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Everything Is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite: Pressure 15 Stuck (Workarounds)
Short answer
No confirmed fix yet. Players suggest: I've tried going small with dodge chance to be quicker and avoid but if both are rolling, it's game over.
Why it happens
At Pressure 15, the game hits a severe difficulty spike. Enemies move much faster and evolve quicker than before. This leaves you trapped between two bad options: chasing passive animals for barely any reward, or failing to dodge predators like cats and tiny hedgehogs because you lack the necessary upgrades. Boss fights, particularly against Shelly and their spawned child, become nearly impossible to reach or survive. Dual threats—such as one boss rolling while the other circles around trees to push you out—overwhelm your positioning and dodge abilities, ending your run instantly.
How to fix it
- Change your starting strategy. Begin your runs by selecting Spawn of Chaos. This option forces you to adapt to a completely different playstyle and can grant a much easier start with random physical traits, abilities, and stats.
- Try a pacifist playstyle. Use the random start from Spawn of Chaos to attempt a pacifist run. This approach helps you survive the early game when standard builds keep failing against the rapid enemy scaling.
- Focus on small and social builds. Prioritize small builds paired with dodge chance to increase your speed and evasion against predators, while actively collecting social options whenever the random pool permits.
If it still doesn't work
- Understand that dealing with dual-rolling boss mechanics is extremely difficult; if both bosses start rolling at the same time, runs often end regardless of your positioning behind trees or your dodge stats.
- Accept that the game's heavy randomness can stall your progress, especially when you fail to draw the right social traits and upgrades needed to survive predators and reach the mid-game.
What players reported
As the title says, I'm hard stuck on pressure 15. I was doing fine with the game, winning and losing runs as that's how it goes but as soon as I hit 15, it's a stone wall. Enemies are faster and evolving quicker so I'm either chasing the passive ones for little reward or failing to dodge the predators like the cats or tiny hedgehogs because I've not got the upgrades to deal with them. The…
What players suggest
The picking upgrades for the upcoming boss is useful but most runs I cannot even get to picking them because I die first boss. Most instances it's shelly and they spawn their kid, and it's over. Doesn't matter if I position behind a tree, the other one will just go around and push me out or hit me with an attack and if I dodge that one, then the rolling one will just come for me. I've tried…
Most of my successful runs (getting to mid game) have been with small/social builds but even then it all falls apart. I'm trying to pick options to get more social but with the game being random (to an extent) of what it gives me, I'm not having any luck most times. I might get tail early, but then nothing else or opposite choices. It's the nature of the randomness of the game of course but…
For the benefit of anyone else having trouble, I've been having good luck using Spawn of Chaos to start. It can give you an easy start, or force you to do something completely different. One run I had, started with 1 physical, 1 ability and an assortment of random stats. Managed to beat it playing pacifist style which I'd never tried before. Try it!
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Source: original Steam Community discussion. Quotes are shortened; all credit goes to the posters. Tags: multiplayer, quest