Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Castle Crashers
Try the DLC at PAX East!
The DLC is coming this summer–are you ready?!
If you’re going to be at PAX East this upcoming May 8 - May 11, you can be one of the first to experience the DLC on one of our shiny new 2-player Painter Boss Paradise arcade cabinets! We’ll be hosting a 1v1v1v1 Arena Tournament on Saturday, May 10, right after the Tom Fulp Meetup finishes! Yes, the Tom Fulp!
We understand not everybody can make it to PAX, which is why this year we wanted to bring the show to you as much as we can! Our PAX Live Blog has kicked off ahead of the tradeshow madness, and a Behemoth Birdie told me there might be an online giveaway for a set of Castle Crashers Knight Plushies, just like the one we’re doing at the show!
Check back on our live blog during the show (May 8 - May 11) for details on how to enter, not to mention an actual live feed of updates being piped directly from the show floor to you looking at these words on your screen!
Castle Crashers Herbert’s Paradise is coming soon to Steam! Every playable character in the game will be Herbert, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
In case you actually want a Castle Crashers full of Herberts, be sure to wishlist the Painter Boss Paradise DLC to get notified as soon as it releases this summer:
The Green Knight fandom came out in full force for our art contest!
After careful deliberation, we have selected the winners of our Green Knight art contest with a special surprise - SIX total entries have won a Green Knight Prize! That never happens!*
*This actually keeps happening because you are all too talented
Click on the button below to see all the winning art, the extra honorable mentions handpicked by Dan Paladin, and our Green Knight Gallery!
A BEHEMOTH thank you to our community of Green Knight afficionados for filling our inbox with the joy of over THREE HUNDRED contest entries!
The Steam Spring Sale has sprung with Behemoth game deals!
Spring means that it’s almost time for summer, right? The Painter Boss Paradise DLC lands early this summer, RIGHT?
YES! Thank you so much for your patience as we develop the DLC and the rest of our Behemoth Roadmap projects! We can’t wait to get this custom character tool in your hands and create together!
If you're looking for a different co-op game to check out before then, may I interest you in some chicken arcade goodness? Now through March 20th, you can grab any of The Behemoth’s co-op titles at a discount thanks to the Steam Spring Sale!
The Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC releases early this summer here on Steam, featuring custom character capabilities and redrawn art for all official characters and weapons! You can add the DLC to your wishlist today!
A Green Knight St. Patrick’s Day art contest is currently underway! Submissions are due by 11:59 PM PDT on March 17, 2025. You can find the complete contest rules and criteria on our blog here.
Alien Hominid HD and Alien Hominid Invasion are slated for a Spring release on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5! More intel coming sooooon. 👽
Our team is still hard at work on the BattleBlock Theater quality of life update for Steam, and we thank you for your patience as we prepare this title for its modern console release!
A Green Knight Art Contest Appears!
The Behemoth’s here to sprinkle some luck and cheer–when things are otherwise grey and drear!
Oh, and did we mention it’s happening this summer? That’s right, the Painter Boss Paradise DLC now has an official launch window of Summer 2025! The DLC's price has been set to $3.99, but more information about regional pricing will be available soon.
So.. what now?
Share your powerful characters with us in the Artwork tab of the Castle Crasher’s Community Hub! We’ll choose a few of our favorites to highlight ahead of the DLC’s release this summer.
Watch our recent DLC development update on YouTube. We show off two new characters AND tease a redrawn game map! (There’s also a playlist of all our CCPBPDLC content here if you just want MORE.)
Wishlist the DLC!!! This is the easiest way to support the DLC’s development, and you’ll also get notified by Steam as soon as it releases!
Closer to release, we’ll share tutorials on how to use the template (along with the template itself), load your character into the game, and download other characters from the Steam Workshop. There’s also a young painter waiting patiently for their debut…
Thank you so much for all of the support on this DLC and the rest of our Behemoth Roadmap projects! We can’t wait to finally unveil the Steam Workshop and create a world of infinite possibilities in Castle Crashers together! As always, let us know what you think, and we’ll see you on YouTube and Twitch tomorrow, February 14th, at 12:00 PM PST for a quick CCPBPDLC stream!
Castle Crashers is 90% off, and a DLC development update lands Thursday!!!
Our Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise February development update lands this Thursday, February 13th, at 10:00 AM PST on our YouTube channel!!!
That's all we can really say about it without spoiling anything, so...
Castle Crashers is 90% off (again!!!) thanks to Steam's Couch Co-op Sale!
Our newest title isn't a co-op one, nor is it on sale, but we've included it here in case you feel inspired to save baby chicks and go the distance! Make John Behemoth proud! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3027260/BEHEMOTH/
Painter Boss Paradise DLC Development Update
Happy New Year, knights!
Our team can’t thank you enough for the immense support, anticipation, and patience you’ve provided for this project, and we look forward to providing Steam Workshop integration to Castle Crashers for the first time EVER this year!!
Here’s a quick rundown of everything previously announced for the DLC:
Steam workshop capabilities – create your own knight skins, choose your magic, and share with the world!
New official character: play as Paint Junior, use your imagination, and create powerful art to vanquish your foes!
New player and weapon artwork for all official playable characters (with an option to toggle on or off).
Last month, we shared a DLC development update during our end-of-year stream, which you can watch in its clipped form here! As announced in the video, our next DLC development update will take place next month!
Custom Characters
There’s a lot of cool new menu art and screens we shared during the broadcast, but first, let’s get to the BEEF of this update – the custom characters! Need some inspiration? Look no further than these nine designs from our art team!
Green Knight, are you okay???
When creating a custom character, there will also be sections on the template for a Back Off Barbarian piece, character portrait (shown in character select and level UI), and post-sandwich BEEFY form. You can get pretty creative with what your character can look like after eating a sandwich:
Beefy time? More like GOALIE time!
Since the template has multiple frames to animate your character's head in game, you can have some fun with their facial expressions while attacking or even at rest. Take our winking monkey, for example:
Main Menu Art and DLC UI Update
Upon loading up the DLC after its release, you will be greeted with a new screen offering options for either OLD or FRESH art. Well, we aren’t here today to reminisce about the year you were born, so let’s choose FRESH.
“WAIT – WHAT IS THAT I SEE AFTER CHOOSING FRESH? NEW CASTLE CRASHERS MAIN MENU ART IN 2025?”
That’s right! There will be six new art scenes from iconic moments throughout the game, all rotating in the main menu. This new main menu art will be available for ALL OWNERS of the game, even if you don’t have the DLC! Here’s a quick sneak peek at one of them:
Check out our recent YouTube livestream to see all six scenes!
Next, we’ll head down to that freshly painted Painter Boss Paradise button and dive in! Here is another new screen that allows you to enable, create, or preload characters from the Workshop:
Hitting the ENABLE button allows you to see all the characters you’ve created or imported from the Workshop. You’ll have to assign them to a character slot in the ENABLE menu in order to see them in the character select screen.
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From there, you’ll be able to choose one of these powerful creations during character selection! If you’re interested in seeing Dan and Amanda run around the map with the new DLC characters, check out the stream recap below, and stay tuned for an even BEEFIER development update coming in February!
90% off Castle Crashers? AGAIN?!
Behemoth Santa is here with one last 90% off deal on Castle Crashers for Steam! Wait.. none of the knights left out milk and cookies for Behemoth Santa? That’s okay – the bearded chicken still has a present for you!
Today through January 2nd, you can grab any of The Behemoth’s co-op games for a great deal! Is there really anything greater than the gift of Castle Crashers?
The outpouring of both new and newly rediscovered love for Castle Crashers following the announcement of the Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC was unprecedented and overwhelming! We have been hard at work preparing the game for Steam Workshop capabilities and updating art to make the DLC the best it can be. As announced in our recent livestream, we should have a beefier progress update to share in February.
Be sure to follow us on Steam and social media for all Behemoth Roadmap announcements, and see you next year! 🐔❤️
Enjoy a BEEFY Discount during the Steam Autumn Sale!
Castle Crashers is a BEEFY 90% OFF during the Steam Autumn Sale!
WAKE UP BABE, another Castle Crashers 90% off discount just dropped! Bosses are waiting to be slayed, and your princess is waiting to be saved! What are you waiting for?!
Almost* all of our games are discounted in Steam’s Autumn Sale, from this very moment in Earth time until Wednesday, December 4th!
*If you’re a rebel and prefer to buy games during sales that AREN’T on sale, our latest release, BEHEMOTH, is NOT on sale, AND only $3.99!
Running November 27 until December 2, get 30% off your order with the following code:
GobbleyGoop
And as if a sale wasn’t enough, we just dropped a bunch of fresh merch for you! Be sure to get any holiday merch orders in before our holiday store closure this year, beginning on December 12! (Some exclusions may apply)
The outpouring of both new and newly rediscovered love for Castle Crashers following the announcement of the Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC was unprecedented and overwhelming ♥️. We’re thankful to have been crashing castles for all these years, and are looking forward to bringing Painter Boss Paradise to life and sharing it with you, the community who helps make this all possible!
As we move forward in our Roadmap, simultaneously working on multiple updates and projects all at once, we cannot overstate how much we appreciate your patience as we develop the DLC into the very best that it can be for you. The Sistine Chapel was not painted in a day, and though we’ve been trying our best to convey this concept to Painter Boss, he is understandably enthusiastic to share this DLC with you.
Make sure to sign up for our mailing list and follow us on Steam and socials if you haven’t already! We promise that as soon as we have more information ready to share, you’ll be the first to hear it!
