Castle Crashers News

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!

[h2]Castle Crashers - 70% off![/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/Castle_Crashers/

[h2]BattleBlock Theater - 70% off![/h2]
You can also get BattleBlock for a hefty discount before it receives a major quality of life overhaul!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/

[h2]Pit People - 60% off![/h2]
Feeling up for a wacky hexagonal turn-based adventure? Have we got THE co-op strategy game for you:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/291860/Pit_People/

[h2]Alien Hominid HD - 25% off![/h2]
Get the original Alien Hominid game that started it all for this big chicken!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285360/Alien_Hominid_HD/

[h2]Alien Hominid Invasion - 25% off![/h2]
Get our newest Alien Hominid game, a four-player re-imagining of the classic run ‘n’ gun!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843200/Alien_Hominid_Invasion

[h2]The Extra Terrestrial Bundle[/h2]
Or get both of our alien games in one out-of-this-world bundle!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34943/Alien_Hominid_The_Extra_Terrestrial/

[h2]BEHEMOTH (now with Challenge Mode!)[/h2]
Our newest title isn’t 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/

• 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!
  

[h3]The Behemoth’s here to sprinkle some luck and cheer–when things are otherwise grey and drear! [/h3]

[h2]Can you make Green Knight even fresher than THIS?[/h2]





Happy March, chicken-friends! We’ve been going full-speed on development for the upcoming Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC, but it seemed like an appropriate time to flex our artsy wings.

So we’re here to kick off a classic Behemoth art contest with The Face of Castle Crashers: our backflipping, allergic-to-juggling fiend, GREEN KNIGHT.

[h3]Entries are being accepted now until March 17, 2025, 11:59PM PT.[/h3]

We'll be picking three lucky winners of a Green Knight Figurine!

This is him. Banana for scale. Banana not included in prize.

For full rules and information on how to enter, visit our blog post!

Take me to the blog!


[h2]Excited for the new DLC? Us too! And you can wishlist it RIGHT NOW on Steam to be notified via email the moment it releases early this summer!
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133920/Castle_Crashers__Painter_Boss_Paradise/

The official Steam page for the Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC is now live! Go visit it to wishlist the DLC! It’s happening!!!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133920/Castle_Crashers__Painters_Boss_Paradise/

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, and 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!
  

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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!

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...

[h2]Castle Crashers is 90% off (again!!!) thanks to Steam's Couch Co-op Sale![/h2]
Grab the game for CHEAP before the Painter Boss Paradise DLC lands this year!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/Castle_Crashers/

[h2]BattleBlock Theater - 70% off![/h2]
You can also get BattleBlock for a hefty discount before it receives a major quality of life overhaul!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/

[h2]Pit People - 60% off![/h2]
May I interest you in some hexagonal co-op whimsy?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/291860/Pit_People/

[h2]Alien Hominid HD - 25% off![/h2]
Get the original Alien Hominid game that started it all for this big chicken!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285360/Alien_Hominid_HD/

[h2]Alien Hominid Invasion - 25% off![/h2]
Get our newest Alien Hominid game, a four-player re-imagining of the classic run ‘n’ gun!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843200/Alien_Hominid_Invasion

[h2]The Extra Terrestrial Bundle[/h2]
Or get both of our alien games in one out-of-this-world bundle!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34943/Alien_Hominid_The_Extra_Terrestrial/

[h2]BEHEMOTH (now with Challenge Mode!)[/h2]
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/

[h2]Happy New Year, knights![/h2]
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!

[h2]Custom Characters[/h2]
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:



[h2]Main Menu Art and DLC UI Update[/h2]
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!

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