Another Crab's Treasure

Item: Another Crab's Treasure
Rating: 88
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-06-04

Summary

Visually appealing, creative world with engaging story.
Humorous and charming Soulslike experience.
Balanced, accessible combat with customizable difficulty.
Buggy, unpolished, and has technical issues.
Uninspired enemy and boss design.
Poor map design and confusing navigation.

Categories

Soulslike Combat Open-World Exploration Platformer Equipment Customization Character Progression Treasure Hunting Resource Management

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 68%
Unhelpful reviews: 32%
Protest reviews: 0%

88%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
12%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 3585
Negative points: 1855
Gameplay points: 546
Perf. points: 91
Rec. points: 879
Misc points: 184

Point	Description	Importance
Visually appealing, creative world Description The game features a unique and creative art style, with colorful visuals, adorable character designs, and imaginative environments. The world is filled with details that show the developers' love and care, creating a visually appealing and immersive experience. This point highlights the game's artistic achievements and its ability to create a memorable and engaging world. Importance 95%	The game features a unique and creative art style, with colorful visuals, adorable character designs, and imaginative environments. The world is filled with details that show the developers' love and care, creating a visually appealing and immersive experience. This point highlights the game's artistic achievements and its ability to create a memorable and engaging world.	95%
Engaging story with depth Description The game's story is a major strength, with engaging characters, relatable themes, and emotional impact. The narrative builds up well and blends souls-like elements with the game's whimsical setting, delivering a message about creating positive change. This point emphasizes the game's ability to tell a compelling story that resonates with players. Importance 92%	The game's story is a major strength, with engaging characters, relatable themes, and emotional impact. The narrative builds up well and blends souls-like elements with the game's whimsical setting, delivering a message about creating positive change. This point emphasizes the game's ability to tell a compelling story that resonates with players.	92%
Humorous and charming experience Description The game is praised for its humor, charm, and lighthearted tone, which sets it apart from other souls-like games. It features funny dialogue, comical situations, and well-executed jokes, creating an enjoyable and memorable experience. This point reflects the game's ability to balance challenging gameplay with a fun and engaging narrative. Importance 90%	The game is praised for its humor, charm, and lighthearted tone, which sets it apart from other souls-like games. It features funny dialogue, comical situations, and well-executed jokes, creating an enjoyable and memorable experience. This point reflects the game's ability to balance challenging gameplay with a fun and engaging narrative.	90%
Balanced, accessible souls-like gameplay Description The game offers a balanced and accessible souls-like experience, with adjustable difficulty settings and assist modes that cater to different skill levels. The combat is challenging but fair, with well-designed boss fights and rewarding progression. This point highlights the game's ability to appeal to both new and experienced players of the genre. Importance 53%	The game offers a balanced and accessible souls-like experience, with adjustable difficulty settings and assist modes that cater to different skill levels. The combat is challenging but fair, with well-designed boss fights and rewarding progression. This point highlights the game's ability to appeal to both new and experienced players of the genre.	53%
Addresses environmental, social issues Description The game tackles serious themes such as ocean pollution, capitalism, and environmental awareness, delivering a message about creating positive change. The story effectively conveys these themes through the depiction of marine life affected by pollution and the consequences of human actions. This point highlights the game's ability to address important social issues in a meaningful and engaging way. Importance 11%	The game tackles serious themes such as ocean pollution, capitalism, and environmental awareness, delivering a message about creating positive change. The story effectively conveys these themes through the depiction of marine life affected by pollution and the consequences of human actions. This point highlights the game's ability to address important social issues in a meaningful and engaging way.	11%
Enjoyable and rewarding combat Description The combat system is enjoyable and rewarding, with satisfying boss fights and a sense of accomplishment when defeating enemies. The game features a variety of combat options and abilities, allowing players to customize their playstyle. This point highlights the game's core gameplay mechanics and its ability to create a fun and engaging combat experience. Importance 10%	The combat system is enjoyable and rewarding, with satisfying boss fights and a sense of accomplishment when defeating enemies. The game features a variety of combat options and abilities, allowing players to customize their playstyle. This point highlights the game's core gameplay mechanics and its ability to create a fun and engaging combat experience.	10%
Customizable difficulty, assist modes Description The game includes an assist mode with various options to adjust the difficulty, such as reducing enemy damage, increasing invincibility frames, and providing a powerful gun. These accessibility options make the game more approachable for players who struggle with difficult games or want a more relaxed experience. This point emphasizes the game's commitment to inclusivity and its ability to cater to a wide range of players. Importance 9%	The game includes an assist mode with various options to adjust the difficulty, such as reducing enemy damage, increasing invincibility frames, and providing a powerful gun. These accessibility options make the game more approachable for players who struggle with difficult games or want a more relaxed experience. This point emphasizes the game's commitment to inclusivity and its ability to cater to a wide range of players.	9%
Creative design, fun references Description The game showcases creativity in its design, with common items used as shells, weapons, and clothing in interesting ways. The enemies have creative ideas for using trash as weapons, and the game is full of references to other games and internet culture. This point highlights the game's originality and its ability to create a unique and memorable experience. Importance 8%	The game showcases creativity in its design, with common items used as shells, weapons, and clothing in interesting ways. The enemies have creative ideas for using trash as weapons, and the game is full of references to other games and internet culture. This point highlights the game's originality and its ability to create a unique and memorable experience.	8%
Unique and strategic shell mechanic Description The shell mechanic is a unique and innovative gameplay element, where players can switch between different shells to gain unique abilities and change their playstyle. This adds variety and strategic depth to combat, encouraging experimentation and adaptation. This point emphasizes the game's originality and its ability to create a fresh and engaging combat experience. Importance 7%	The shell mechanic is a unique and innovative gameplay element, where players can switch between different shells to gain unique abilities and change their playstyle. This adds variety and strategic depth to combat, encouraging experimentation and adaptation. This point emphasizes the game's originality and its ability to create a fresh and engaging combat experience.	7%
High level of enjoyment Description The reviewer expresses strong positive emotions towards the game, such as love, enjoyment, and surprise. Some reviewers played the game multiple times and achieved full completion, indicating a high level of engagement and satisfaction. This point reflects the game's ability to create a positive and memorable experience for players, but lacks specific details. Importance 6%	The reviewer expresses strong positive emotions towards the game, such as love, enjoyment, and surprise. Some reviewers played the game multiple times and achieved full completion, indicating a high level of engagement and satisfaction. This point reflects the game's ability to create a positive and memorable experience for players, but lacks specific details.	6%
Good entry point to Soulslike Description The game is a good entry point into the souls-like genre, offering a more accessible and less punishing experience than other titles. Its cute art style and balanced difficulty make it suitable for newcomers who are intimidated by the dark and gritty themes of traditional souls-like games. This point highlights the game's ability to introduce new players to the genre and provide a positive first experience. Importance 5%	The game is a good entry point into the souls-like genre, offering a more accessible and less punishing experience than other titles. Its cute art style and balanced difficulty make it suitable for newcomers who are intimidated by the dark and gritty themes of traditional souls-like games. This point highlights the game's ability to introduce new players to the genre and provide a positive first experience.	5%
Great and fitting soundtrack Description The game features a great soundtrack that complements the gameplay and enhances the overall experience. The music is well-composed, consistently enjoyable, and suits the atmosphere of the levels and boss fights. This point emphasizes the game's audio quality and its ability to create an immersive and engaging atmosphere. Importance 5%	The game features a great soundtrack that complements the gameplay and enhances the overall experience. The music is well-composed, consistently enjoyable, and suits the atmosphere of the levels and boss fights. This point emphasizes the game's audio quality and its ability to create an immersive and engaging atmosphere.	5%
Unexpectedly serious, emotional ending Description The game's story takes unexpected turns and becomes more serious towards the end, with emotional moments and a surprising ending. The game strikes a balance of optimism and pessimism in its messaging, leaving a lasting impression on players. This point highlights the game's ability to create a memorable and thought-provoking narrative experience. Importance 4%	The game's story takes unexpected turns and becomes more serious towards the end, with emotional moments and a surprising ending. The game strikes a balance of optimism and pessimism in its messaging, leaving a lasting impression on players. This point highlights the game's ability to create a memorable and thought-provoking narrative experience.	4%