Crab Game
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 520, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Battle Teams 2 (free, scores 1) and Gorilla Tag ($19.99, scores 73).
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 22, 10 times as much.
Still 2.9K concurrent players, 5 years in.
It is still busy. 2.9K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
Players
2,921 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Crab Game scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1782210/crab-gameThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1.
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