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Crab God

Chaos Theory Games · Firesquid · 2024-06-20

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 20, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!

Crab God is an Adventure, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 326 reviews).

82%
positive of 330 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Make waves, praise the claw! Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 45 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.6k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 330 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at IndieGala Store (2026-07-09) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 62 of 87 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
626220242026Week of 2024-06-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$3.992024-06-122026-08-182024-06-12 — best price $19.992024-07-31 — best price $19.992024-08-29 — best price $19.992024-10-22 — best price $19.992024-12-05 — best price $15.082025-01-15 — best price $11.992025-01-27 — best price $9.852025-02-03 — best price $15.082025-02-27 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-02 — best price $11.992025-04-15 — best price $19.992025-05-05 — best price $9.852025-05-16 — best price $11.992025-05-30 — best price $11.992025-06-27 — best price $11.992025-07-25 — best price $8.482025-08-01 — best price $15.082025-09-08 — best price $8.492025-09-26 — best price $19.992025-10-07 — best price $19.992025-11-14 — best price $10.002025-11-29 — best price $15.742025-12-17 — best price $5.992026-01-06 — best price $15.082026-02-01 — best price $5.662026-02-12 — best price $19.992026-03-09 — best price $5.662026-03-23 — best price $15.082026-04-07 — best price $8.002026-04-16 — best price $19.992026-04-27 — best price $15.892026-05-18 — best price $6.792026-05-28 — best price $19.992026-06-15 — best price $15.082026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-07-24 — best price $15.082026-08-10 — best price $6.002026-08-18 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
89.6%
earned "FirstNightOfMany"
7.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-06-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2661%47

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RTSCozyIndieNatureStrategySurvivalWholesomeColony SimManagementRogue-like

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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