I've tried this on three occasions now. The first time I struggled with the controls because the 360 controller only worked partially. Developer responded to use Alt-K to switch to controller. That's nowhere in the menus, but it does work. That said, the game is still pretty hard to love.

Creeps always run directly to you, no matter if you're in the line of sight or not. This is supposed to be by design, but it leaves out a lot of opportunity for player stealth. There is, as far as I've seen, only one kind of creep; which is pretty boring. There are different weapon types laying around, but there is no audible feedback that you've picked one up. I have not found a way to switch between weapons. There doesn't seem to be any AOE weapons like grenades. The controller is usable for moving and shooting, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to navigate menus with it. And when the player dies, the creeps do not stop pursuing. They just run in place and the player is supposed to know to hit Escape at that point, and click restart with the mouse.

In short, this is a twitch shooter that will take most gamers about 5 minutes to get discouraged with it.

The game was updated 5 days ago, so I'm hopeful that this will get better, though that update did not address any of the issues I noted above.

Still in dev but I really like it, it's engaging and I think the crab hands are hilarious. Can't wait for the finished product.

I find this game very fun even in its early access state, it is still worked on so it has a few minor bugs but it's nothing game breaking and it's still very enjoyable. you can see that this game has a lot of potential and it's very promising, all you need is to give it a chance to grow.

As of now, Rise of Crustaceans is nothing more than a weekend or a game jam project. There simply isn't enough in the game to be worth the purchase.

As far as I could tell, there are 4-5 weapons, that barely feel different. Enemies all look the same and act the same, the areas are uninteresting and there is zero incentive to even explore them, since weapons, health and ammo only spawn in predetermined places. The gameplay is really tedious, and there is nothing unique or interesting in it.

More gripes for the devs:
You die instantly if you walk into a green slime. Since controls aren't the best, this is really punishing. You should get a health reduction, but not insta death.
The machine guns feel the same, the pistols feel the same.
Just constantly backing and shooting and reloading basically wins the game. Enemies just attack you in a straight line, so no tactics are required.
No story or lore of any kind, why am I here, why am I shooting these guys?
Some spawn points don't spawn anything.
Timer keeps going after death.
There is no achievement or leaderboard system making the whole survive as long as you can pointless.
No character upgrades or any kind of progression.
Cheap sfx
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All in all, this game needs a lot more work.

A really fun game to kill time

Big Nice reminds me of Dead Ops Arcade

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On map 1 Wave 2 enemies mostly spawned outside the game map so there`s no way to progress. After you die the game doesn`t end you have to manually restart or quit. It`s barely a start to a game let alone what you could reasonably call early access. Just another in the endless landslide of broken bare-bones games that is still available for purchase on Steam.
Donate you`re potential purchase to a deserving charity instead.

This could be a nice game if they worked on it a little more. They say its not the final game though right in the intro so maybe it will become a better game with time...
Check out my video on it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flbea_3cqeY

A really fun game to kill time