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CRAIC!

A pirate octopus. A stranded wreck. A surprising amount of work.

Join the beta on Discord How it works

Comic panel: Craic, a purple octopus with a red bandana, finds a stranded shipwreck in the sunny shallows.
Page one of the log: a roof, a door, and a surprising amount of work.

Craic washed ashore — and stayed. Wave after wave, the deep attacks his new home, and Craic holds the line: with eight arms, strong opinions and a growing crew. CRAIC! is hands-on tower defense and an idle game you can leave running — painted like a comic, told like a ship's log, fully in English and German.

Three rooms, one wreck

Knacks, a crab with a wrench and an eye patch, working on the hull breach.
The Shipyard. Knacks patches what the waves tear — and builds whatever you can afford. Every plank pays into the next fight.
Lotl's laboratory inside the wreck, full of apparatus and ideas.
The Lab. Lotl researches in real time — thirty seconds, two minutes, ten. What comes out changes how you play.
The cabin with four bunks; a small krill sits in the back one.
The Crew. From a single krill to a full company — everyone aboard keeps working, even while you sleep.

The voyage

The attacks come from out there — and every wave comes from a little further away. To hold the wreck, you sail toward the source: through the shallows, out into the reef, and the map ends mid-sentence.

Hand-drawn parchment map of world one, The Shallows, wreck in the middle, notes in the margins.
»The wreck doesn't look back, because it's a wreck. 'See you later,' says Craic anyway.«

Why CRAIC!

It respects your time. Five minutes is a wave, an evening is a voyage — and both work offline; the game needs no connection.

It respects your choice. Ads are opt-in reward videos only — you trigger them, or you don't. Purchases are shortcuts, not walls.

It has a handwriting. Every panel painted, every room a story, every character with a mind of its own — from the cleaner fish ("Anything else?" — "No. But thoroughly.") to a steering wheel you have to dig up first.

The old, seized steering wheel — broken, with algae and barnacles.

How to join the beta (Android, closed test via Google Play):

  1. Join our Discord. That's where the crew hangs out, where news lands first, and where we collect bugs and ideas.
  2. Join the tester group with the Google account you use in the Play Store. That puts you on the tester list automatically.
  3. As soon as the beta opens, the Play link to activate it is posted on Discord. Install CRAIC! and set sail.

Still in dry dock for a moment: the beta opens after a few final tweaks. Join the group now — you'll be in automatically at launch, and Discord hears about it first.

Join the beta on Discord Join the tester group

The tester group is a Google Group: you can join and leave it yourself at any time. No Discord? Write to support@craicgame.com — we'll get you aboard anyway.

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