Crabmeat offers a short and enjoyable fishing experience. Using the boats various cranes, and navigation allows the player to easily become immersed as they play. I loved sorting the crabs out, and seeing them bonk each other as they ragged dolled. The overall atmosphere was nice, with the eeriness of what is going on. However, the story itself, or...
Crabmeat2026
Crabmeat
2026 Searching Interactive75Good
Playtime
ShortIt typically takes about 4 hours to finish the game, but players put about 2.5 hours into it on average.
Playable on
- Steam DeckVerified
- Steam MachineVerified
Available on
- $7.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- March 10, 2026
- Developer
- Nicholas McDonnell
- Publisher
- Searching Interactive
- Themes
- Genres
Overview
A short first-person-point-and-click-survival-horror game set in a future Antarctic fisheries region where you are a prisoner tasked with crabbing for the priceless southern King Crab.
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Reception
Press73
Players88
GoodGreat- Metacritic73from 8 reviews
- OpenCritic73from 4 reviews
Taking major inspiration from other indie games in both gameplay and graphical design, Crabmeat is a fun, decently paced horror fishing game with incredible attention-to-detail and lackluster visuals.
Crabmeat offers a part thriller, part fishing sim experience that explores fishing, or more specifically crabbing in a more in depth way than many games do with the obligatory fishing mini-game. Whether you’d like to find out more about the hostile crabs, the Feudostate, or just want to spend some time crabbing, this game could fulfill any of those...
Crabmeat is a great short-form horror game that delves deep into the existential dread of both being in debt and being stranded in an unforgiving sea. The challenge and threat amps up throughout the 3-hour playtime and everything culminates in a conclusion that works as a suitably fantastic payoff. Similar to a game like Threshold, this is a one-sitting...
Crabmeat is a decent fishing game, but if you go into it expecting to get scared by the horrors of the sea then you'll be sorely disappointed.