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Crab Champions

Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.

2023 Action Adventure Casual Indie ★ Overwhelmingly Positive
Crab Champions

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Guides

Guides

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Crab Champions Weapons Guide & Tier Overview — Best Picks

In Crab Champions you choose one weapon before each run and you cannot swap it mid-run, so the pick shapes your whole game. With 19 weapons spread across automatics, launchers, precision guns, pistols and shotguns, knowing each role saves you from a rough run. This guide covers how the pick works, a community-informed tier overview, the dual-wield trade-off, and easy beginner choices.

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Crab Champions Beginner Guide — Movement, Loadouts, and First Runs

Crab Champions is a fast third-person roguelite shooter where a crab clears enemy waves across floating islands. This guide focuses on what actually decides early runs — constant jumping and dashing, spinning on spawn, picking a loadout you cannot swap mid-run, stacking synergistic perks, leaning on auras, looting crystals before you leave, and killing exploding enemies first.

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Crab Champions Builds Guide — Perks, Upgrades and Synergies

Builds in Crab Champions are assembled live during a run by collecting and stacking upgrades. This guide explains the five upgrade types, the perk rarities (including the high-risk Greed tier), the nine perk categories, and the four broad build archetypes. It also covers where to find upgrades and how stacking duplicate perks drives the runaway damage the game is known for.

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Crab Champions Difficulty and Progression — Run Structure to Diamond

A practical, honest breakdown of how Crab Champions runs are built and how difficulty scales. Covers the island-by-island biome structure, choosing your next biome after a boss, crystals and the shop, the four difficulty tiers, optional difficulty modifiers and Challenge Level, looping for infinite scaling, and how per-weapon medals lead up to Diamond. Built for players ready to push past Normal without flaming out.

Overview

What's the Game?

Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.

Movement is the core skill

Jump, double-jump air dashes, and flips keep you alive; standing still gets you swarmed.

Pick your loadout, then commit

Choose your weapon, ability and melee before a run; you build around them as the run escalates.

Stack perks into synergies

Perks, weapon mods, melee mods, ability mods and relics stack, and picking duplicates upgrades them — that is how builds explode.

Island-by-island runs

Clear waves across themed biomes, loot crystals, shop for upgrades, and push as far and as high in difficulty as you can.

Difficulty modifiers and Diamond rank

Stack optional modifiers to raise the Challenge Level, chasing per-weapon medals up to the coveted Diamond.

Modes and value

Survival, a Racing speedrun mode with daily seeds, and online Duels PvP, with no microtransactions or lootboxes.

Trailer

Trailer

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Screenshots

Screenshots

Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
English

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Processor: Core i3 3.3 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4000 Storage: 6 GB available space Sound Card: Any

Achievements

Achievement Highlights

Crab Champion I Crab Champion I
Crab Champion II Crab Champion II
Crab Champion III Crab Champion III
Flawless Flawless
Frugal Frugal
Looper Looper
Master Master
Millionaire Millionaire
Pro Pro
Skilled Skilled

FAQ

FAQ

A fast-paced third-person roguelite shooter where you play a crab, travel across floating islands clearing waves of enemies, collect weapons, perks and upgrades, and stack synergies into game-breaking builds. Movement — jumping, dashing and flipping — is as central as shooting. Play solo or in online co-op.
It is developed by Noisestorm (Eoin O Broin), the Irish music producer behind the viral track Crab Rave, who paused his music career to build the game. It is widely reported as a solo project, and it launched into Early Access on the anniversary of Crab Rave.
Yes, it is approachable but has a high skill ceiling rooted in movement. Keep jumping to dodge, spin around on spawn to face enemies behind you, grab aura upgrades, and commit to one build early. Easy and Normal difficulties are a comfortable place to learn.
It is still in Early Access, so content is incomplete and balance shifts between updates. It is a one-time purchase of roughly 17 USD with no microtransactions or lootboxes.
No. The Steam store lists English only for interface, audio and subtitles. There is no official Japanese, Chinese or Korean localization.

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