Crab Champions
BANGER · Roguelike · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in March 2025. 23 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Risk of Rain 2 ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Vellum ($19.99, scores 68).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 25 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 588 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 2,349 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
A typical playtime on HowLongToBeat is 3.4 hours. The players who chase everything log 70, 20 times that.
The drop-off
81% start to 5% rarestNo 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
397 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I got my moneys worth and had a great time playing this game with my friends. Totally worth it.
This game is probably one of the greatest games I've ever played. One run I did I got max level Bonus Chests, and ~215-216 levels of each of the 3 Greed perks that increase enemy spawns. I had probably around ~+12,000% enemy spawns. And then I got an island with 3 XL totem activations. That SINGLE island took probably around 10 minutes of straight SPAWN CAMPING all the enemies that spawned in. I gave a sigh of...
This is just doom ethernal, but instead of a nall mighty force of demon killing power, you play whatever escaped from the asian restaurante last week and it became quite violent. There are more weapons in this game than playtime in the newest call of durty campagne. Did I mention the multiplayer?
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Crab Champions scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/774801/crab-championsReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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