Even almost two months after its release, Squid Game is still one of the most watched series on Netflix, and the hype surrounding the Korean series seems to be endless.
After the first video game implementations on the Roblox gaming platform were able to inspire hundreds of thousands of players, Steam now also has its own Squid Game game Crab Game
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We played the new Battle Royale for you and we had a terrible time. But that’s not the only reason why you should avoid the Steam hit right now.
Update from November 5th: According to developer Dani, the critical vulnerability that allowed other players to see your IP address has now been closed.
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This is what awaits you in Crab Game
Anyone who’s watched the Netflix series can certainly guess what Crab Game is about: Up to 40 players compete in a fight for life and death in various mini-games, in which the losers bless the time.
Of course, the disciplines include many games that you already know from the template: At Red light, green light
the opponents have to reach a finish line, but are only allowed to move as long as the traffic light is green. In addition, there are own creations such as jumping around on fragile ice floes, where you are not allowed to fall into the water. There are also various team games.
The game doesn’t take itself seriously at all, which is also its biggest selling point: The player models look totally crazy and the physics is so strangely strong that you can push other players to the other side of the room with your hits.
Crab Game is currently a huge hit on Steam, according to SteamDB over 40,000 Steam users at the same time.
Why you should stay away from it
No, the crab game is actually not a crap game: the mini-games are implemented competently and could theoretically even be a lot of fun. But Crab Game has a big problem
As soon as you step onto a server, you’ll be faced with the worst voice chat experience since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360. It’s not only incredibly loud because it feels like 20 players are shouting into the microphone at the same time or playing ear cancer-causing music – the level is also below all pig.
Hitler greetings or the introspection of the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied are more the rule than the exception. In addition, the worst insults you can imagine are thrown at each other.
In the following video you can get an impression of how we fared on a relatively moderate server – if you use headphones, you should However, turn down the volume beforehand:
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Fortunately, voice chat can be turned off, but there is an even bigger problem: Crab Game has significant security flaws. Not only are there numerous cheaters on the road, your PC could even be the target of hacker attacks.
Crab Game does not rely on dedicated servers, but on that Facepunch Steam Peer2Peer Network.
As the developer of the game has now announced, it can occasionally leak your IP address to other players, so that you could be the target of DDOS attacks or worse:
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Developer Dani is currently working on converting to a secure network solution, but it should still take a few days until implementation. If you really want to play Squid Game on the PC, you should at least stay away from public servers until then – or you wait for the official Squid Game game, which according to Netflix is already planned.