King of Crabs

King of Crabs

Skip · Multiplayer · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Length
5h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
79% positive
Length
5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
Free
Reviews
79%
9,112 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, GeForce 8800 or equivalent, 123 MB of storage. Windows only.

Battle Royale with crabs! Intense multiplayer action, with up to 100 players! Scrap, scavenge and slaughter your way to becoming the King of Crabs!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
For context
Length5 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, GoreBox ($8.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Inferna (free, scores 8).

12 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 29, 22:46 UTC.

The drop-off

52% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 22:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
King of Crabs scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1273710/king-of-crabs
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRobot Squid
PublisherRobot Squid
GenreMultiplayer
Released2023
Achievements74