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The Crackpet Show: Prologue
The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“Excellent prologue cartoon action game in which we have to play as funny animals with unusual skills and go to fight in colorful arenas with other opponents. We have a choice of several unique characters, a variety of weapons and auxiliary perks with which to destroy crowds of…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Pretty good indie, but why can't you control the mouse >? Like you can shoot with the mouse, but there is no control why so,? A lot of textures are repeated, it's right in the eye strongly catches the feeling that the game is very much free. Otherwise, maybe they will fix it.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Cute little animals can not only please the eye or allow themselves to be stroked. They can also crush hordes of enemies with an impressive arsenal of various weapons.”
— a player, Steam review · 59 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-04 via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition | OUT NOW
Dear animal freakshow fans, The day we've all been waiting for has finally arrived! It's been quite a journey together, from Early Access in late 2021, and now, on September 27, 2023, we are releasing
The Crackpet Show is OUT NOW!
Dear animal-freakshow-lovers, Brutal rogue-lite shoot-em-up The Crackpet Show is now available on Steam Become a cuddly homicidal maniac and compete in a violent TV show to earn likes, sponsorships an
Finale airs on December 15th!
Dear animal-freakshow-lovers, You kept asking about the full launch, and all we could say was that it's coming this year. But after months of work on tons of new improvements and exciting content, inc
The Crackpet Show Prologue is here - play now!
Dear animal-freakshow-lovers, As promised - The Crackpet Show Prologue is here waiting for you to drop in! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216280/The_Crackpet_Show_Prologue/ And a quick recap for
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · Adventure · Rogue-like · Bullet Hell · Rogue-lite · Shoot 'Em Up · Colorful · Cute · Comedy · Funny · Controller · Co-op (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Cloud · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean |
| Official site | http://thecrackpetshow.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2.0 GHz Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX compatible graphics DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space