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Shrimp.io

Shrimp.io

A Shrimp Based Bullet Heaven. Kill creatures, Level up & pick from 3 upgrades to unalive thousands more.

Released Feb 12, 2024 Developer VuVuu Platforms Windows ActionCasualStrategyAction RoguelikeArcade
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

84.7%positive274 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Shrimp.io Shrimp.io is a very basic bullet-heaven, saved by the fact that it's free. The dev has moved onto other projects, including a better bullet-heaven, so I'd be surprised if this gets any more updates. It's also a very neat idea to have the mobile version run ads that pay…”

— a player, Steam review · 68 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Shrimp.io is a silly little survivor style game that somehow makes playing as a shrimp feel like a perfectly reasonable idea. I control a tiny shrimp underwater while fish and other creatures keep coming after me, and my main job is to survive while automatically firing my…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Shrimp.io is a small-scale survivor-style action game that takes the familiar bullet-heaven concept and gives it an amusing aquatic personality. Developed and published by VuVuu, it places players in control of a shrimp facing relentless waves of fish and other underwater…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

12,440all-time peak
0 250 500 2025 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 250 avg · Jul 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-25.

8achievements
0.4%median completion
0.4%rarest: Sergeant Major Shrimp
7.1% of players 2.9% of players 0.7% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 7.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
7.1%Attack Shrimp — Kill 1k creatures.
2.9%Murder Shrimp — Kill 10k creatures.
0.7%Battle Shrimp — Kill 100k creatures.
Rarest badges of honor
0.4%Sergeant Major Shrimp — Kill 750k creatures.
0.4%Sergeant Shrimp — Kill 500k creatures.
0.4%I AM THE ONE WHO SHRIMPS — Kill 2.5 Million creatures.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 02, 2024
v0.19 Update.

Hello fellas, I fixed some things. 🦐 Changes this patch: - Fixed Endless pretty much only spawning bosses. - Fixed a few errors with Oyster item drops - Fixed error with Anchor Weapon - Fixed possible

Aug 30, 2024
v0.18 Update.

Hello fellas, I Added a new weapon, an Endless mode checkbox, adjusted the Eel weapon, and optimized some stuff. 🦐 Changes this patch: - Added Endless mode, it is just a checkbox in the main menu - Ad

Aug 05, 2024
v0.17 Update.

Hello fellas, I fixed a couple of very frequent errors and did some code optimizations. 🦐 Changes this patch: - Fixed error with homing squids weapon - Optimized the Oyster chests - Optimized some mat

Jun 29, 2024
v0.16 Update.

Hello fellas, I added a couple of new weapons and fixed the texture items visually flipping all over while the shrimp is moving. Eel Pet Weapon Homing Squid Weapon 🦐 Changes this patch: - Added a coup

Jun 18, 2024
v0.15 Update.

Hello fellas, I changed the playing drops to each 90 minutes from the original 60 minutes(still capped at 2 a day). I also did some weapon damage balancing changes. The next update should be an actual

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsAction · Casual · Strategy · Action Roguelike · Arcade · Bullet Hell · Roguelite · Pixel Graphics · 2D · Top-Down · Free to Play · Indie (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Achievements8
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows Xp, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10 Processor: 2.0 Ghz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 1GB Video Memory Storage: 100 MB available space