»» THE CLAW RECLUSE -- largest fansite for Monolith Productions' Captain Claw -- Links

A list of fansites, forums and Facebook pages dedicated to Claw. Sadly, I believe this list is now complete.

Major Claw Sites

The Claw Museum -- created by Grey Cat and dedicated to the Claw community, this is the place for you to post memories of the old days, as well as read others' stories. Highly recommended. Don't forget to leave a note!

As of 2017, the original site is down, making it impossible to add new comments. However, we have preserved its existing contents on our server for archival purposes.

Other Claw Sites

RedTail's Lair -- rather contentless, but seemingly eternal, this site has been around since the earliest days of Claw, and, through some twist of fate unbeknownst to us, has survived until today. Contains cheats, some links, and a poll.

Captain Claw -- a Czech fansite that was created in 2006 and hasn't been updated since.

Claw Forums

Claw Forum -- Polish, but contains an English section. Run by the people behind this site. Active since 2005 (albeit very sporadically these days), now contains over 80,000 posts.

Captain Claw -- a fairly large Russian community on the social networking service VK that includes several prominent level designers.

The Captain Claw Forum -- the administrator seems to be long gone, and so are visitors, with no new posts in 5 years. Probably the only remaining English forum after GCF's demise.

Claw Forum Espanol -- complements the quite popular Spanish version of this site, but only has a handful of posts (and a really nice Claw theme).

Claw Speedrun Leaderboard -- formed around the Claw subsection on Speedrun.com, this small community nonetheless managed to achieve quite incredible results and discover some glitches that were never known before in the process.

Claw on YouTube

LethalPwnager -- Zuczek's channel, as befits one belonging to this site's administrator, it was the first to feature complete videos of all Claw levels.

MawBTS -- Grey Cat's channel has playthroughs of several of his levels, and, more recently, a speed run of the game with audio commentary.

SugheroGame -- for the past several years, this has been the go-to place for custom level videos, with dozens of perfect score playthroughs and a diverse selection of maps.

renga@captainclawgamingz -- another channel dedicated to custom levels and targeting perfect scores, despite only being active for a couple of months it has managed to amass a sizable collection of videos. Might overtake Sughero's soon if updates continue at this pace.

Pappy QC -- Pappy has dedicated a lot of time to Claw speedruns and currently holds the world record for a full game run with an excellent time of 40:57. Further attempts can also be watched live on his Twitch channel.

Proximity94 -- apart from videos of his custom maps, Proximity's channel features strategy guides for specific levels in Claw's multiplayer mode.

Szyszul -- a series of videos (unfortunately, currently on hold) that explores custom levels chronologically, starting all the way from 1997, plus some miscellaneous Claw content.

PejtiGames -- an eclectic collection of Claw videos including playthroughs of Pejti's custom levels, recordings of multiplayer sessions, level design guides, piano tutorials for Claw music and various experiments with the CrazyHook mod.

Azzar -- as of mid-2020, Azzar's channel is nearing 120 videos for custom levels alone, plus, of course, a playthrough of the base game. Occasional livestreams, Polish commentary.

Cold Flame -- perfect score playthroughs of Cold Flame's excellent custom levels.

BorisHR -- speed run videos for individual levels, including 100% treasure runs for some of them, as well as a playthrough of the author's first, and only thus far, custom map.

Simpson1225 -- individual level speed runs and related videos, such as skips and shortcuts.

AndokaiCamanis -- perfect score playthroughs of all 14 base levels, and recently also the first successful 100% speedrun of the entire game, which took nearly six hours.

Baron FQ -- a new channel focused on perfect score custom level playthroughs.

Old Games Player -- Russian channel, run by Alexander Kondrashov. As far as I am aware, this is currently the only one on YouTube featuring a series that spans all user-made levels.

General Red, Strategist -- has a full playthrough of Claw with live English commentary, and now continues on to custom levels.

TaurusII -- last but not least, TaurusII's channel only has 1 (one) video: a perfect score playthrough of the greatest custom level ever, Stargate to Paradise.

Claw on Discord

TCR Discord -- the Discord server managed by the people behind the Claw Recluse and its forum. Has separate English, Polish and Russian chat rooms, and is generally quite active, for one dedicated to a 20-year-old game anyway.

Claw on Facebook

Claw -- a Facebook fan page for Claw that is currently managed by this site's administrator.

Captain Claw -- another Claw fan page.

Here's a list of various past fansites for Claw. While these links are now defunct, you can attempt to view cached copies using the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine website.

Defunct Links

Captain Claw Homepage -- the game's official site. Hadn't been updated for ages, but it wasn't until 2011 that it was finally taken down by Monolith. Contained cheats, downloads, tips and tricks, and a forum that had died a terrible death.

Meezo's Claw Levels Page -- the earliest full-fledged Claw fansite, created by Meezo, who also happened to be the first person to design custom levels back in 1997.

Finn's Claw Website -- in its time, this was the best Claw website on the internet, period.

Freyahawk's Page For Captain Claw -- a site made by one of Claw's younger fans. For the record, Freyashawk's mother used to be an active member of the Claw community in years gone by. But be warned, staring at that toxic pink background colour for long enough can be hazardous for your health. :)

The Gunner's Forum -- between 2006 and 2008, this was the main meeting place for the Claw community, and a major improvement over the official, unmoderated forum which had been completely overrun by spammers.

Captain Claw's Lair -- DzjeeAr's site. Hosted a large number of custom levels, including a 100+ map pack. Later was made obsolete by our Custom Levels section.

Snow-jemima's Art -- brilliant Claw fan art by snow-jemima, which can now be accessed via DeviantArt links here in our Fan Haven section.

Snow-jemima's Sketchery -- actually a subpage of the above, contained quick drawings and sketches. Definitely worth a look.

Edd Brown's Captain Claw Site -- while the layout was all over the place, the site itself was pretty comprehensive, with custom levels, links, polls, etc. Edd Brown, who designed a whopping 48 maps himself, seems to have vanished off the radar now.

Claw Junior's Page -- the site seems to still be there, but a buggy piece of javascript causes the page to constantly refresh, making it impossible to view. :(

Captain Nathaniel Claw -- Gunner's site, contained help on bosses, links and screenshots.

Xero's Site -- site by Xero9009, mostly about his custom level.

Random Claw Junk -- site made by No, mostly about her custom level and a basic explanation of the game.