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Dear Players!
The first reveal trailer for Crab Rhapsody is finally here, and our first public playtest is now live! 🦀
About Game
Crabby Never Cry, Rock and Roll Never Die! Crab Rhapsody is a unique crab roguelite shooter where you can build upgrades and band in real-time to fight against CrabGPT — an AI trying to monopolize the Abysea’s music.
Earn Claw Coins and become unstoppable! Help Mr. Claw stop Crab-GPT and its agents from monopolizing music copyrights. Build your band, unlock ability dressup, and buy Claw Chips anytime, anywhere to upgrade weapons, trigger wild combos, and craft insane builds.🤘🦀🎸
Public Playtest
The Steam Playtest is officially open!
Head over to the Steam store page to request access, become a crab, add the game to your Wishlist, and get ready to fight crabs, build your band, and save the power of music!
📅 Playtest Period: July 2, 2026 – July 31, 2026
Features
Upgrade Anywhere and Anytime!💪
Through the Claw Watch, players can access the Claw Chip Store anytime to purchase unique chips and gain new abilities. With versatile Claw Chips, every run can adapt to your preferred playstyle — whether strategic or action-packed.
Build Your Superpower Crab Live Band🎵
Assemble your crab musicians from Rock, Jazz, Funk, Traditional Chinese, Orchestral, and Electronic Synth — Whether it’s Erhu with a DJ or Drums with a Saxophone — it’s all up to you! Every mix creates a one-of-a-kind real-time soundtrack. From Martial Arts Bands to High-Tech Hackers to Adorable Idol Crabs, discover countless unique bands, each with their own abilities and styles. Build your band and your playstyle — all at once!
Upgradable Musical Weapons🎸
From the Chinese Flute Spear to the Trumpet Shotgun, the Guitar Chainsaw to the Bass Machine Gun, the Pellet Drum Taiji to the Guzheng Wind Blade, and beyond — the tech giant Claw House arms players with a vast arsenal of powerful, one-of-a-kind music weapons, all delivered straight to you through the Delivery Drop service.
Ability OOTD, Be a Cool And Powerful Crab!🧢
Unlock the meta-progression dress-ups to customize Crabby, change the cute, silly look, and get special abilities for your next run.
Join Our Community
Join our Discord community to chat with fellow crab enthusiasts, share your experiences, and blow some bubbles together!
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We'll be hanging around the community, sharing development updates and chatting with players throughout development.
Stay Updated
Be sure to follow our Steam page, wishlist the game and social channels to stay up to date with the latest news about Crab Rhapsody. We'll continue sharing development progress, future content, and plenty of crabby updates along the way.
Looking Ahead
This playtest represents an early development build, so you'll encounter placeholder assets, unfinished features, and work-in-progress content.
Our goal is simple: we hope Crab Rhapsody brings you plenty of fun while helping us gather honest feedback to make the game even better.
If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions, we'd love to hear from you! You can reach us through the in-game feedback tool, our community channels, or our official social media.
Our shy little crab developers will carefully read every report and every suggestion as we work toward building the best crab game we possibly can.
Let's be crab bandmates!
— The Shy Crab Developers at RIFF DEV 🦀
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