Your gamertag is your name online. Friends add you by typing it, so pick one you can share: 3-16 letters, numbers or _. You pick it once: later changes need an admin's OK.
Guests play under a temporary name, so friends add you with your friend code (below). to pick your own gamertag.
No friends yet. Add someone by their gamertag, or the people in your party.
A clan is your crew: up to 30 players under one tag, with its own chat. Invite clan mates to your party in one click.
Pick a slot, then a look. It shows on your squaddie and your name card at once, and everyone in your party and your battles sees it.
0The card behind your name: in the lobby, on the winners' podium, in party lists and on the scoreboard.
The colour and glow of your name, everywhere it shows.
A small icon in front of your name.
A few words under your name.
One of your own numbers on your name card. It climbs from Bronze to Diamond as the number grows.
The colour of your squad in battle. In a party, everyone wears the leader's.
On your squaddie's head: in the lobby, in battle and on the winners' podium.
Over your squaddie's eyes. They go up and down with your emotes.
Glasses and goggles, or new eyes altogether.
A look for every weapon you pick up.
On your squaddie's hands, and in first person.
Your emote wheel holds eight. Pick a slot on it, then the emote for that slot. Play them with the Emote button, or hold B and point: in the lobby, on the winners' podium and in battle (moving stops an emote).
Click a look to try it on
This week
Win battles to climb. With equal wins, more knock-outs go first, then fewer times knocked out. Only players with an account take part, and every Monday at 00:00 UTC the board starts again from zero.
Click Resume to grab the mouse again.
Muting a teammate only stops you hearing them.
The battle was running on their computer, so it ended for everyone. Your level and stats are safe.
Playing as a guest. with a free account.
Stack crates to build weapons and vehicles, then lead your squad to flatten every other base.
New here? The tutorial is a short guided battle that takes about four minutes.
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Play with a keyboard and mouse, or a gamepad. Early beta: expect bugs, and progress may be reset. To run friends, clans, chat and the leaderboard we store a guest account, your name, your match results, your friend and clan chat lines, and the players you block or report online. Voice chat and shared battles connect directly between the players in a party (through a relay when a direct connection is not possible), so they can see each other's network address. By playing online you agree to the Terms and the Privacy policy.
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Music plays in the lobby and in battle, and picks up when enemies are close. Voices are your party's voice chat. Master turns everything up or down.
Click a key, then press the one you want. A key that is taken swaps places with the one that had it. The mouse, the gamepad and Esc stay as they are.
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You can play everything in The Crate Game. Text and voice chat stay off for players under 13 until a parent or guardian says yes.
Parents: email contact@thecrategame.com with your child's player name and friend code (in the Friends tab), and we will switch chat on.
Grab crates, stack them into weapons and vehicles, and flatten every other squad: knock out their squaddies and destroy their HQs. The last squad standing wins. There is no time limit.
Crates rain down on the crate spots: one in front of every base, one on every border between two bases and the Big Drop in the middle. Stand in a spot to capture it (more squaddies capture faster). Once your colour holds it, only your squad can lift its crates.
Carry crates home with E and stack them on your pad (2 by 2, 2 high). The shape decides what you get (see Crate recipes). Punch a finished stack with F to open it: one punch per crate, four at most. Careful: enemies can open your stacks too, or lift crates off your pad.
Red crates drop on every spot. Blue ones drop on the borders (1 in 10) and at the Big Drop (3 in 10), green ones only at the Big Drop (1 in 20). One blue crate makes the whole stack blue; one green crate makes it green, the best tier.
While your HQ stands, you are back at base 8 seconds after a knock-out. If it falls, nobody in your squad comes back and your pad can only build a wall (2 side by side + 2 on top). A wall rebuilds the HQ, or mends it (what it cannot mend becomes a shield).
Bots fill the empty places in your squad. Give orders with 1 to 5: follow, defend here, attack there, build or auto. Tap G to ping what you aim at. Squaddies on Follow climb into your truck; honk (left click) to call them.
Bullets drop a little and hit softer far away: aim a touch high, and right click zooms. Shoot trees to knock them down; they often drop a health pack. Knocked out? Click to watch your squad until you are back.
The shape of a stack decides what it opens into, and its best crate colour decides the tier. Nothing is luck: the same stack always gives the same thing.
The pad refuses a crate that would make a shape with no recipe, and tells you why. 4 flat + 1 or 3 on top are steps on the way to a vehicle and cannot be opened yet. You can never build a squaddie: they come back by themselves while your HQ stands.
You can change the keys in Settings.
| Mouse | Look / aim |
| WASD | Move (in vehicles: forward and back are the throttle, left and right steer) |
| Shift / Space | Sprint / jump (in the Gyrocopter: hold Space to climb into the sky, Shift to come down) |
| LMB | Fire, throw a carried crate, or honk the horn when you drive a truck, Technical or Gyrocopter (their first passenger fires the gun) |
| RMB | Zoom (scope with the Long Rifle and the Rail Rifle) |
| F | Punch (opens stacks) |
| E | Pick up / stack where you look / take weapon / drive / hop in or out (the first seat in the back works the gun) |
| C | Vehicle cargo: load / unload crates |
| V | Vehicle camera: chase / first person (driving or riding) |
| Tab | Hold for the scores: your kills and deaths, and every squad |
| G | Ping for your squad: tap to mark what you aim at, hold for the wheel (capture, enemy, crates, defend, help) |
| 12345 | Squad orders: follow, defend here, attack / capture there, build, auto (squad decides) |
| Esc | Pause and release the mouse |
| M | Mute |
| T | Party voice chat: join, mute / unmute your mic |
| Enter | Type to your squad (Shift+Enter for everyone in the battle). Enter again sends. |
| Shift+Tab | Chat window: party, clan and friends (squad and all chat in a shared battle) |
| Click / Right click | While you are knocked out: watch the next / previous squaddie of your squad |
Left stick move, right stick look, RT fire, LT zoom, B punch, X use, A jump, RB cargo, hold Y scores, press the right stick (R3) to ping, D-pad orders, LB auto orders, Start pause. Knocked out: RT / LT watch the next / previous squaddie.
"Defend here" and "Attack there" use the spot under your crosshair; aim "Attack there" at a crate spot to send your squad to capture it. On "Auto" your squaddies split up by themselves: some build, some take and guard crate spots, some raid. Squaddies on "Follow" climb into your truck automatically; honk to call everyone nearby.