Just months after the release of Another Crab's Treasure on Switch, developer Aggro Crab has decided to release an early playable prototype of the underwater soulslike, which was originally shown to investors.
According to an official post, this "first build" was made back in February 2021 and can be completed in "about 3-5 minutes", so expect some crazy speedruns. This short build includes the "OG Kril" and "an enemy you might recognize" that also made it into the full release.
If you are having any trouble with this build of the game though, here's your reminder that it is only a prototype and "what you sea is what ya get":
"What you sea is what ya get! Haha get it. It's like the whole ocean thing again. Ok but seriously have fun diving in. Remember that this was a prototype to show investors, not made for the general public. No takesies backsies if it does not run well!!"
You can download Another Crab's Treasure Protytpe for PC via itch.io
When Another Crab's Treasure made its debut on the Switch in April 2024, it quickly surpassed over 100k sales in its opening weekend. The Switch version did admittedly suffer from some "crabby" performance problems on release but there was still a lot to love in terms of the game's design, mechanics and boss fights.
Have you played this game on the Switch yet? Any interest in checking out the early prototype? Let us know below.
[source aggrocrab.itch.io, via gamedeveloper.com]
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Some of the big publishers these days probably would have just released this as the full game.
It might sound kind of silly, but this is one game that I'm hugely hoping the Switch Successor can help. It looks awesome, but I don't want to deal with the frame dips.
@Mrkittyhead And this is why Nintendo’s generational leap is going to feel seismic. With that stupid PS5 Pro focusing on hair strands’ worth of detail for the grand price of one kidney, just having a portable console running modern games natively and at a good frame rate will be a godsend. None of your mid-gen nonsense, just going from an ancient mobile processor to something slightly modern.
I'm glad this game was received well by players as I thought it was fun. Handheld performance was a bit poor but docked mode was fine for me ❤️
Pretty cool, might eventually give this prototype a try myself!
And yes, this is among the games I really hope that Switch's successor can improve, too!
@nessisonett
Honestly, at this point, I feel like that's the dream.
this game is a lot of fin, pretty long and a mice story. i would would double dip on a new switch version.
@nessisonett
yeah for me the "wow factor" of a generational leap in hardware for me has been more in the handheld scene over the past decade or so.
was one of the dozens of people who had a vita and playing that for the first time i found more impressive than going from ps3-ps4 then going from that to playing botw on switch was really cool at the time.
as you mentioned having a dedicated handheld playing modern games with a decent performance would be awesome, really the only thing im apprehensive about would be if there was some addition, feature of caveat which i found really unappealing (or some BS like what xbox tried to pull of initially with xbox one before the backlash)
heck while the ps5pro doesn't interest me in the slightest i would be all over a new portable playstation (hopefully learning from the vitas mistakes)
apologies for the ramble but in short yeah, for me a dedicated handheld with the option to play on TV is pretty much the ideal gaming system.
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