Crabs
Breaker Game Studios · 2025 · Casual, Simulation, Life Sim, Walking Simulator, Incremental
PC
Positive100% · 16
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About Crabs
Some features may be missing or incomplete. To keep up with progress join the discord. The gameplay is also designed for short bursts over a long period. Crab care takes place over real world days. Simulating the routine needed for real life pet care. The game currently lacks tutorials due to features being constantly changed, improved and added.Welcome to the tranquil world of Crabs, a relaxing way to experience the joys and quirks of owning a hermit crab without the mess of a real-life tank.This simulator and idle game puts you in the role of a dedicated hermit crab caretaker. Your mission is to keep your little crustacean friend happy, healthy, and thriving in its cozy habitat.
Key Features
Care for Your Crab – It’s simple. Get a crab, bring it home, and keep its food and water topped up for a few days. Take it out for a backyard adventure. When you are done spending time with your crab you can ALT-F4. The Crab will survive in real time as long it has food and water. Make sure to check in before it runs out and refill as needed. Keep your crab alive as long as possible. Train it to improve its skills and discover new abilities along the way.Real-Time Gameplay – The game continues even when you are not playing, so there is no need to keep it open to progress.Backyard Adventure – Take control of your crab and explore the backyard. Discover secrets, face threats, and solve puzzles to discover new traits and abilities for your crabs! (WIP)Tank Variety and Customization – Unlock larger tank designs and customize them with decorations to create the perfect environment for your crab. (WIP)Perfect for anyone looking for a low-pressure gameplay experience, Crabs captures the simple joy of caring for a hermit crab. Crabs is in early access and does not represent the final product. Some content is still a work in progress. Please visit the Discord to report any bugs and share your feedback and keep up with progress.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's adorable crab designs, charming mechanics, and relaxing Tamagotchi-like gameplay loop, with strong enthusiasm for its potential in early access. Common complaints include limited content and unclear mechanics, with some players wanting more interactive features like water mechanics, shell-hiding, and actual goals beyond basic pet care, plus occasional bugs like crabs getting stuck in loops.
I love having crabs. I have recommended my friends get crabs. I have even offered to give my friends crabs. I can say with certainty that you will not regret getting crabs.3 found this helpful
Game is in early access however being a part of the community and playing the game I can see it has a lot of potential. I would recommend playing the game.2 found this helpful
I built Pizza Crust a house :]1 found this helpful
So. Much. Potential!!!! Please don't give up on the development of this game, it already has so many good parts and I'd be overjoyed to see where it can go!! First, it's very cute (even just the strolling and jumping are top tier) and easy to play, the crabs look amazing and so does the general environement. Loving the "build and decorate tank" options even if limited fr now (loving it even more now that I've understood how the scale works lol, poor first bro got a lot of miniatures stuff). On one hand it's not that easy to figure out at times and the general mechanics are a bit blurry (no real discernible goal aside from keeping the Pinchy Friend alive - which is a cool goal but a couple of extra info boxes could work in favor of impatient players) but discovering how everything fits together slowly and getting excited for updates and unexplained sightings is a real joy. The Backyard Adventures are obviously in early stage but the squirrel aready gave me a couple of jumpscares and the fact that we're not immediately grabbed and banged on a rock or something (we do be looking like nuts in fairness) is excellent. (old man shakes fist at sky moment: so tired of the constant zombiei…1 found this helpful
Awesome little game, not much too do yet except watch and clean. I leave the game on to get exp and collect poop for pearls, I love hermit crabs and this is the second best thing. Can't wait to see what they add! would love to see water features, hiding in shells and them digging. crabs often get stuck circling eachother creating a poop circle.
Since it's an early access game, there isn't much for now. As of now, it's pretty much a Tamagotchi :) Feed it on a daily basis and don't let it die. If you are NOT into such a game, then Crabs is NOT for you. Your crab finds pearls (around 1 100 a day) everyday (as the game keeps going while you are absent) which is the money of the game - so you can purchase food and water for it and eventually, a better spot to live, but that's it (for now?). I don't understand "yet" the reviews saying that players learnt a lot about hermit crabs... Even in the backyard adventure, I thought that I had to avoid the squirrel, thinking it would eat my crab, but no. Plenty of potential places to visit in the yard, but nothing to do with them yet.
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