The Digital Moose’s most up-to-date indie recreation round-up – simply within the marketing campaign mode, although its on-line mode is accessible too – and it’s as frenetic as it’s wacky. Enemy assaults method you in any respect angles, that you must be continuously conscious of your environment in any other case you will find yourself sleeping with the fishes, actually and figuratively.
Its world is tantalizingly bizarre and mysterious too, as foolish because it may be to really feel this manner about one thing referred to as Shrimp Recreation, I actually vibed with its salty hellscape. I wish to find out about why this world exists in the best way it does. I wish to perceive why I’ve to pilot the shrimp.
When can I do that? Nicely, someday in 2026, because it would not have a extra particular launch date past that, however you possibly can wishlist the sport on Steam (and check out the demo) proper now.
