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Super Crate Box
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “crate-based weapon switching” (24 of 96 reviews) and “free arcade entertainment” (10); the most common complaint is “punishing enemy intensity” (13). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
24 of the 96 reviews raise this.
10 of the 96 reviews raise this.
“pretty neat. little gem of a free game you could play offline on a plane or car trip. although maybe today it's a bit borring.”
“Honestly, it made me laugh so much while playing it myself, but asking a very good friend of mine to play it and stream for me, without telling them anything about it, what the controls are, nothing, was some of the…”
“Great arcade game that is free! It's like the original Mario Bros but if you gave Mario various guns to shoot Goombas!”
5 of the 96 reviews raise this.
5 of the 96 reviews raise this.
4 of the 96 reviews raise this.
13 of the 96 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
9 of the 96 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
4 of the 96 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
3 of the 96 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
3 of the 96 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Honestly, it made me laugh so much while playing it myself, but asking a very good friend of mine to play it and stream for me, without telling them anything about it, what the controls are, nothing, was some of the…”
Counted across 96 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 88.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Good game, got 100% in ~3 hours but would play more to get 100 points in every map. Truly, a Vlambeer game TIP: Use "Browse local files" on Super Crate Box, open options.ini and set AlternateSyncMethod= to 0 if the game runs in 2000 FPS”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Sadly this game is unplayable unless you change your refresh rate to 60 fps, I assume. The game is one of those that depends completely on frame rate. So if you have a 180 hz monitor like me, the game is at 3x speed. And it doesn't have a dedicated FPS limiter, which is quite…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“This weird cube thing goes on a shooting spree in random locations, killing monsters with all sorts of guns. Its good for a free game with an interesting style for its gameplay. Its an arcade game where you gain points by switching weapons, forcing a sense of adaptability to get…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-04 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Free to Play · Indie · Platformer · Pixel Graphics · Action · 2D · Shooter · Arcade · Multiplayer · Singleplayer · Difficult · Retro (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | http://www.vlambeer.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: 1.2 Ghz Memory: 512 MB RAM DirectX®: 8.0 Hard Drive: 100 MB HD space