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Crab Game

Dani · 2021-10-29

Steam

ActionCasualFree To PlayIndieRacing

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Battle Royale

Releases: Oct 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 29, 2021 (Linux), Oct 29, 2021 (Mac)

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.

1,050
playing now
91%
positive of 151k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
19
twitch viewers (latest)
52/100
IGDB user rating (59 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

1,050 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Crab Game is a free-to-play video game developed and published by Norwegian indie developer Daniel Sooman, also known as Dani. The game was initially released for Linux and macOS on Itch.io and for Windows on Steam on 29 October 2021; the Linux and macOS editions were later released on Steam on 16 November. Based on the Netflix series Squid Game, players compete with each other in minigames in order to be the last one alive.

Trailer

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≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,050 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,071 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~259/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (97,386 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
92k92k20212026Week of 2021-10-01: 7,811 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 622 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 91,771 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5,615 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 15,534 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,717 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7,362 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 972 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3,381 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 485 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2,101 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 372 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,768 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 291 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,503 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 230 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1,572 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 257 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,467 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,294 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 279 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 977 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 148 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 911 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,664 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 209 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,036 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 183 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,049 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 190 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 887 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 910 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 850 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 766 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 841 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 144 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 945 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 807 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 707 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 118 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 692 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 141 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 734 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 620 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 634 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 118 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 583 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 524 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 572 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 123 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 488 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 380 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 474 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,034 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 243 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 480 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 374 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 301 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 43 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.2k4992026-08-06 21:00 — 758 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 804 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 945 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 897 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 890 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 937 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 901 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 783 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 914 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 845 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 696 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 950 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 811 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 709 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 1,054 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 763 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 654 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 870 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 753 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 669 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 724 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 765 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 552 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 626 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 740 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 868 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 698 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 1,047 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 1,050 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Twitch viewers

10002026-08-29 22:34 — 42 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 100 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 41 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 59 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 17 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 21 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 19 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFPSPvPActionArcadeCasualCombatParkourPhysicsPlatformer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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