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King of Crabs cover art

King of Crabs

Robot Squid · 2023-09-25

Steam

ActionCasualMassively MultiplayerFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Battle Royale

Releases: Jul 03, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 07, 2019 (Android), TBD (iOS)

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

21
playing now
79%
positive of 9.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

King of Crabs is a 2020 battle royale video game from Robot Squid and Spilt Milk Studios for Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS. The game has been praised as "Fortnite with crabs."

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 21 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 178 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,442 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.3k1.3k20202026Week of 2020-07-01: 845 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 420 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 441 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 146 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,317 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 330 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3662026-08-07 00:00 — 22 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 18 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 24 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 23 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 24 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 18 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 20 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 21 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 21 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 22 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 21 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 16 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 22 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 18 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 22 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 36 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 24 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 36 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
51.7%
earned "Brown Crab!"
1.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller support

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,2200%74

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

Player tags

3DPvEPvPFunnyArcadeCasualShooterRealisticControllerDark Humor

Census log

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

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