Squid Game gets a free multiplayer video game knockoff: Crab Game

Netflix’s Squid Game has been inescapable since the hit streaming series debuted in September, and while there’s no official video game based on Hwang Dong-hyuk’s action-drama (yet), there’s a pretty solid multiplayer knockoff out there: Crab game

Crab game was released on Steam in late October and has two major selling points: It’s basically a Squid Game multiplayer game, and it’s free. You can jump into the lobbies to play deadly battle royale-inspired games. Squid GameIt’s like red light/green. The show’s terrifying glass bridge is a set of icy stepping stones in Crab gameFor example,

But, since there are some Squid Game fare wouldn’t translate to frenetic multiplayer mayhem (eg., marbles, ppopgi), classic alternatives like tag, the floor is lava, and hide and seek round out the list of playable games in Crab game

Crab gameIt’s already popular on Steam with over 30,000 simultaneous players as of Tuesday. On Twitch, it’s pulling in more than 20,000 viewers, putting it ahead of streaming favorites like Final Fantasy 14 Online PUBG battlegrounds OverwatchPlease see the following: Rocket League

Developer Dani — who also made the popular, free survival game Muck — is pretty frank about Crab game’s inspiration and the game’s slapdash, lo-fi development. Dani tells of his silly 14-minute-long making-of video. SquidCrab Game, “This stupid trend is dying faster than my will to live, so we have to finish this game quickly. So let’s make an entire multiplayer game with proximity chat and nine game modes and 30 maps in two weeks.” Then he proceeds to do it, with the help of game development software Unity, free animations, Steam multiplayer tools, and some talented friends.

You can download Crab gameSteam for Windows PC Mac- and Linux versions Crab gameItch.io has them, however they need Steam running in background. Oh, and, Dani also notes, “I have no idea if this works, haven’t been able to test since I don’t have a mac or linux.”

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