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Games like CRABS MUST DIE!

If CRABS MUST DIE! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Humanity Lost, Fallout 4 and The Outer Worlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its brutal, challenging and comedic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About CRABS MUST DIE!: You've crash-landed on a forgotten planet and must survive in a hostile open world filled with mutated crabs and other enemies. Armed with weapons, a beat-up bike, and a few skills, you'll explore, fight, scavenge, and level up. A compact open-world shooter with light RPG and survival elements.

2025ActionIndieAdventureRPG11.99 USDWindowsby Roman Kharlamov
CRABS MUST DIE! — Steam game cover
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Crab killing premise is absurdly funDeep perk and ability system with active skillsFallout parody humor and meme referencesBrutalChallengingComedic

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Steam players who put hours into CRABS MUST DIE! also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Humanity Lost

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.

    2021ActionAdventureRPG3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Fallout 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Second-strongest match for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

    2015RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Outer Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

    2020RPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business

    WHY THIS

    Shares weapon customization, boss fights, action and a nostalgic mood with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Ranked #5 for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Unfinished Business is a new standalone adventure of RoboCop: Rogue City. OmniTower is their fortress, violence their language. Face elite mercenaries all the way to the top of the tower and enforce the law amidst the chaos!

    2025ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Borderlands 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Ranked #6 for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG69.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

    2016ActionRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for CRABS MUST DIE! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – standalone prequel for the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which tells you story about the Clear Sky group, that want to research the Zone and understand it better.

    2008ActionRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CRABS MUST DIE! at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Action with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Action with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~59% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under CRABS MUST DIE! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CRABS MUST DIE!.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about CRABS MUST DIE!

Does CRABS MUST DIE! work on Steam Deck?
CRABS MUST DIE! is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does CRABS MUST DIE! cost?
CRABS MUST DIE! is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to CRABS MUST DIE!?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRABS MUST DIE! are Humanity Lost, Fallout 4, The Outer Worlds.
Who developed CRABS MUST DIE!?
CRABS MUST DIE! was developed by Roman Kharlamov.

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