Maneater Levels Guide | Level Requirements for Evolution

Maneater is a progressive game that allows you to experience real-time growth based on your levels and accrued experience. While most of the game is rather seamless, leveling yourself can be a major pain.

Luckily, the entire concept of Maneater revolves around leveling up in order to evolve and become stronger. Whether you’re a Pup, Teen, or Elder, you always need to strive hard to reach the next stage in your evolution.

In this guide, we will be showcasing how leveling works in Maneater. This includes numerous activities that can significantly boost your experience bar. With that said, let’s jump in and get started!

How Does Evolution Work In Maneater?

At first glance, leveling up in a progressive manner might seem logical, but it isn’t something that should be your main focus.

For this very reason, Maneater has introduced an evolution system that acts as an incentive for you to keep leveling up in order to achieve greatness.

With that said, here’s how it works:

Your endgame starts once you’ve reached the Mega transformation. However, achieving that is not easy by any means.

Besides, there will be times when you’ve reached the correct level, but are still unable to go any further with your evolution if you specifically focus on leveling.

How To Level Up Faster In Maneater?

Once you’ve understood the basic incentive of the game, it’s time to get down to work. For starters, you’d need to stuff yourself with as much food as possible.

However, you’re not the only one with levels here. Each creature has its own level, and the higher the level of the creature you defeat, the more experience points you will gain.

Theoretically, you could choose to battle a creature 10 levels above you to gain a significant surplus of experience points. However, such a fight would also be considerably dangerous.

Besides, there’s no telling whether you’d be the hunter or the hunted in the first place. So once, you’re done prepping yourself, it’s time to take a look at the activities that can dish out the most bang for your time:

Step #1: Perform Hunts

It goes without saying, but hunts are your major source of experience. By the time of writing, Maneater offers four major hunts that can be performed at their specific times.

While the battles are anything but easy, they’re more than worth the risk. Besides, the progression path of Maneater features plenty of hunt quests right after story ones.

Step #2: Eat, Eat, and Eat

As mentioned previously, you need to consume everything in your path. Certain fish are part of the missions, but there are also ones that you encounter randomly in the vast seas.

Don’t discriminate, and show them why you’re the apex predator. However, this can go both ways since discerning the enemy level can be difficult.

Step #3: Evolve Your Body

This goes without saying, but in order to consume more, you need to have a body that can take in more.

Although there’s no theoretical limit to how much you can consume in Maneater, it’s crucial to remain prepared for battle at all times.

Currently, the Tiger Body is the way to go for faster leveling. However, you’d have to go through the stages of body evolution first to reach it.

How To Upgrade Your Body In Maneater?

Body evolutions can be done from a Grotto as long as you fulfill the necessary requirements of evolution. This Grotto is usually indicated on the map, so just follow the directions until you reach it.

It’s generally denoted by a small cave icon, and is pretty easy to discern. But if that doesn’t work, consider killing yourself to respawn at the nearest Grotto.

Once you’re there, just open the Evolutions screen, and head to the Evolutions section in order to select your preferred body type.

Evolving to the tiger body can be time-consuming as it’s a high-tier transformation that requires a significant amount of nutrients. Just keep going this natural path until you reach the desired body type.

With that said, here are all the body types available in Maneater by the time of writing:

Icon	Body Evolution	How to Unlock	Tier 5 Upgrade Cost
	Bone Body	Defeat the Apex Hammerhead Shark (Sapphire Bay)	44,000 Mineral, 525 Mutagen
	Bio-Electric Body	Defeat Butcher Boy Brady (Infamy Rank 6)	44,000 Fat, 525 Mutagen
	Shadow Body	Find all Sapphire Bay Landmarks	44,000 Protein, 525 Mutagen
	Tiger Body	Day One Maneater Bonus	22,000 Mineral, 22,000 Fat, 525 Mutagen

Maneater: Quest Rundown

Quests are the best way to progress through the game. Plus, most of the evolutions are story level restricted. In other words, you need to reach a specific point in the game in order to unlock a certain evolution and vice versa.

There is a plethora of quests in Maneater, and while they vary in type, the experience you’ll gain from them is substantial.

With that said, here’s the entire story rundown of Maneater:

Prologue Quests: Surf and Turf

This section will act as your tutorial, and will make you complete the following mini quests before allowing you to leave:

Chapter 1 – Jambalaya

Here are all the quests available in the chapter 1 of Maneater:

Chapter 2 – Making a Splash

Here are all the quests available in the chapter 2 of Maneater:

Chapter 3 – Sea Change

Here are all the quests available in the chapter 3 of Maneater:

Fawtick Bayou Part II

Here are all the quests present in Fawtick Bayou Part II:

Chapter 4 – Blood is Thicker than Water

Here are all the quests available in the chapter 4 of Maneater:

Interlude Quests: Cleanup II

Here are the main quests present in the ?Interlude portion of Maneater:

Chapter 5 – The Great White Way

Here are all the quests available in the chapter 5 of Maneater:

Chapter 6 – Whale Hello There

Here are all the quests available in the chapter 6 of Maneater:

Interlude Cleanup III – Dead Horse Lake III

This is a standalone mission that serves as an interlude to the series. Completing it will unlock chapter 7 of Maneater.

Chapter 7 – The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Here are all the quests present in the (by the time of writing) final chapter of Maneater:

Maneater: Evolution Breakdown

As mentioned previously, there are a total of five shark forms that are gained through evolution.

• Pup: Initially, you start as a Pup, unknown about the ways and dangers lurking in the ocean.Your main goal here is to attain a few levels from the introductory missions to reach your initial evolution a.k.a the Teen Shark Form.
• Teen Shark: Here, you’re going to learn a double jump ability along with a greater lung capacity.
• Adult Shark: Upon reaching level 10, you’d become an Adult Shark that promises an overall boost to your stats and vice versa. This evolution opens up a lot of gates for your minor evolutions and serves as a gateway to the midgame.
• Elder Shark: Once you gain another 10 levels, it’s time to reach the Elder Shark stage, and gain a bunch of buffs to your overall body. There’s a lot to do in your Grotto, so you should ready up well in advance.
• Mega Shark: This is the final stage in the evolution process that promises the rank of Maneater. This stage is the current level cap of the game and signifies you as an apex predator. Customize yourself to become the best!

Takeaway

In essence, you will need to mainly focus on the story in order to level yourself up. While doing so, be sure to gobble up anything and everything in your path. However, there’s no need to overestimate your capabilities, and challenge animals stronger than you.

Despite them giving an awful lot of experience points, the danger is simply not worth it in most cases. Once you unlock the advanced Grotto, be sure to upgrade to the tiger body type to optimize your experience gain in the shortest possible time.