Shrimp

Play as a Shrimp and complete a ritual that had been abandoned in a world of abstract darkness. Shrimp is a third person platformer based in a terrifying world with entities delivering a thrill you'll never…

16 November 2020

Indie Platform

Shrimp is an indie, released 16 November 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 23 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Shrimp is

Shrimp was released in 2020. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Play as a Shrimp and complete a ritual that had been abandoned in a world of abstract darkness. Shrimp is a third person platformer based in a terrifying world with entities delivering a thrill you'll never forget.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Shrimp launched on 16 November 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.