2026-07-13 19:14 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Hear ye, hear ye! We’re BACK with yet ANOTHER patch for Castle Crashers and Painter Boss Paradise! Today’s updates include some fixes for bugs reported by the community, quick art patch-ups, and instructions for alt-tabbing in the game with ease! Thank you to all community members who have reported issues to our team. This big chicken is filled with appreciation!NEW Alt-Tab SettingAdding -nopausewhenfocuslost to the command line will now disable pausing when the window loses focus!How do????In your Library, right-click Castle Crashers and select Properties.In the General tab, go to the Launch
2026-06-24 19:42 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Greetings to all knights, young painters, and every Painter Boss Paradise custom character in between! We’re back today with another patch to deploy some fixes for Mac, in addition to fixing some reported issues within Painter Boss Paradise and the base Castle Crashers game. As always, let us know what you think, and don’t forget to stock up on potions before your next adventure!MacAdded borderless fullscreen support.Fixed issue with Rich Presence not working properly.Now shows the default ‘pbplocal’ folder when importing skins in the Painter Boss Paradise DLC editor.Assigned controller push-t
2025-11-24 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
This year, the big chicken asks you to consider nominating Castle Crashers for the honor of Steam's Labor of Love Award! Interested in learning some quick history about all the love we've poured into our second-ever game baby? Read on! Where it all began: the Castle Crashers demo at Comic Con 2005!We first shared a playable demo of Castle Crashers at San Diego Comic Con back in 2005! Running on a GameCube dev kit, this early version had slightly different designs for our four brave champions and was codenamed “Ye Olde Sidescroller.” After three years of hard work, Castle Crashers was officiall
2025-11-03 18:08 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Happy November, knights! Can you believe it’s been three months since the release of Painter Boss Paradise? We hope you had an amazing Halloween, but it’s time to move on to a VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT we’re sure you’ve all been excitedly anticipating. Cheeks. Are. Back!!!!! You heard that right. Alien Hominid’s butt cheeks are BACK in today’s patch, along with a myriad of updates and bug fixes for both the Global version of Castle Crashers and the Painter Boss Paradise DLC! Let's get right into it, shall we? MacFixed an issue with text getting cut off in the Manager menuFixed an issue with
2025-10-16 20:32 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Chick-or-treat! We’re back with our annual Behemoth Halloween Art Contest, Painter Boss Paradise edition! This year, you’ll need to choose ANY character from our games, then dress them up in a costume found in the Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC Steam Workshop.For example, you could dress up Hatty Hattington as a BOTTLE OF RANCH, or Red Knight as a GREEN KNIGHT PLUSHIE! Three (3) winners located in the USA will receive a Skeleton Figurine and Necromancer Plushie! Winners outside of the United States will receive a Steam gift card. Entries are accepted until the end of Monday, October
2025-09-26 16:33 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
A lucky 13 years ago today, Castle Crashers landed on Steam! 🍰This game baby of ours has seen a lot over the years, like a remaster through the Barbarian Makeover Update back in 2015, to a new DLC in 2025! Thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy (or more), told a friend about it, or left a review over the years; it truly means a lot to our small but Behemoth team and it helps us continue to Make Games!Here's what the menu looked like way back when for a little dose of nostalgia:Much love,The Behemoth Team
2025-08-18 19:16 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Happy Monday, knights! How have your Painter Boss Paradise adventures been treating you? We hope you’ve been having a grand time playing as Paint Junior, creating custom knight skins for the Steam Workshop, and enjoying all the new art the DLC has to offer!Today we have a few bug fixes to deploy, including fixes for the double/overlapped body piece and achievement tracking for Custom Characters. We appreciate your patience as we tackle these issues and thank the community members who have reported bugs to our support team!FixesRemoved the doubled/overlapped body piece for Custom CharactersIssu
2025-08-13 19:16 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Join us for a Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC stream tomorrow, August 14th, at 2:00 PM PDT on YouTube and Twitch! We'll be playing as custom characters made by YOU, the community that makes it all possible for this big chicken! See you there!!!
2025-08-08 00:20 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Why hello there, crashers of castles! Today we’re back with another small Painter Boss Paradise hotfix to address some issues with online matchmaking and properly allow Mac users to upload to the Workshop!Fixes1. Issued a fix for Mac users not being able to upload Custom Characters to the Steam Workshop 2. Slayed a Network Goblin causing issues with online matchmakingWe appreciate your patience as we tackle these issues and hope everyone is having an amazing time with the CCPBPDLC so far!
2025-08-07 20:07 UTC · PC Gamer · Wes Fenlon
There are those games I fondly remember from my school days, and then there are those games I remember being a problem from my school days. Castle Crashers, first released on the Xbox 360 in August 2008, was nearly one of the latter. It took over my college apartment for at least a month, with three or four of us constantly playing and replaying the cartoony co-op beat 'em up to grind XP and level up all of our characters enough to tackle its ludicrous Insane difficulty mode. If it hadn't come out so early in the semester, we probably would've had a real bad time with midterms... Read more.
2025-08-07 00:00 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Good evening all knights and painters! We have a quick hotfix for two issues we ran into during today’s Painter Boss Paradise DLC launch. Our team appreciates everyone who has sent in bug reports for the following issues and hope they didn’t interfere with your DLC gameplay too much! Fixes1. Issued a fix for the “Game is no longer available” error in online games when no custom characters are present 2. Issued a fix for when a player character appears as someone else’s Custom Character when in an online game How are you enjoying the new Painter Boss Paradise DLC? Have you played as Princess He
2025-08-06 17:03 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
From enemies to fellow artists, today we join the Painter Boss in unleashing a FRESH new version of Castle Crashers for you to enjoy! The Painter Boss Paradise DLC includes updated art for all playable characters and weapons, a brand new official character (complete with a new magic moveset!), new map and main menu art, CUSTOM CHARACTER CAPABILITIES, and even more!!! Shall we consider this to be the Painter’s magnum opus? Only time will tell…Don’t know where to start? Too afraid of your own creations? Have no fear! We’ve preloaded an entire crew of DLC characters created by our art team for yo
2025-08-06 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
The Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC is now available for Steam! Check out the official announcement and trailer here, or read on to learn about all of the updates now in Castle Crashers!Global Updates (Classic + Fresh)The following updates are now present in the base game of Castle Crashers, in addition to the DLC version!1. Main Menu Art8 new background vignettes based on lore from the Castle Crashers universe have been added to the main menu! 2. Video Settings: Borderless Window Mode and Max Framerate Windows users now have access to Borderless Window Mode in Video Settings. Window
2025-08-05 23:09 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Wondering when the Painter Boss Paradise DLC launches in your time zone? Paint Junior marked up a global release chart just for the occasion! Click on the map below to expand the image and get excited for the DLC's launch in less than a day!!!We can't wait to see what you've COOKIN up for the Steam Workshop! See you all tomorrow!
2025-07-16 17:29 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4101454/c7f62c0cf35add53b555f52d78dec165a08d43da.png We’re celebrating Painter Boss AND the big chicken all month long! The Behemoth Publisher Sale has landed with sweet deals on all your favorite arcade adventures, including Castle Crashers for 70% off! It’s your last chance to grab the base game at a steep discount before the DLC drops next month. Deals end July 23rd! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4101454/96354d4cd73a6fcbcae4f9deda71de5e1a4c3afb.jpg We're also going to be streaming this Friday, July 18, at 12PM PDT! Join us as we draw and doodle powerful characters ahead of the Paint
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