I hope none of you’re allergic to shellfish, as a result of Shrimp Recreation is strictly what it feels like: a recreation about shrimp! And but that could be a full bastardisation of what it’s, for you don’t merely play as a shrimp, you’re 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 try 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 select components on your shrimp, however you do pilot it as if it have been a mech, zooming across the seascape, taking pictures at different fishes and the like together with your skills. These skills are based mostly on parts like fireplace and earth, or gentle and darkish, and you’ll even combine and match them to a sure diploma. Additionally, you will discover, amazingly, which you can play the sport’s marketing campaign in six-player co-op, or you’ll be able to check out its PvP modes like “Shrimp Royale, Shrimp Tag, and Seize the Turtle!”
Shrimp Recreation at present 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 out there too – and it’s as frenetic as it’s wacky. Enemy assaults strategy you in any respect angles, that you must be always 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 is perhaps to really feel this manner about one thing known as Shrimp Recreation, I actually vibed with its salty hellscape. I wish to study 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’ll be able to wishlist the sport on Steam (and check out the demo) proper now.
