A downloadable game for Windows


Listen carefully, you are not alone. They like to play with their food; they enjoy the hunt, but their hunger grows. Their patience will eventually run out. Keep crawling and get out before they decide that they are done playing games and ready to feast.


The Crawl is a short sound-based horror rouge-like. Venture trough a procedurally generated ventilation shaft with multiple regions. Each run you'll encounter different regions and gain different perks. Endure the crawl and survive the monsters that call this place their home.

For an extra challenge try to see how far you can make it in endless, or take on hardcore mode, where even the slightest mistake can end your run.

This game heavily relies on auditory clues, so headphones are almost necessary.

This game is on the shorter end with a singular run/crawl on normal difficulty taking about 30 minutes to complete. You will however most likely have at least a few crawls that end in death before managing to escape.

This game is pretty difficult. You will need to be able to distinguish the monsters' sounds from the sounds of the environment, which might take a bit to learn. Although the game is difficult it is still consistently beatable

We highly recommend playing the in-game tutorial to get a feel of the gameplay, along with getting to hear a small sample of what audio to listen out for (as requested by some of our play-testers).

Five Clover Games
Updated 4 hours ago
Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Publisher
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorFive Clover Games
GenreSurvival
Made withUnity, Aseprite, Adobe Photoshop, Audacity, Paint.net
Tags3D, Atmospheric, Horror, Pixel Art, Retro, Roguelike, Short, Simple, Singleplayer, Survival Horror
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
LinksYouTube

Download

Download
The Crawl (v.1.0.1) 60 MB
Download
Original Release (v. 1.0.0) 60 MB

Install instructions

Download the .zip file, unzip it, open the generated folder, then run "The Crawl.exe"

Development log

Comments

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Hello.
So, what's the puzzle here? (I can't interact with anything)

The six switches at the bottom of the panel are used to solve the puzzle. The values -3 to 3 (excluding zero) are randomly assigned to each of the switches. You have to make the number shown on the big screen match the number on the smaller screen.

I hindsight we should've maybe made that more clear. We hope this helps

No, it doesn't help and yes, you should have made it more clear, since a player goes into your game completely blind. I am not saying to hold their hand and carry them through the game, but giving 0 direction is poor design. Furthermore I can't interact with your game. Sadly, disappointed. 

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We're sorry to hear that. The tutorial was admittedly rushed to meet a deadline outside of our control. But we appreciate your feedback.

We've released a new patch that hopefully addresses your concerns along with some of our own.