Shrimp

Shrimp is a third-person platformer in which you play as a shrimp in a bewildering void. You must complete an abandoned ritual, beginning by collecting all the cars across the levels. Horrific entities roam the levels and try to stop you; you cannot fight them, so you use your abilities to escape their death struggles and keep the shrimp’s anxiety under control as you search for the truth.

Levels and challenges

The full game has 20 levels, with three difficulties: Endurance, Purgatory and Sinner. Each adds a new challenge, described on the in-game difficulty screen, and a separate level difficulty option lets you change how hard a level is. Peaceful mode lets you experience the atmosphere without entities stalking you.

You can find skins and headwear for the shrimp hidden in levels, or buy them in the store with coins you collect. The game also contains secrets and a detailed Index system, an analyzation system and a currency converter for converting between the currencies you find in the game.

Abilities and survival

The stereo helps calm the shrimp and reduce anxiety. Music is optional in some levels but crucial in others, particularly those featuring the Porcelain Ghost and False Car. Playing dead makes the Porcelain Ghost ignore you, but doing so too late has consequences.

As you progress, the shrimp evolves and gains abilities that help you traverse levels more efficiently. A scanner lets you search for cars; you can upgrade it to detect other items or increase its radius.