How many people are playing Castle Crashers® right now?

287 people are playing Castle Crashers® on Steam right now, making it the 1001st most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 636 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is Castle Crashers®'s all-time peak player count?

Castle Crashers®'s highest concurrent player count on Steam is 15,997, reached in June 2014.

Is Castle Crashers® good? What do Steam reviews say?

96% of 110,228 Steam user reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive).

How much does Castle Crashers® cost on Steam?

Castle Crashers® costs $14.99 on Steam (US).

Does Castle Crashers® work on Steam Deck?

Castle Crashers® is Verified for Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Castle Crashers®

by The Behemoth · Released Sep 26, 2012

Steam Deck VerifiedLinux & Deck: Platinum

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Players now

#1,001

287

▲ 8.3%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

96% positive

Overwhelmingly Positive110,228 reviews

Owners (est.)5M–10M

24h peak

636

Highest seen15,997

Jun 201412.4 years ago

Price on Steam

$14.99

Lowest ever $14.99 Oct 2026

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Players +8.3% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 11:55 UTC · tracking since 2012-09-01

Concurrent players

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Media & details

Screenshots, achievements, specs and price history from Steam.

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Where to buy

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Steam Official

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Editions and bundles on Steam

Castle CrashersEdition
$14.99
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Can't Stop Laughing BundleEdition
$24.99
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Castle Crashers COMPLETE BundleBundle
$17.81
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Castle Crashers and Pit PeopleBundle
$29.56
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The Behemoth's BestBundle
$82.71
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Reviews

96% positive of 110,228 · Overwhelmingly Positive · Live from Steam

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Steam Deck

Works great on Steam Deck. Results from Valve's own testing.

Steam Deck Verified

✓Default controller config fully functional
✓Controller glyphs match deck device
✓Interface text is legible
✓Default configuration is performant

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Patches & builds

Every build released on Steam for this game since we started tracking it, with the developer's patch notes. Updated within minutes of each new build.

Patch notes

Jul 13, 2026
PatchPainter Boss Paradise Patch 3.3
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 …
Jun 24, 2026
PatchPainter Boss Paradise Patch 3.2
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…
Nov 3, 2025
PatchPainter Boss Paradise Patch 3.1 – The CheekFix
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. Cheek…
Aug 18, 2025
PatchPainter Boss Paradise Hotfix 3
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!Tod…
Aug 8, 2025
PatchPainter Boss Paradise Hotfix 2
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 up…
Aug 7, 2025
PatchPainter Boss Paradise Launch Hotfix
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 you…

Other news (14)

Nov 24, 2025
Nominate Castle Crashers for Steam’s Labor of Love Award!
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 …
Oct 16, 2025
Enter The Behemoth's annual Halloween art contest! 🎃
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 Stea…
Sep 26, 2025
Castle Crashers turns 13 on Steam! 🎂
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 mo…
Aug 13, 2025
Join us for a Painter Boss Paradise stream tomorrow!
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!!!
Aug 7, 2025
I cannot believe one of the best indie games of all time just got new DLC 17 years later
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 ap…
Aug 6, 2025
Painter Boss Paradise is now available!

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History

What changed on Steam for this game since we started following it: prices and sales, builds, name, release date and review score.

Review score: 96% on 2026-11-01 → 96% today (110,228 reviews)

Oct 31, 2026Price$14.99

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DLC

3 items on Steam, newest first.

Castle Crashers - Painter Boss Paradise
$3.9991% positive
Castle Crashers - Blacksmith Pack
$0.9997% positive
Castle Crashers - Pink Knight Pack
$0.9998% positive

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Trading cards

6 cards. Buying one of each costs $0.47, which crafts this game's badge; the foil set costs $1.64.

Cheapest badges

Beefy Sandwich$0.07

Clown Princess Dance Party$0.08

Frost King Spotting$0.08

Corn Boss Popcorn Roast$0.08

Pink Knight vs. Painter Boss$0.08

Wizard Battle$0.08

Foil cards (6)

Frost King Spotting$0.19

Clown Princess Dance Party$0.20

Corn Boss Popcorn Roast$0.20

Pink Knight vs. Painter Boss$0.21

Beefy Sandwich$0.38

Prices checked 2026-11-02, lowest Steam Community Market listing in US dollars.

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Demo

Free on Steam. The demo has its own app, so its players are counted separately.

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Demo players now: 4
24h peak: 5
Highest seen: 8
Demo : full game now: 1 : 72

Castle Crashers® player count and quick facts

How many people are playing Castle Crashers® right now?: 287 people are playing Castle Crashers® on Steam right now, making it the 1001st most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 636 players. The number updates every few minutes.
What is Castle Crashers®'s all-time peak player count?: Castle Crashers®'s highest concurrent player count on Steam is 15,997, reached in June 2014.
Is Castle Crashers® good? What do Steam reviews say?: 96% of 110,228 Steam user reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive).
How much does Castle Crashers® cost on Steam?: Castle Crashers® costs $14.99 on Steam (US).
Does Castle Crashers® work on Steam Deck?: Castle Crashers® is Verified for Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Live data from Steam, tracked by SteamPlayerBase.