Castle Crashers®

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 Options section at the bottom. Copy/Paste -nopausewhenfocuslost in the field.Close the window and experience non-pausing when focus is lost in Castle Crashers like never before! Alt-tab feeling a sense of WONDER and EXCITEMENT! Painter Boss ParadiseFixed the King's Fresh character art when facing away from the screen.The Beefy Boulder Thrower™ near the start of Full Moon will now use proper Fresh art and replacement skins.Fixed Arena banners being invisible for custom skins in Beefy mode.Fixed Arena banners occasionally sorting incorrectly behind custom skins.Fixed a Fresh art visual issu

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-to-talk to left analog stick similar to Windows.Fixed rumble on PS4 and PS5 controllers. Painter Boss ParadiseScaled down Back Off Barbarian Fresh character art .Skeleton eyes are now purple in Back Off Barbarian.Fixed an issue with custom heads being flipped backwards during certain animation sequences.Fixed an issue with the Necromancer’s skeleton magic so that it uses Fresh art.Paint Jr. no longer does the eyeball emote when failing the catapult in Flower Field. GeneralAdjusted the Catfish and Cyclops attack hitboxes back to their original rangeFixed some offset collision near the Swolien in

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 vibration/rumble for controllers on MacFixed an issue with Steam Input recommended configs not working with MacInputFixed an issue with push-to-talk key not working when there are only gamepad playersFixed inverted left analog stick for PS5 controllers when Steam Input is not enabledFixed an issue with Steam Input not working when controller is plugged in after bootAdded native support for PS5 DualSense controllersPainter Boss ParadiseFixed an issue with re-uploaded characters not appearing in online gamesFixed visual bug with dear Herbert’s portrait (we love you Herbert)Fixed various vis

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