2026-06-11 17:09 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Greetings, prisoners! Errr, I mean, performers! We have some delightful news straight from the theater to share this fine morning. Remember our last patch, appropriately named the Quality of DEATH update, where we pushed a bunch of legacy fixes and even reintroduced some bugs for our speedrunner friends? Today, we have one more exciting unintended BattleBlock Theater feature returning for our seasoned players – DROPPING!Today’s Big Fix1. Dropping tech has been re-added? Re-fixed? Re-created? Re-masterized? However you want to say it, DROPPING is back!Oh, and there’s a catch! Dropping now works
2026-05-20 17:55 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Last month, we released BattleBlock Theater’s Quality of Life Remaster, welcoming all performers to return center stage and experience the game in its newly shiny, refurbished form. We appreciate all the applause and feedback we’ve received from our seasoned performers, and today we’re excited to present the Quality of DEATH Update, where we BRUTALLY MURDER some of the changes that were implemented in the Remaster! Plus, there’s a ton of bug fixes, hooray!Legacy Fixes All of the below changes have been implemented to make the Remaster play more similarly to the Legacy version. Please stop yell
2026-04-08 21:25 UTC · Community Announcements · TheBehemoth
Greetings, performers! How goes your return to BattleBlock Theater? We're here today with a small but mighty hotfix for something that was a bit out of tune!Today's Big Fix1. BattleBlock Theater no longer crashes when navigating in and out of the Help & Options menus. Sorry about that!We're investigating a variety of different bug reports you've sent in through our Support Site and Discord, so there's more to come! Your efforts to enhance the theatergoing experience for all do not go unnoticed! Onto the next number, then!
2026-04-02 17:46 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Good morning prisone–I mean, performers! How was your first day back roaming BattleBlock Theater’s halls? We have a quick hotfix for you today to address the new decal feature for Custom Heads, in addition to a couple fixes!Fixes1. Fixed an issue with Custom Heads and the new decal feature not properly ignoring the player’s color. 2. Added instructions for the new Custom Head decal feature. 2. Fixed an issue with Steam Deck, Mac, and Linux users getting stuck when attempting to exit a Gift Shop. 3. Fixed an issue where the 10-second countdown timer occasionally persisted after both Co-op users
2026-04-01 18:10 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
The day we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! And we didn’t fool you! Or did we? I guess we’ll have to wait and see if the game implodes or something! But yes, you heard that right – BattleBlock Theater’s Quality of Life Remaster is here as a FREE update to all who own the game already! I bet you’re all very excited to see Hatty Hattington again, but in case you want to learn more about what’s been happening to BattleBlock Theater behind the curtains, you’re in the right place. Behold your eyes to the dazzling “Quality of Life Remaster Changelog!” Please note that this game was recod
2026-03-19 17:27 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
Are your pants buckled yet?! BattleBlock Theater’s Quality of Life Remaster releases as a free update to the game on Wednesday, April 1st! No, this isn’t some sick April Fool’s prank. The renovated, RE-CODED theater is almost ready to make its grand return! Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out the recent announcement stream here for all the juicy details: Before we get this show on the road, there’s some important information we want to share with the community before we undergo some technical maintenance in preparation for the update. Let’s get to it, then! Leaderboard ResetBattleBloc
2025-03-13 17:27 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
It’s time to hop around like an Easter Bunny to save Hatty and friends! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/fa82698b629be7ef50bd4fe8146aed21d124a6cb.gif Well, maybe our hopping needs to be a bit more coordinated if we ever want to leave this place... Now through March 20th, you can grab any of The Behemoth’s co-op titles at a discount thanks to the Steam Spring Sale! BattleBlock Theater - 70% off! Grab BattleBlock Theater for a hefty discount before it receives a major quality of life overhaul! https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/ Castle Crashers - 70% off! For those who prefe
2025-02-10 18:29 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/55ffca71dc7662f0d7d6864c7e04364488c8692a.jpg Now through February 17th, you can grab all of The Behemoth's co-op games for a discount thanks to the Steam Couch Co-op Sale! As announced in our Behemoth Roadmap, BattleBlock Theater will eventually receive a major quality of life overhaul here on Steam, so it's the perfect time to grab the game for any friends you want to take through the shiny new theater! BattleBlock Theater - 70% off! https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/9cc6c6c8709bd97fb9d579ebe782295afd0b1019.gif
2024-12-19 18:01 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/4593a47c4d0950a327f4f3e840b5df71381ff1ae.jpg Behemoth Santa is here with some Steam Winter Sale deals, including 60% off BattleBlock Theater! It’s time to warm up with some classic co-optional shenanigans! Your favorite theater awaits… BattleBlock Theater - 70% Off https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/9cc6c6c8709bd97fb9d579ebe782295afd0b1019.gif Castle Crashers - 90% Off https://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/Castle_Crashers/ Pit People - 60% Off https://store.steampowered.com/app/291860/Pit_People/ Alien Homini
2024-11-27 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · The Behemoth 2D
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/0243705d6f7e9bd6e7174ade8feb0afb30d3e381.png Ready the lights, the show is about to begin! There’s no better way to find shelter from the breezy autumn sunshine and flowers than in a booby-trapped prison theater run by technological felines happy cat friends! BattleBlock Theater is 70% off during the Steam Autumn Sale, now until December 4th! BattleBlock Theater - 70% Off https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/ The Ultra Baby's Co-op Chaos Pack which gives you TWO copies of BattleBlock Theater, one for you and one for a frenemy, is 66% off! If
2024-10-31 20:25 UTC · Community Announcements · Behemoth Chicken #3257682387462
Happy Halloween AND BEHEMOTH LAUNCH DAY! What does this adorable game have to do with Halloween you might ask? This. This right here: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/2ac2dbae16ab40a321f92079e29424092db71ca8.jpg Truly terrifying. BEHEMOTH is now live on Steam with a 10% off launch discount! Are you ready to become THE chicken, dodge n’ flap your way through the skies, secure your flock in the nest, and collect as much candy corn as chickenly possible? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3027260/BEHEMOTH/ We made BEHEMOTH to celebrate the twenty-one years we’ve spent making games, and it’s all thanks
2024-10-24 16:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Behemoth Chicken #3257682387462
Chick-or-treat! We reached deep into our candy bowl for Halloween this year and found an egg – an egg that is hatching into Game 6 in only SEVEN days! Presenting BEHEMOTH - an adorably infinite, “dodge n’ flap” arcade game, releasing Thursday, October 31st, right here on Steam. Become THE chicken! I heard from our feline security detail that this game is perfect for a palate cleanser after an encore… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oHnqCBELU8 Wishlist it here to be notified when you can become BEHEMOTH: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3027260/BEHEMOTH/ For more information, check out our b
2024-07-27 17:57 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Hearing about Battleblock Theater is my Ratatouille food critic moment. I haven't thought about it in nigh on a decade, but seeing Hatty Hattington's square head and crying eyes takes me back to a much simpler time. Games dared to be weird, colorful, and embraced couch co-op in a way modern PC games typically don't. Sure, you can find each of those elements across countless releases these days, but how often do all three come together as one? Just thinking about Battleblock Theater has me wanting to jump back in, so it's lucky then that there's a massive Steam discount and impending free updat
2024-07-26 17:47 UTC · Community Announcements · Behemoth Chicken #3257682387462
Calling all prisoner friends and feline security to return back to the theater! The show must go on, yes? BattleBlock Theater is soon receiving a quality of life update here on Steam! This free update will include: Enhanced rendering – no more crunchy compression and much higher resolution! Lightning fast frame rates, limited only by your monitor’s capability! Higher audio bitrates for delicious sound! Various bug fixes and overall enhancements, hooray! Support for more controller types! These changes could only mean one thing, right? We are preparing BattleBlock Theater for a modern console r
2024-07-22 17:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Behemoth Chicken #3257682387462
You'll be fine, so long as you find the gems and don't die! BattleBlock Theater is 70% off during The Behemoth Publisher Sale! Will you return to the theater? Maybe you'll force a friend to come along this time? Well, good luck now! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5795738/ff54378934419dad66d241a67c5e57ece6d91410.gif This week we all things big chicken with every single game on sale digitally and a Behemoth Roadmap stream presentation on YouTube and Twitch this Friday, July 26th, at 10:00 AM PDT! The short broadcast will feature a handful of announcements spanning our entire gaming library and beyond - trus
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