Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that

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Marathon Arc Raiders Best PC gear Quizzes Games Horror Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that News By Jody Macgregor published 11 March 2026 No thank you, the ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer Get the PC Gamer Newsletter Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? 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Crabmeat puts the unsettling nature of the crab to good use, crafting a short point-and-click horror experience out of being stuck on a boat in an ocean full of crabs.You’re working off your debt to society as a Penal Colony Worker in the Antarctic, navigating ice floes and hauling up nets of delicious Southern King Crabs for the hungry folks back home. Hard labor used to mean breaking rocks with a pickaxe, now it’s a fishing minigame. If you don’t fulfil the quota, the toxin capsule in your neck will carry out a fatal sentencing. Bleak.Which explains why you’re hanging out in an ocean full of edible spiders rather than getting the hell out of there. You operate the crab traps, sail to the next spot, and hope your boat doesn’t come under threat from leviathan beasts out of the deeps. That would be a real downer, hey?Article continues below You may like This horror sim is like running a food truck in Fallout: cook questionable meals for mutants, monsters, and the occasional alien Reanimal review: Astonishingly bleak and oblique survival horror One of the best-reviewed new games on Steam right now is about feeding raccoons and cryptids with the cosmic, Lynchian oven of your eerie woodland house Crabmeat makes inventive use of mouse controls for its blend of point-and-click and survival horror, and if playing Subnautica gave you a case of the deep-sea willies then I suspect Crabmeat will do the same. If that’s your idea of a good time it’s out now on Steam with a 10% launch discount, and a demo you can try.Best MMOs: Most massiveBest strategy games: Number crunchingBest open world games: Unlimited explorationBest survi