Crab Game
Game · 2021 · Notable
Dani's free Steam game Crab Game reached an all-time peak of 283,315 Twitch viewers.
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How it worksNumbers
- All-time peak concurrent Steam players (SteamDB)
- 76K
- As of Jun 30, 2024 · SteamDB
- Peak date
- Week of Nov 2, 2021
- Oct 29 ’21 to Week of Nov 2, 2021
- Platforms
- 5
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
How it spread
Trace the originDani released Crab Game free on Steam on Oct. 29, 2021. Within days Sykkuno, xQc and Sodapoppin streamed it, and in early November it set a Steam peak of 56,106 players and drew 283,315 Twitch viewers. VTubers revived it in 2023.
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October 2021
Dani seed · Oct 29 ’21
Dani released Crab Game on Steam as a free-to-play game.[1]
Dani / @DaniDevYT owner response · Oct 29 ’21
Announced his multiplayer Squid Game parody at 13:00:14 UTC and directed followers to his YouTube video.[13]
GamesRadar+ press · Oct 30 ’21
GamesRadar+ wrote that the Steam game would make a great Netflix series.[3]
Changelogupdated Oct 15 ’26
- Score 48 → 49 · Fact-check passed (24 claims)
- Added: 16 events, 12 sources · Score 48
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