Welcome to The Claw Recluse, the largest fansite on the internet for Monolith Productions' classic PC game Claw. Originally started as a hobby in 2004, the site is now home to a community that over two decades has modded the game, developed a new map editor, designed over 600 custom levels, created fan art, and set speedrun records. Thank you for visiting!

TCR is available in English, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Russian, Romanian, Arabic, and Hungarian.



26/01/26 An extraordinary twist of fate saw the any% Claw speedrun record broken twice in one day: the first sub-35 minute run by Pappy (with 34:42) was followed by BorisHR's 33:50 just a few hours later. Incredible. At this rate, it will have gone below 30 minutes by Claw's 30th anniversary next year! ;)

19/01/26 Zax37 published a new release of the WapMap level editor, with v0.5.0 adding support for custom color palettes, fixing a number of crashes and other issues, and bringing many small improvements related to managing objects. The full changelog is available here.

17/01/26 If you missed Pappy's 24-hour Claw stream late last month, you can now watch it condensed in 17 minutes thanks to his best moments compilation. The whole thing is also archived in two videos (with small AFK parts cut to fit them on YouTube), by the way.

12/01/26 It seems our community has lost a relic of its earliest days as RedTail's Lair, one of the very first fansites for the game -- which, while unchanged this century, inexplicably remained accessible until now -- appears to be down for good. It never had much content, but nonetheless is a piece of Claw history, thankfully preserved by the Internet Archive.

3/01/26 Renganathan prepared a short video recap covering all 35 custom levels released during the past year. We also have the first one of 2026, designed by Fjordsson.

1/01/26 Happy new year! The complete level pack has been updated, and until the end of January, you can vote for your favorite custom levels from 2025 through our bot on Discord. Feel free to join the community there to discuss your choices, see some previews of what our level designers are up to in 2026, or even just say hi. If you are short on time this month, we also have full playthroughs of all nominated maps available via YouTube links.

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