Play Risk of Rain 2 as the crab from Crab Champions.
Risk of Crab adds a new survivor, the Crab, to the character select screen. It is the real one: its model, textures and animations are read from your own copy of Crab Champions every time the game starts.
What you get
Pick your gun in the Loadout tab: the Auto Rifle (35 rounds, full auto), the Dual Shotguns (one in each claw) or the Rocket Launcher (coconut rockets).
Claw: a 360 degree swipe that knocks everything away from you.
Dash: a short dash in any direction, also in the air.
Grenade: explodes on impact.
Double jump with a flip, full air control, and a crab that scuttles sideways while it aims.
Items, levels, the drop pod and the rest of a normal run all work. The Crab has its own logbook page.
What you need
Risk of Rain 2 on Steam. Made and tested on version 1.4.1.
Crab Champions installed through Steam on the same PC. Nothing from Crab Champions is in the download: the mod reads the crab from your own copy. Without it the game still runs, and a message on the title screen tells you the Crab could not join.
Melty installs the loader (BepInEx 5) for you. No other mods are needed.
Good to know
Single player for now. Playing with friends has not been tested.
English text only. Items work but are not shown on the Crab.
If a Crab Champions update makes the Crab disappear, the rest of the game keeps working until the mod is updated.
Credits
Crab Champions is by Noisestorm; the Crab, its guns and its animations are theirs and stay in their game. Risk of Rain 2 is by Hopoo Games and Gearbox. The reader for Crab Champions' files uses a C# port of the Kraken decoder from ooz by Powzix. This is a fan-made mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Built with Claude.
Free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. The full source code is included in the download.
