Claw Stars, the popular claw machine-based casual game from Appxplore, is just about to hold a collab event involving the beloved Minto character Usagyuuun.
Starting in the coming months, once the Claw Stars x Usagyuuun event is underway you’ll be able to explore the Claw Stars universe with the iconic white rabbit at the helm of your galactic spaceship.
On the off-chance that you’ve never played Claw Stars, it’s one of the most innovative and addictive casual games of the last five years.
It sees you travelling from planet to planet, plunging a giant claw into mounds of gold, power-ups, and other items, in a bid to rescue an army of trapped animals and add them to your collection.
Usagyuuun, meanwhile, is a loveable and malleable cross between a rabbit and a rice cake who has become a cult favorite among fans of adorable, if bizarre, WhatsApp stickers.
Here are four reasons we think you should get involved in the Claw Stars x Usagyuuun event when it goes live.
Success Squared
Even if you’ve never played Claw Stars and you’ve never downloaded, shared, or received a Usagyuuun sticker, you can be pretty sure they’re both worth your while.
Why? Because more than 571 million people can’t be wrong, and that’s how many people have downloaded Claw Stars (1 million+) and Usagyuuun stickers (570 million+) in total over the last few years.
Meanwhile, Appxplore’s library of games has well over 40 million downloads under its belt, and Usagyuuun creator Minto’s characters have been downloaded more than 6 billion times. That’s three quarters of the world’s population.
Oh, and Claw Stars is an award-winner, too, having picked up Google’s Best Pick Up & Play gong in 2021.
Perfect combo
“Usagyuuun fits perfectly into the Claw Stars universe and resonates with fans of both IPs”.
Those are the words of Appxplore CCO Lim Jenn Yu. And, sure, that’s exactly what you’d expect the creator of the Claw Stars franchise to say. But here’s the thing: he’s dead right.
Claw Stars is a game about rescuing cute animals, and Usagyuuun is a cute animal. Not only that, but the loveable white rabbit embodies the same mischievous, chaotic humor as the super-evolved hamsters of Claw Stars.
Basically, Usagyuuun and Claw Stars were meant to be together.
Exclusive Chat Stickers
Anyone who has spent any time with Claw Stars will know that it has a brilliant multiplayer component.
Not only can you sabotage the efforts of other players and kidnap their animals, but you can also socialize and take part in team events.
Grabbing at stuff with a claw doesn’t necessarily seem like the most communal activity, but Appxplore has really made Claw Stars work as a social game—and the Claw Stars x Usagyuuun collab makes the social stuff even more fun.
How? By giving you a range of unique, custom Usagyuuun stickers to share in-game.
More to Come
It’s always a good idea to read the small print.
In the press release for the Claw Stars x Usagyuuun event, the aforementioned Lim Jenn Yu reveals that this collab may just be the first of many.
He says, “I believe this is just the first step towards more long-term collaborations with Minto and possibly introducing new IPs across our games”.
So we’re not just on the precipice of a cool Claw Stars event. We’re on the precipice of a whole series of them, potentially involving characters like Piyomaru the chicken, Betakkuma the humanoid bear, and others.
Make sure you download Claw Stars for free right now on the Google Play Store or the App Store.
