24 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.5 hrs on record (2.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jun 29, 2022 @ 12:38pm
Updated: Jul 31, 2022 @ 10:49pm

I love this game and the devs for making it. To top things off, the soundtrack goes way too hard for a game like this, and I appreciate the devs for doing it anyways, and of course I bought the soundtrack. Great game. Will crab again and force all of my friends to try it out (I already managed to get one to buy it).

Just one warning for those interested in the game, the controls are weird and are NOT meant for keyboard and mouse. If you want to know exactly what I mean, all I'll tell you is that you control the movement of your claws with both of your joysticks. But how do you move? Simply press the corresponding direction on your D-Pad once and you'll go in that direction continuously until you either press the same direction again to cancel it out or press a different direction. These controls aren't as bad as they seem, but they feel a lot more coherent to be because I played with an 8BitDo SN30pro+ controller, aka a playstation 4 like controller. So I recommend using one of those when playing the game, but if you can't or just don't want to, I won't blame you.

I just wish I could play this on my Steam Deck. That would just make me the happiest ever.

Edit: I finally figured out how to play not only Fight Crab, but other Unsupported games on the Steam Deck. To get Fight Crab (or any other unsupported tagged game to work), simply go onto Desktop Mode, install "ProtonUp-Qt" from the discover store, launch ProtonUp-Qt, simply select which version you'd like to add (I'd recommend simply the latest version). Once you got all the different Proton versions you want, you can switch back to Gaming mode, make sure to download said unsupported game you wish to play, go to the game's properties, and then go to "compatibility". Once there, select "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and select the latest version of GE-Proton7. Please note that not ALL unsupported games will work with this method. I have no idea myself, but from what I heard rumored, anything with Easy Anti-Cheat doesn't work. I recommend looking up the game you wish to know about (in terms of working on the Steam Deck) by looking at the website protondb. It should give you a general idea if they work with these other versions of Proton.

From my testing on the latest version of Proton (at the time, it was GE-Proton7-27) and the main menu will have music playing, but the usual in-game footage showing gameplay is missing. All you'll see is the menu text and nothing but a black void in the background. I haven't tested online matches on the Steam Deck (nor have I even tried them on PC), but some reports say that muliplayer works while more dated reports say otherwise. Take that as you will.
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