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CRABITRON – Action Game Review
CRABITRON is a Action/Adventure/Entertainment game from Two Lives Left, first launched in 30th December 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 68+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes CRABITRON Stand Out
AWARD WINNING GIANT SPACE CRAB SIMULATION
WINNER of Australian Game Developer Awards 2013
“I’ve always wanted to be a giant space crab.” – Gabe Newell
“The controls are perfect.” – Touch Arcade
"It’s immediately obvious, and incredibly hilarious." — WIRED
"The crab smiled, the music and action picked right back up again, and I was hooked." — Pocket Gamer, 9/10
"Man, this game is good." — Touch Arcade, 4.5 STARS
"It’s a wonderful dose of originality." — 148Apps, 4.5 STARS
"It may be the most innovative game in the App Store." — Apple'N'Apps, 4/5
Australian Game Developer Awards 2013 – Innovation Award
Australian Game Developer Awards 2013 – Excellence in Design Award
Once, every hundred years, Crabitron descends upon the civilized galaxy to teach humanity a brutal lesson — to stop eating his delicious crustacean brothers.
Humanity never learns. It's time for their lesson.
A lovingly crafted game about destroying the universe as a Giant Space Crab.
• Touch, pinch, and fling your claws to cause destruction
• Battle against waves of enemies, including sharks with frickin’ lasers
• Gobble Burgers of Power, burp fireballs and suck in everything
• Snap, crush and ruin everyone’s day… or life
• The world's most realistic Giant Space Crab simulation
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, CRABITRON is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd March 2019
Recent improvements include:
Crabitron is back with an additional 32 bits!
- Removed space barnacles
- Updated to support 64 bit devices.
- Removed Facebook integration
Download & Availability
CRABITRON is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Awesome fun, very creative and innovative!! Fantastic gameplay and addicting!! Let's add some more content please.
We can't get enough of this game.
The replays watch thing is gliched we can't get back to the game at all we see is some like blue thing and in the top left corner we think it says either Some Missing Text or Some Misson text please fix this bug it would make us so happy! Thx Two lives! Good luck and please fix this glich and the other 1 or 2 we reported also.
Help stuck on mission screen and will not remove . We tried to send email to developer but found no means to do so on site. Deleting and reloading a app…very annoying, spoiled the fun.
This game is amazing. Just wondering if it was made on codea.
This is an awesome game, we can't believe we're the first person who bought it so we're the highest in the leaderboards but still awesome game.
You had us at "the worlds most realistic space crab simulation.".
This is one of the best games we've played on our iPad since we first bought it. It runs great on an iPad 1 and it's an absolute blast. It was well worth the $5 we paid for it. It's a steal at any price.
Super innovative concept, can't get enough of it.
Bought the wormhole "upgrade" thinking it would be optional to use in-game, and our scores have taken a dramatic hit. Please give an option to turn this off! Thanks.
This is a very fresh game on our ipad, our nephew totally love it, Couldnt wait for the future update :D Other developers should make a game like this with a fresh approach Crabitron and ridiculous fishing made our week Thanks two lives left 3$ well spent Great support from the dev This game run perfectly well on our ipad 1 ios 5 But it keep crashing in mynipad mini ios 6.1.3 Already sent the crash log to dev Very great support :).
When we're playing our arm goes up and gets stuck please fix it.
Might be the first time since the App Store launched that we've given an iOS game a perfect review. This is a rare breed. Brilliant mix of sounds, music and graphics with a delicious premise and unique controls. We AM THE CRABITRON.
This is one of those games that we wasn't sure that we would like but bought it on a whim after reading other reviews. It is so fun and such a great game. We love that we can play it will our friends, even our little brother. It is so creative and we love the graphics too.
Everybody has already said it, but just being a huge space crab and eating/destroying all that is before you is pretty fantastic. We can safely say that much of our time will be wasted on this game in the future. It's that great. The only thing we would like to see in this game is some sort of endless/sandbox type of mode where all you get is the vehicles with people in them. Every so often while playing all we want to do is crush things and eat them without being attacked by meteors or missiles or those dang police cars, or even be distracted by the break the blocks. While those are all very fun and we do enjoy them, sometimes we would just like to break spaceships in half and eat the people for a couple minutes. Other than that we would say the game is perfect, just maybe tighten up the controls a bit and it would be golden. All that aside, this game is great and you should own it. If you don't, we suggest changing that.
Holy smokes, this game is so full of win it's ridiculous! The graphics and sound are great, the mechanics are clever and fun, and the game is full of charm and character. It's actually more challenging than it would first appear and this aspect combined with the fast pace and random mini-game-like encounters keep each play-session fresh. Adding to the depth are features you can unlock with coins collected as you roam the galaxy smashing and eating things. These unlockables make you stronger or provide for new opportunities such as power/health boosts. Admittedly, the price is a bit higher than most games, so you may be asking yourself: "Is it worth it?" Well, above all else, Crabitron is incredibly fun and unique, so for us, the answer is a resounding "YES!" Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to get back to eating space ships, deflecting asteroids, and just being a giant space crab :).
Made this much easier to buy now that the price is lowered. Read about this game and told a friend's wife about it for her son and she bought it too. You're welcome.
This is quite literally the most enjoyable game we've purchased on the iPad … Kudos to Two Lives Left for a satisfying experience of destroying space ships with frikkin' lasers.
Please continue to support and update this.
Our non existent kids would love this but instead we play this alone and love it.
Well worth the money. Don't hesitate to buy this game.
Fun game and worth buying and five stars.
Best use of our fingers in a long time.
No need to say more, just download this game.
A game that is unique, fun, and doesn't take itself too seriously? The art style, controls, sound, and game play features are just full of that special exuberance reserved for the best games. Our only complaint is that we discover our fingers are all cramped after playing.
Stop everything and download this game. With intuitive controls, great gameplay, this is the best game on the iPad.
We got this game last night and played the heck out of it! It's so much fun to be a giant space crab! The controls are unique and pretty cool, it has a nice art style, and we're always finding new things to do in it! There are some pretty nice upgrades too. Get Crabitron, it's fantastic.
The space crab crushes and eats different types of space stuff (including sharks with freakin' lasers) using realistic physics. But it's not that easy. Some of the crab food fights back. Highly recommended.
Happiness is being a giant crab.
Awesome concept. Even better execution. We believe Two Lives Left have mastered the art of touch controls. Very happy to fund the Kick- whoops, we mean Crabstarter.
You get to play as a giant angry space crab who eats anything in his path of cosmic destruction… Could it get any better?! What an unbelievable original concept and flawless execution. The control scheme might seem odd at first, but it ends up working surprisingly well. Keep up the good work, guys. People, BUY THIS GAME NOW! Aright, we're getting back to our space crab now.
Glitches out and crashes during every Cyberclops fight. Otherwise, GREAT game, most original and entertaining that we've played in a long time.
This seemed like a pretty new idea for an iPad game so we gave it a whirl. The concept is really unique; you're a giant crab harassing everyone in space. Kind of like being Godzilla in a city – the idea is to destroy as much as you can. Graphics are spot on. We love the crab's goofy expressions as he eats things or gets shot at. We just wish he had some sort of funny sound effect to accompany that aside from the clinking of his claws. Music is pretty cool too. Not too annoying yet not to subtle. However, it doesn't cling to you the way another song would. Still, can't complain here. Controls are where we have mixed feelings. While the idea is pretty innovative, and it takes several plays to get the hang of it, there are areas where this idea has problems. First, if you have a screen protector, good luck. We have a military shield on our iPad, which so far has been pretty fluid with our fingers, but we suffered with this game. Moving four of our fingers erratically across the screen created a semi painful friction, making it hard to pinch the claws and progress without pausing and resting our fingers. We're assuming this game can be played normally without any screen protectors, but this is assuming nobody has protectors on. Secondly, if you cross the claws in an X motion, the game has trouble identifying which claw belongs to which fingers, and you might end up with tangled claws that become impossible to untangle unless you restart the mission. We had this happen to us twice already where they are tangled, and it assumes the left claw is being handled by our left finger, but the moment we put our right fingers down to get the right claw it freaks out and switches controls so our right fingers control the left claw and vice versa. It does this sporadic switching, so we can't untangle him, and it becomes frustrating when we're getting attacked. All in all, this game is fun, and got a few chuckles out of us. Our only gripe is controls, but it's also a new concept we haven't seen before so hats off to the developers for pulling this off. We're sure with further updates the controls will become more solid. We would recommend this game definitely if you are looking for something new and fun. Granted, 5 dollars is a little high, but since this has only two in app purchases that go away once you buy them we can overlook that.
Cool concept but not very deep. Controls are slightly awkward but fun.
Not much else to say but its a good game.
Hello we dont see any problems we think your should add a alien crab boss fight and you have to destroy its 8 eyes to win (make this the last level).
We dont have any arms so we cant play this (JOKE THIS GAME GOOD).
Game is great, but why does the crab have a barcode for 1 star-reviewed pomegranate juice on its body.
Ok so hear us out it is an awwwwwwwwwssssssome game but the controls are really annoying please fix it also the invaders come way to fast so we dont have a chance to do anything and our crab keeps getting its claws stuck plus we can only play for a few seconds and then it crashes for no reason please fix all of this and if you do maybe we wont sue you guys ok also we want more characters like a robot Crabitron or an upgrade for bigger claws or a boss that is your clone and an ending where you take over the world or something or different maps or a leg upgrade so you can walk in the game but please please please please add better controls and if you dont we will sue you.
Does not work with ios 9.3. How do we get a refund.
It was a great game. However it doesnt work with ios 11. We spent 2.99 on this game and now we cant even play it.
We love this GAME but it will not work on our iPad we cant play it anymore. We would love if you updated it to work.PLEASE! We Would be in you debt. Update for IOS11.THANKS.
Hi! We're writing a review, and we usually don't do that, but this is an exception. We really love this game, and have fully upgraded our crab, and we want more. We restarted it on our new iPad after, well, that. We feel like this review is going no where, but we just want more stuff! The game lost its edge after we fully upgraded it, because we knew we wasn't getting anywhere after that. If there were more and different upgrades added, and some other things, we would greatly appreciate it. We'd love to have different crabs with varying abilities, and mor upgrades to the crab. You would upgrade each crab individually, and each crab would be better and harder to get than the last. Give them interesting and funny names and "personalities." You could add things like magnetic claws and more powerful claw upgrades, and have unique upgrades for different crabs. We see so much more potential for a massively amazing game, and it's just sitting there gathering dust! Also, we think you should be able to switch out your hand for a blaster or something.
/\ | | This guy thinks we have four hands, but we're going to let that be. This game really does need some upgrades like a magnetic claw, or a an Aimee when you have a bullet in your claw it has a little aimer. It does need some more bosses too., and that's pretty much it.
-smoother gameplay -4 hands (cost 3000 coins) -hats -new boss (air fortress 2000).
Wow. This game can only happen on the iPad. There are so many enemy types, from 5th element type hover cars, police, to aliens. The physics are ever so satisfying when you crush a ship in your claws. The graphics are full retina and the artistic style is cute. It's not pay to win which is how all apps used to be. Worth the $3. We hope they make other games of this caliber.
Great game, have been playing on and off for about a year now. We have yet to experience any bugs. It is as challenging as it is fun.
This is our second favorite game on our iPad, but now you need to update it. We have had great fun playing with friends and family, but now we cant ever play again unless you update it. We hope that you have enough time to dedicate to this project.
It's a funny and cool game but the music doesn't work and our crab is all messed up.
Its a great game and very addicting to play but we cant play it unless you update it for iOS like Now. The gameplay is great and its a okay game please update it fast.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.19
- Size: 89.94 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Two Lives Left
Last updated: 23rd March 2019 | Genre: Action, Adventure | Developer: Two Lives Left