Aggro Crab

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Aggro Crab
Industry Video games
Founded2019;6 years ago (2019)
Founders
  • Nick Kaman
  • Caelan Pollock
Headquarters
Seattle
,
United States
Number of employees
12
Website aggrocrab.com

Aggro Crab is an American independent video game developer and publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The studio was founded on January 1, 2019, and is commonly known for Going Under (2020), Another Crab's Treasure (2024) and Peak (2025). [1]

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History

Aggro Crab was founded by Nick Kaman and Caelan Pollock in 2019. [2] On September 24, 2020, the first game of Aggro Crab, a beat-em-up roguelike named Going Under was released. [3] The project received generally good reviews form critics. [4]

Announced in 2022, Aggro Crab's second game, Another Crab's Treasure was released on April 25, 2024. Developers stated that they wanted to make the game look as little as possible like other games of the Soulslike genre through a more colorful, more humorous approach. [5] Despite the game's positive reception, it did not satisfy the developers' expectations, given the time and resources spent on development. [6]

As a result, Aggro Crab decided to repeat the success of their first game, announcing Going Under 2 in 2025. In June 2025, differences in creative vision caused the new project to lose its funding, resulting in its cancellation. [6] The studio then worked in cooperation with indie-studio Landfall Games to develop a cooperative multiplayer climbing game named Peak . The game was initially developed by two studios in a month-long game jam in Seoul, similar to the development of Landfall's Content Warning the year prior. [7] Peak saw huge success, selling over 100,000 copies in first 24 hours. [8] [9]

On October 2, Aggro Crab announced Crashout Crew , a game described as a "wild co-op adventure". A demo version of the game was released on October 13. [10]

List of Games

YearTitlePlatform(s)Publisher(s)
2020 Going Under Windows, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch Team17
2024 Another Crab's Treasure Windows, Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 5, Nintendo SwitchAggro Crab
2025 Peak WindowsAggro Crab & Landfall Games
TBA Crashout Crew —Aggro Crab

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "About — Aggro Crab". aggrocrab.com. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Going Under PressKit — Aggro Crab". aggrocrab.com. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Going Under Review - Review". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Going Under critic reviews". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  5. ↑ Brown, Joey (April 18, 2024). "Another Crab's Treasure Devs Talk Putting a Colorful Twist on Soulslike Games". Game Rant. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Hernandez, Patricia (July 9, 2025). "The unlikely story behind Peak, the hot Steam game that's sold millions". Polygon. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  7. ↑ Lincoln Carpenter (June 24, 2025). "Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: 'We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month'". PC Gamer. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  8. ↑ Vatankhah, Shaun Cichacki, Anthony Franklin II, Brent Koepp, Ana Valens, and Matt (June 26, 2025). "Waypoint Mini Review Roundup Episode 7: 'PEAK'ing, Sneaking, and Point-And-Clicking. A Little Grand Strategy for Good Luck, Too". VICE. Retrieved October 11, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "Update: Aggro Crab and Landfall 'side hustle' Peak sold 1 million copies in six days". Game Developer. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  10. ↑ Hayner, Chris (October 11, 2025). "I'm Peak-Pilled And Not Ready For Another Aggro Crab Game". TheGamer. Retrieved October 14, 2025.
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