Castle Crashers®

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%2012

The verdict

A charming, chaotic co-op beat 'em up with great art, humor and replayability. Skip it if you'll mostly play online or solo, or want deep combat.

Great for

Friends or families who want silly, nostalgic couch co-op and unlocking lots of characters

Main risk

Online multiplayer lag/desync and repetitive button-mashing combat if you lack local friends

What players love

Best played with friends in co-op

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews

“local Coop was still a thing and it was a blast playing this with 3 of your friends”
Steam review · 17.7 h played ↗

“Still one of the best couch co-op beat 'em ups around.”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗

“Playing this alone is boring, but with a friend you can punch for stealing your princess, it becomes much more fun.”
Steam review · translated · 770.2 h played ↗

Strong nostalgia and timeless classic

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“STILL one of the best beat'em up games I've ever played.”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗

“Every time I play it, I feel the same childlike delight as when I was a kid.”
Steam review · translated · 14.4 h played ↗

Painter Boss Paradise DLC and custom characters

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“grab the painter boss paradise DLC. the community has built out an enormous roster of character variants”
Steam review · 7 h played ↗

“The update definitely revived the game. It gives players a ton of room to play around”
Steam review · 118.2 h played ↗

Charming art style, humor and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The art style is one of my favorite things about it, it has so much charm.”
Steam review · 12.7 h played ↗

“The art style and music are also very enjoyable.”
Steam review · 10.8 h played ↗

High replayability with many characters to unlock

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“The replay value is huge! So many characters, so many ways to play.”
Steam review · 35.4 h played ↗

“Once you beat the game, Insane Mode keeps the fun going”
Steam review · 82.2 h played ↗

Simple but satisfying combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“The combat is simple but satisfying, the humor never takes itself too seriously”
Steam review · 151.6 h played ↗

“The combat mechanics are great: each character has their own abilities you can develop as you level.”
Steam review · translated · 28.7 h played ↗

What players complain about

Stunlocks, cheap enemies and frustrating bosses/minigames

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“stunlock simulator. literally every enemy and boss can stunlock you forever.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

“Back off barbarian is peak bad video game design”
Steam review · 47.4 h played ↗

Repetitive, shallow button-mashing combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“It's literally just button mashing and jugging enemies. There is nothing else here.”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗

“Your whole arsenal boils down to a light-heavy attack string repeated throughout the whole game.”
Steam review · translated · 4.2 h played ↗

Laggy, desyncing online multiplayer

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“The game forces everyone's connection to sync together. This means if one friend starts lagging, the entire game freezes and stutters for everyone else too.”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗

“this game has some really bad desync To a point in which you're practically just playing single player.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗

“Multiplayer still has half a second of input lag.”
Steam review · translated · 1.5 h played ↗

Aggressive DLC ads and paywalled new art/workshop

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“This game wants me to buy DLC when I launch it, on the main menu and even in the pause menu.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“after making a seemingly in-game selection it added two items in my Steam Cart!!!”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

Save progress lost or unreliable

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“The autosaving is trash, i could watch it save, and exit to main menu and go back in without closing the game and i have to re do maps over and over.”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗

“THE GAME SAVES STRANGELY and all my grind and progress simply vanished.”
Steam review · translated · 3.7 h played ↗

Severe FPS drops and slowdowns

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“after a level or two the frame rate drops to less than 10 fps and requires a PC restart”
Steam review · 2.7 h played ↗

“after like halfway through a level it starts taking whole seconds per frame”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSMicrosoft® Windows® 10

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2GHz+ or better

Memory8 GB RAM

Graphics2GB RAM

Storage512 MB HD space

OSMicrosoft® Windows® 10

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2GHz+ or better

Memory8 GB RAM

Graphics2GB RAM

Storage512 MB HD space

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